Research in the Department currently focuses on several research projects, each of which involves researchers and professors from different backgrounds, working together with an interdisciplinary approach. Research feeds into quality teaching, and research teams also promote interdisciplinary seminars in the following areas:
Forms and History of Democracy: Participatory, Deliberative and Democratization Processes
Political systems, political communication and the public sphere: history, characteristics, transformations
Institutions, non-European societies, international relations in the contemporary world
Labor and enterprise in contemporary society
European Studies: legality, fundamental rights, economics and policies
Public policies and socio-economic phenomena: methods of empirical analysis and evaluation
Social policies, corporate social responsibility and the third sector
Quality of institutions, public ethics and anti-corruption policies
Gender Studies
Migration studies
Social and Political Theory
Territories, sustainable development, tourism and global food
The translation of political cultures, thought and communication