cv - Zoltán Fazekas

Zolt´an Fazekas
Department of Political Science and Public Management
University of Southern Denmark
Campusvej 55 / 5230 Odense / Denmark
T +4551362093 B zoltan.fazekas@gmail.com
m http://zfazekas.github.io
Employment
University of Southern Denmark, Department of Political Science and Public Management
Postdoctoral researcher, December 2012-Present.
Visiting research stay:
Department of Political Science, Penn State.
University of Vienna, Department of Methods in the Social Sciences
Marie Curie Early Stage Researcher, April 2010-November 2012.
Education
University of Vienna, Department of Methods in the Social Sciences
Ph.D, Political Science (with Distinction), 2012.
Visiting research stays:
Mannheimer Zentrum fr Europische Sozialforschung, University of Mannheim.
Nuffield College – Politics and International Relations, Oxford University.
Kieskompas Netherlands.
Central European University, Department of Political Science
M.A., Political Science (with Distinction), 2009.
Outstanding Academic Achievement Award & Academic Pro-Rector’s Excellence Award.
Babes-Bolyai University, Faculty of European Studies
M.A., European Studies, 2008.
B.A., Economics, 2006.
Publications
Articles
Larsen, E.G. & Fazekas, Z. Accepted. Media content and political behavior in observational research: A critical
assessment. British Journal of Political Science.
Fazekas, Z., Wall, M., & Krouwel, A.P.M. Forthcoming. Is it what you say, or how you say it? An experimental
analysis of the effects of invitation wording for online. International Journal of Public Opinion Research.
Fazekas, Z. & M´eder, Zs. (2013). Proximity and directional theory compared: taking discriminant positions
seriously in multi-party systems. Electoral Studies 32 (4):693–707.
Littvay, L., Popa, S.A., & Fazekas, Z. (2013). Validity of survey nonresponse indicators: a behavior genetic
approach. Social Science Quarterly 94 (2):569–589.
Fazekas, Z., & Littvay, L. (2012). Choosing sides: The genetics of why we go with the loudest. Journal of
Theoretical Politics 24 (3):389–408.
Fazekas, Z. (2011). Institutional effects on the presence of trade unions at the workplace: Moderation in a
multilevel setting. European Journal of Industrial Relations 17 (2):153–169.
Chapters
Fazekas, Z., & Hatemi, P.K. Forthcoming. The integration of genetic and environmental approaches to political
science: Methodological advances and future applications. In Emerging Trends in the Social and Behavioral
Sciences, eds. Scott, R.A., & Kosslyn, S.M. Oxford: Wiley. [PDF]
Fazekas, Z., & Weith, P. (2011). Lies and selective memory: Explaining the differences in misreporting between
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first and second order elections. In Structures and Futures of Europe, eds. Arato, K., Enyedi, Zs., & Lux, A.,
153–179. Budapest: Ad Librum. [PDF]
Working papers
Hatemi, P.K., & Fazekas, Z. Combining inherent preferences and social forces to understand political inequalities. Invited as chapter in Resources, Engagement, Recruitment, submitted to Temple University Press, editor:
Klofstad, C.
Vegetti, F., Fazekas, Z., & M´eder, Zs. Sorting your way out: perceived party positions, political knowledge
and polarization. Invited for Special Issue submission for Acta Politica. Editors: Banducci, S., Kritzinger, S., &
Giebler, H.
Hansen, M.E., & Fazekas, Z. Electoral and parliamentary incentives for position taking: Exploring absence in
the United Kingdom House of Commons, 1997 – 2010.
Larsen, E.G., & Fazekas, Z. Explaining how the mass media select and report political information: Evidence
from opinion polls. To be presented at the Midwest Political Science Association’s Annual Meeting, 2015.
Note: papers under review/revised and resubmitted not listed here in order to maintain some level of anonymity.
Project
membership
Social media in the 2014 European Parliament Elections (co-ordinated by S.A. Popa & H. Schmitt, University
of Mannheim), 2014-.
Intra-party politics (led by Z.D. Greene, University of Mannheim), 2014-.
Invited Talks
MZES Colloquium, University of Mannheim, 2013.
Political Behavior Research Group, Central European University, 2011, 2013.
European Association of Personality Psychology Annual Conference, 2012.
‘Personality and politics”, Centre for Political Research at Sciences Po, 2012.
Conference
Presentations
Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting 2011, 2012 (+ discussant), 2013, 2014, 2015 (+ discussant).
ECPR Research Sessions, 2014.
European Political Science Association Annual Meeting 2011, 2012 (+discussant), 2013.
Central European University’s Annual Doctoral Conference 2009, 2010, 2012.
International Society of Political Psychology Networking Conference (+discussant), 2011.
Elections, Public Opinion and Parties Conference, 2011.
European Survey Association Annual Meeting, 2011.
International Society of Political Psychology Annual Meeting, 2011.
PIREDEU Final User Community Conference, 2010.
Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Labour Studies Workshop “The Demise of Collective Organization in Europe”, 2009.
Teaching
Graduate level
University of Southern Denmark
Party competition, Spring 2015.
Advanced applied statistics (with S.W. Hansen), Spring 2015.
Introduction in applied statistics for social scientists, Fall 2014.
Automated text analysis (with R. Klemmensen), Spring 2014.
University of Vienna
Quantitative methods for political scientists (with M.E. Hansen), Spring 2012.
ECPR Methods School
Applied multilevel modeling, Summer School 2015, Invited.
Applied multilevel modeling, Summer School 2013, Course materials.
Introduction to R, Winter School 2013, Course materials.
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Additional
training
Lecturer training program, University of Southern Denmark, 2014-2015.
International workshop on statistical genetics and methodology of twin and family studies, Institute for Behavioral Genetics University of Colorado Boulder, 2012, 2014.
Advanced genetic epidemiology statistical workshop, Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics, 2012.
ELECDEM Workshop
Comparative research methods: Analysing cross-national and multi-level data in the social sciences,
2012.
Advanced techniques for political communication research: Content Analysis, 2011.
Electoral survey design, 2010.
Essex Summer School in Social Science Data Analysis
Non-parametric and semi-parametric methods, 2011.
Maximum likelihood and limited dependent variable models, 2010.
GESIS Spring school: Categorical latent variable models and extended latent class analyses, 2011.
Workshop in Game theory, University of Vienna, 2010.
Languages
Hungarian (mother tongue), Romanian (native), English (fluent, working language), German (intermediate),
Danish (lower-intermediate).
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