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Political Science at the University of Bamberg is organized around a number of professorial chairs within the Faculty of Social Sciences, Economics and Business Administration: Comparative Politics; Comparative Public Policy Analysis; Empirical Political Science; EU Politics; International Relations; Political Sociology; Political Theory. There are six full professors, two emeritus professors and a total of approximately 20 full-time members of academic faculty. Political Science is also part of the Bamberg Graduate School of Social Sciences (BAGSS) offering a structured training programme for PhD students funded under the German Excellence Initiative. Main research areas are political institutions (national-, sub-national, inter-national and trans-national); voting behaviour and political psychology; positive political theory; and fiscal policy. Political Science at Bamberg is developing a number of international cooperations and has a strategy of internationalising its offerings through the establishment of inter-institutional double degrees and increased provision of courses in English.