Aurelian Muntean

Aurelian Muntean

Associate Professor

Office:
30A Expoziției Blvd., Room 703
Office hours:
By appointment via email.

Courses taught

Social Statistics (bachelor’s); Labour, the Economy and Artificial Intelligence (bachelor’s); Comparative Politics (bachelor’s); Electoral Analysis (bachelor’s); Comparative Labour Relations and Social Dialogue (master’s, taught in English); Varieties of Capitalism and Economic Development (master’s, taught in English); Sociology of Interest Groups (master’s, taught in English); Technology and Artificial Intelligence in Training and Work (master’s, taught in English); Electoral Sociology (master’s); Data Analysis Methods (master’s, taught in English). DataCamp, the most intuitive online platform for data science, supports the Data Analysis Methods course.

Courses in the bachelor’s programme · Sociology

Research interests

Labour relations; social dialogue among trade unions, firms and the state; elections and electoral systems; electoral corruption; political parties and party systems; executive–legislative relations; change and regulation in labour markets and labour relations during economic transitions; labour and migration; technology and AI in work and education; varieties of capitalism; church–state relations; democracy and democratisation.

Short biography

He leads the master’s programme in Labour Studies at SNSPA. He studied political science at Babeș-Bolyai University and Central European University in Budapest. He earned his PhD in sociology from SNSPA in 2011 under the supervision of Vintilă Mihăilescu and was a Fulbright Senior Fellow at Columbia University.

His research covers labour relations, social dialogue and electoral behaviour, and he teaches data analysis methods. His publications include books on quantitative and qualitative methods and on elections in Romania.

Publications, projects and resources