[Commlist] 17 Fully funded 4-year PhD positions in Political Science and Sociology

The Department of Political Science and Sociology at the Scuola Normale 
Superiore in Florence, Italy, announces 17 doctoral positions (13 in 
Political Science and Sociology and 4 in Transnational Governance). Each 
4-year fellowship includes free tuition, housing, stipend, and a 
research budget.

Applicants whose research is in political communication and in the 
sociology of communication and culture are encouraged to apply.
For information about how to apply please visit:

https://www.sns.it/en/admissions/phd/how-to-apply-for-the-post-graduate-course. 


The PhD course in Political Science and Sociology of the Scuola Normale 
Superiore builds upon a methodologically pluralist approach and a 
multidisciplinary nature, combining structured teaching with close 
supervision activities by a dedicated faculty. The main research areas 
revolve around the following topics.

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.

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 devoted to the European Union); 
the structure of regimes and dynamics of international politics (not 
only foreign policy and defence, but also migration, social, public 
health, educational, energy and economic development policies).

Comparative politics and society. This area is oriented towards the 
comparative analysis of a set of major politico-institutional processes, 
focusing on the interactions between political parties, interest groups, 
civil society and public opinion. Classical comparative analysis, based 
on cross-national comparison, is backed up by the study of processes 
which are territorially multilevel, such as Europeanization and 
globalization, in the political ‒ but also economic, social, and 
cultural ‒ spheres.



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