The Department of Political Science is organizing a public competition for the position of Assistant Professor (PhD) within the department.

The Assistant Professor position, no. 24 (tenure-track/permanent) includes teaching and research activities specific to the subjects covered in the standard teaching load. Regarding teaching responsibilities, the position includes a number of courses — under different titles — most of which fall within the field of political behavior (e.g. Parties and Electoral Systems; Political Sociology; Political Behavior and Rational Choice Theory; Governance and Government Studies; Applied Ethics), as well as a seminar in Introduction to Political Science and a seminar in Introduction to Research Methodology in the Social Sciences.

The competition consists of:

  1. Evaluation of the individual application file
  2. Oral examination – January 26, 2023, 12:00 PMLocation: Str. General Traian Moșoiu, no. 71, Cluj-Napoca, Cluj County, Room IV/2
  3. Written examination – January 26, 2023, 1:00 PMSame location: Room IV/2

For the oral exam, the topic selected by the competition committee is:

The concept of citizenship in relation to polities, nations, societies, people

General bibliography:

Kymlicka, Will. Multicultural Citizenship: A Liberal Theory of Minority Rights. Clarendon Press, 1996.

Castles, Stephen. Globalization and the Ambiguities of National Citizenship. In Blurred Boundaries: Migration, Ethnicity, Citizenship, pp. 223–244. Routledge, 2018.

Castles, Stephen & Alastair Davidson. Citizenship and Migration: Globalization and the Politics of Belonging. Routledge, 2020.

Kymlicka, Will. Multicultural Citizenship. In The New Social Theory Reader, pp. 270–280. Routledge, 2020.