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