The Doctoral School of Political Science at the University of Bucharest is delighted to announce the second edition of the International Interdisciplinary Conference “Challenges of Transition: The Post-communist Experience(s). Following the success of last year’s edition which was attended by over 80 participants from throughout the world, we invite doctoral students, researchers and faculty staff from the field of social sciences to participate with papers on the following topics (and not only):
theories of transition and processes of democratization;
political elites and anthropologic studies, finances, national and world economy;
socio-economic policies;
public administration and sociological studies;
party systems and electoral systems;
political elections and electoral campaigns;
the legal system, gender equality, equal opportuinities studies and human rights;
political culture and civil society;
political representation and mass-media;
international relations and regional studies;
security studies.
The event will take place on May, 30th – 31st 2014 at the Faculty of Political Science of the University of Bucharest (no. 8, Spiru Haret Street). During the closing ceremony, each of the participants will receive a certificate of attendance issued by the Faculty of Political Science of the University of Bucharest. Moreover, pending evaluation of the Scientific Committee, the best papers will be published in a collective volume. A poster session is also available if you are unable to attend the conference in person.
Please send your proposals by
April, 27th 2014, written in English to doctoralconference@fspub.unibuc.ro. They must contain the name and institutional affiliation of the author/authors, the title of the paper and an abstract of 1.500 – 2.000 characters, along with 5 key-words.
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