Marina Popescu
Associate Professor
Doctoral School of Political Science, Public Policy, and Int
Central European University
Hungary
Biography
Marina obtained her PhD from the University of Essex in 2008 where she previously worked on the project "Elections and Political Transformation in Post Communist Europe." Before joining CEU, she was a British Academy Post-Doctoral Fellow at the University of Essex with a project on mass media and democracy (mediasystemsineurope.org). She previously taught at the Department of Political Science, School of Public Policy, University College London and at the Eotvos Lorand University in Budapest. She is also director of Median Research Centre in Bucharest – a not-for-profit non-partisan think tank. The most recent project of MRC is the information and discussion portal openpolitics.ro that includes the vote advice application testvot.eu developed by MRC for all national level elections since 2008 (parliamentary, presidential and EP) in Romania and the 2009 parliamentary elections in Moldova. Currently on leave.
Research Interest
Political Science
Publications
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Tóka G, Popescu M. How Do Media Systems Influence Citizens’ Political Knowledge and the Social Inequalities of Knowledge?. In: Joint Sessions of Workshops of the European Consortium for Political Research in Antwerp, Belgium, 10-15 April 2012.; 2012.
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Tóka G, Popescu M, Millard F. The Impact of Preference Voting Systems on Women’s Representation and the Legitimation of Quota-based Nomination Results. In: Joint Sessions of Workshops of the European Consortium for Political Research in Mainz, Germany, 11-16 March 2013.; 2013.
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Tóka G, Popescu M. News Media Partisanship in a Cross-National Perspective. In: “Parties and Partisans: Explaining Continuity and Change in Party Systems†conference at the Juan March Institute, Madrid, Spain, 8-9 February 2013.; 2013.
