Center for Policy Studies

Infobox Institute
name= Center for Policy Studies


caption=
established=2000
director= Violetta Zentai
location= Budapest, Hungary
address= Central European UniversityNador Street 9H-1051 BudapestHungary
website= [http://cps.ceu.hu/ Center for Policy Studies]

The Center for Policy Studies (CPS) is an academic unit within Central European University, dedicated to improving the quality of governance in Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union by the provision of independent public policy analysis and advice.

Activities and main initiatives

The center believes that the experiences of post-socialist transition can be usefully shared with countries enduring great social transformation, but that the translation of these local experiences requires a sound appreciation of policy contexts. The center is committed to strengthening local capacity for critical policy analysis and pursues research and publication that is interdisciplinary and carried out with partners in the global policy community, particularly in Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. CPS cooperates with institutes and researchers from Europe and beyond on a wide range of projects within eight broad research programs (see following). Each program benefits from expertise by CPS staff and a network of external researchers, and usually includes several ongoing research projects.

Research Priorities and main projects:

* Good Governance
** Structural Funds Impacts and Transparency
** Public Integrity Education Network (PIEN)
** Impact Assessment of Anti-Corruption Projects in Southeast Europe
** Lessons Learned and Future Directions in Budget and Revenue Monitoring
** Civil Society in Southeast Europe (Blue Bird)
* Social Diversity and Equal Opportunity
** Quality in Gender + Equality Policies (QUING)
** European Coalition for Community Living (ECCL)
** EU Disability Discrimination
** Roma Initiatives
** Policy Frames and Implementation Problems: the Case of Gender Mainstreaming (MAGEEQ)
** Women, Integration and Prison. Analysis of the Processes of Socio-Labor Integration of ** Women Prisoners in Europe (MIP)
** Included in Society. European Initiative on De-institutionalization of Disabled People (INCLUSION)
** Ethnic Statistics and Data Protection
** Ethnic Violence and Justice
* Bridging Knowledge and Policy
** Impact Assessment of the International Policy Fellowship Program on Policy Research ** ** Capacity Development
** Quarterly Economic Indicators in the former Soviet Union countries
* Globalization
** Political Consequences of Anti-Americanism
** Mapping Global Knowledge Networks
** GARNET Network of Excellence
* European Integration and Policy-making
** Feasibility Study for Consular and Visa Cooperation among the Visegrád States for Residents of Ukraine and Moldova
** Committee Governance in an Enlarged European Union
** The European Future of Turkey and Ukraine
* Economic Culture
** Eastern Enlargement - Western Enlargement:: Cultural Encounters in the European Economy and Society After the Accession (DIOSCURI)
** The Socio-Economic Culture of Eastern Europe in the Enlarged Union: an Asset or a Liability? (ACCESS)
** How transferable is the French social model? French multinational companies and their influence on the evolution of industrial relations in Bulgaria, Hungary and Poland, 1998-2007 (DARES)
* Rural Development
** Evaluating SAPARD
** Land reform and rural development in the former Soviet Union
** Building Rural Development Curricula in Transition Countries and Emerging Democracies
* Social Capital
** Social Capital and Regional Development (SOCCOH)
** Social Capital and Social Policy Network (SCSPN)
** Social Capital in Central and Eastern Europe: A Critical Assessment and Literature Review

CPS has published several volumes of policy research, runs its own policy paper series and offers an on-line library of policy documents from Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union: the Policy Documentation Center.

* The Policy Documentation Center

This database of public policy documents from Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union is the largest of its kind, with over 1500 papers from over 60 institutes from over 25 countries. The PDC covers a huge range of public policy topics grouped in six main fields. The majority of papers are produced by think tanks and research institutes although the PDC also includes studies and proposals from several international programs.

External links

* [http://cps.ceu.hu/ The Center for Policy Studies]
* [http://pdc.ceu.hu/ The Policy Documentation Center]
* [http://web.ceu.hu/dpp/ The Department of Public Policy, Central European University]
* [http://www.ceu.hu/home Central European University]