[ecrea] 9 Fully funded PhD positions in political science & sociology for the academic year 2017-2018 (Scuola Normale Superiore)

9 fully funded 4-years PhD positions in POLITICAL SCIENCE and SOCIOLOGY 
for the academic year 2017-2018. SCUOLA NORMALE SUPERIORE, Florence.

POLITICAL COMMUNICATION is one of the focus of attention of the PhD 
programme and cross-cuts the following research areas:

1.       DEMOCRACY AND SOCIAL MOVEMENTS. In this area, sociological and 
political science competences converge around political sociology, which 
bridges the two disciplines through its main focus on the reciprocal 
influence of political and social transformations. Social movements, 
civil society, participative democracy, political violence, new media 
and conflicts are the main concepts addressed in the teaching and 
research activities. In the best European tradition, the methodological 
approach will be sensitive to the historical, institutional and cultural 
specificities, but also oriented to the development of theory.

2.   COMPARATIVE/GLOBAL PUBLIC POLICY AND INTERNATIONAL GOVERNANCE. This 
area addresses, in an innovative way, themes such as the comparative 
analysis of public policies; the global dimension of public policies; 
the multilevel governance of public policies, that is the structural and 
processual characteristics that influence how public policies are 
decided and implemented in multilevel institutional processes (from the 
sub-national to the national, and from the supra-national to the 
international ones, with due attention to the European Union); the 
structure of regimes and dynamics of international politics (not only 
foreign policy and defence, but also migration policies, social 
policies, public health policies, educational policies, energies 
policies and policies of economic development).
3.       COMPARATIVE POLITICS AND SOCIETY. This area is oriented towards 
the comparative analysis of some main politico-institutional processes, 
focusing on the interactions between political parties, interest groups, 
civil society and the public opinion. The classical comparative 
analysis, based on cross-national comparison, is backed up by the study 
of processes that are territorially multilevel, such as Europeanization 
and globalization, in the political, but also economic, social, and 
cultural spheres.

-    The grant is of FOUR YEARS.
-    FULL COVERAGE of research expenses (conferences, summer schools, 
research periods abroad) is provided.
-    The Faculty is EXCLUSIVELY DEVOTED to PhD teaching and supervision.
-    The activities will be held at the seat of FLORENCE of the Scuola 
Normale Superiore (Institute of Human and Social Sciences).

For further information visit:
http://phd.sns.it/call-2016-2017/#
http://phd.sns.it/how-to-apply

DEADLINE:
20 February 2017

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