Levente Littvay
Levente Littvay is a Research Professor at HUN-REN Centre for Social Sciences and Senior Research Fellow at the Democracy Institute of Central European University, where he also was (Full) Professor of Political Science (2007-2023) and taught graduate courses in research design, applied statistics, electoral politics, voting behavior, political psychology, and American politics and was the inaugural and only two-time recipient of the university's Teaching Award (2015 for methods-, and 2021 for online teaching).
He received his MA and PhD in Political Science and an MS in Survey Research and Methodology from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Taught numerous research methods workshops globally, such as at Waseda University in Tokyo, Japan, Bamberg University in Germany, and the University of Geneve in Switzerland among others. He is the founder and Academic Coordinator of MethodsNET, a Presidium member of the Hungarian Political Science Association, and head of Team Survey in Team Populism. He was a member of the European Social Survey’s Round 10 (2020-21) democracy and COVID-19 module questionnaire design teams and Co-Principal Investigator for the Comparative Study of Election Systems for Hungary and Tunisia.
His awards include the European University Institute’s Fernand Braudel Senior Research Fellowship (2019-20), the 2022 Giovanni Sartori Prize for best paper in the Italian Political Science Review / Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica, and the Morton Deutsch Award for the best 2017 article in Social Justice Research. His books include Multilevel Structural Equation Modeling with Bruno Castanho Silva and Constantin Manuel Bosancianu in SAGE’s QASS (little green book) series, which was also published in Mandarin Chinese.
