Seminar Series on Political Economy – Spring 2026: Session #3 with Jan Rovny
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This spring, the Political Economy Master’s programme (Iscte – University Institute of Lisbon) and PhD programme (Iscte – University Institute of Lisbon, ISEG – University of Lisbon, and FE – University of Coimbra) are hosting a seminar series on pressing issues in capitalist societies, held at Iscte from March 3 to May 28, 2026.
The series calls for an interdisciplinary perspective grounded in historical, political, institutional knowledge and imagination. It brings together leading scholars in the field of Political Economy to examine the rise of authoritarianism; the politics of quantification; the financialization of the economy and its impact on systems of provision, such as housing; the emergence of asset manager capitalism and growing wealth inequality.
Open to all, the Seminar Series on Political Economy is co-organized by DINÂMIA’CET-Iscte, the Department of Political Economy at Iscte’s School of Social Sciences, and the Portuguese Association for Political Economy.
The upcoming session "Political competition in Europe, Ideological conflict lines in Europe", presented by Jan Rovny (Center for European Studies and Comparative Politics at Sciences, Paris), will take place on 4 May 2026, at Iscte, Building 4, Auditorium A306, at 16:00.
Jan Rovny is currently Full Professor in Political Science at the Centre for European Studies and Comparative Politics at Sciences Po, Paris. His work examines political competition in Europe, with particular attention to ideological conflict lines, party strategies, and patterns of voter preferences and behaviour. He also studies ethnic politics, social risks, and democratic representation. Rovny is a principal investigator of the Chapel Hill Expert Survey on party positioning and of the Horizon Europe project AUTHLIB. He teaches comparative politics and quantitative methodology, and is the author of Ethnic Minorities, Political Competition, and Democracy: Circumstantial Liberals (Oxford University Press, 2024).