Eva Zemandl
Visiting Professor
Department of Political Science
Central European University
Hungary
Biography
Eva Zemandl received her B.A. in International Studies/Economics at Seattle University and her M.A. in European Public Policy at the University of Kent’s Brussels School of International Studies. In 2017, she received her PhD in Political Science at CEU, defending her thesis analyzing the behavior of political appointees and their influence on organizational change in independent organizations. She is currently a lecturer in qualitative methods at CEU’s political science department and on a post-doc research assignment at CEU’s Center for European Union Research, working on the European Commission supported H2020 project ETHOS—a theory of European justice. Her past research focused on European soft governance and social policies, including in Central and Eastern Europe. Her previous experience includes working in the NGO sectors in both Seattle and Brussels in international trade and business, social and employment policy, and new towns/pilot cities.
Research Interest
Political Science.
Publications
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2nd Role of State in Varieties of Capitalism (Budapest, 10 –11 November 2016), co-authored paper with Dr. Pinar Domez (Central European University): Post-2008 transformations and restructuring in Hungary and Turkey: Challenging mainstream explanations.
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Interpretive Policy Analysis Conference (Leicester, UK, 4-7 July 2017), panel on “The instabilities of expertise: power and knowledge in populist timesâ€: Populist servants or professional guardians? The case of the National Bank of Hungary.
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Serbian Political Science Association Annual Conference (Belgrade, Serbia, 23 –24 September 2017), co-authored paper with Dr. Dora Piroska (Corvinus University, Budapest):De-Europeanization and its contestations: The politics of central bank independence and school (de)segregation in Hungary.
