Carsten Q. Schneider
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Carsten Q. Schneider
@cqschneider.bsky.social

Interim President and Rector, Central European University (CEU) |
Political Science prof, political regimes, methods (QCA) | here in private and as ex-vintner 🍷

Political science 35%
Sociology 21%
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Follow the roundtable, co-hosted with our journal, the @revdem2020.bsky.social, featuring László Bruszt, Pedro Abramovay, @cqschneider.bsky.social, Fiona Tregenna, and Zsuzsanna Szelényi!

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Crisis and Renewal: Rethinking Democracy in the 21st Century
YouTube video by CEU Democracy Institute
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Join our panel on 6/10!

Universities Under Pressure: Academic Freedom in an Age of Authoritarianism and Human Rights Frameworks

Discussants:
@cqschneider.bsky.social, Kirsten R. Leyer @cengizgunay.bsky.social

In cooperation with @weareceu.bsky.social

Register 👇
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My book is precisely about this questions. Summarizing it in one toot is challenging …:-)

I warmly invite everyone in our community to reach out, share your ideas, and join me in shaping CEU’s future together.

As I take on this responsibility, I am reflecting on the privilege of working alongside colleagues, students, and @alumni who are deeply committed to our shared mission. I look forward to listening, learning, and helping CEU continue to thrive in a rapidly changing world.

CEU has been part of my life for over 20 years. It is more than an academic home; it is a community that has shaped my thinking, my values, and my sense of purpose. It is a place where conversations spark change and research meets real-world challenges.

Today, I begin my journey as Interim President and Rector of @Central European University, a role that inspires both gratitude and responsibility.

As we said in 2017: if academic freedom is under attack in Hungary and we don’t fight back, it will be under attack sooner than later in other countries, too. #CEU #Harvard

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/08/u...
Harvard’s Battle Is Familiar to a University the Right Forced into Exile
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Reposted by Achim Kemmerling

Interested in how illiberal public rhetoric of right-wing leaders related to socio-economic inequality? Read our latest article to find out more.
“Strongmen” Don't Redistribute: Illiberal Leaders on the Right and Worsening Economic Inequality | Article | Politics and Governance www.cogitatiopress.com/politicsandg...
“Strongmen” Don't Redistribute: Illiberal Leaders on the Right and Worsening Economic Inequality | Article | Politics and Governance
Dean Schafer, Seraphine F. Maerz, Carsten Q. Schneider, Alexandra Krasnokutskaya
www.cogitatiopress.com

Meine 5 Cents zur Frage, was Unis tun sollten in der momentanen Lage

www.diepresse.com/19665391/die...
„Die Methode verteidigen, nicht den Inhalt“
Unis müssen aus ihrer Defensive heraus, fordert CEU-Forscher Carsten Schneider.
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Some (not only) personal news
Carsten Schneider (@cqschneider.bsky.social) has been appointed Interim President & Rector (Aug 2025–July 2026). A CEU professor since 2004, Schneider is also Pro-Rector for External Relations & a key figure in CIVICA (@civica.bsky.social).

Read more: www.ceu.edu/article/2025...
Carsten Schneider (@cqschneider.bsky.social) has been appointed Interim President & Rector (Aug 2025–July 2026). A CEU professor since 2004, Schneider is also Pro-Rector for External Relations & a key figure in CIVICA (@civica.bsky.social).

Read more: www.ceu.edu/article/2025...
The White House says it is banning the Associated Press from the Oval Office and Air Force One.

Chinese translations of two more recent books of mines, all with @cambridgeup.bsky.social, are under way: “Qualitative Comparative Analysis using R”, with Nena Oana @nenaoana.bsky.social and Eva Thomann @evathomann.bsky.social and “Set-Theoretic Multi-Method Research”. I hold my breath. 我屏住呼吸 #QCA

我很高兴地宣布:My book, co-authored with Claudius Wagemann, “Set-Theoretic Methods for the Social Sciences” (2012) is now available in Chinese. I learn that the middle initial Q. translates as Q. in Chinese.

I’d be pleased to be added, too

Special thanks to @ingorohlfing.bsky.social, with whom I kicked off the SMMR project; and @nenaoana.bsky.social, who crucially helped with refining the conceptual ideas and with implementing them into the smmr() function in R.

www.cambridge.org/9781009307192. 20% discount with code STMMR23.

Are you interested in enhancing your descriptive and causal inference by combining QCA with case studies? Happy to see my book out now.
Descriptive and causal inference is enhanced by returning to cases after QCA. SMMR spells out the principles and practices of selecting the best cases in the data.