Mid-term strategic plan of the Institute for Political Science (summary)
Leading the way in domestic political science: the Institute for Political Science has achieved outstanding publication performance in international journals between 2019 and 2022
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Ana Stojilovska, Senior Research Fellow at our Institute, won a new project titled Local Initiatives for Green Housing Transitions (LIGHT) funded by the European Climate Foundation. The project aims to empower trusted local actors to co-create structural solutions for affordable, low-carbon housing through shared learning and practices in Hungary.
The article titled "Political Socialization Scenarios Leading to Party Membership in an Autocratizing Democracy: Insights From an Interview-Based Study", authored by Annamária Sebestyén (our Institute's Research Fellow) has been published in the journal Political Studies (D1).
Tibor Valuch’s study titled "The future of deindustrialization – a social and cultural turn? The future of former industrial landscapes and industrial societies in Central Eastern Europe" has been published in issue 1/2025 of the Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe (Q1, IF: 0.9).
The article of Szilárd Tóth, our Institute's Research Fellow, has been published in Res Publica (Q1). The title of the article is "Why Civic Republicanism Remains a Statist Theory."
The article authored by András Déri and Andrea Szabó, our Institute's Senior Research Fellow, has been published in the journal Frontiers in Political Sciences (Q1). The article's title is "Interpreting political participation as communicative action: a comparison of younger and older adults."
Eszter Farkas and Anna Ujlaki's report has been published in the volume "Changing Migration Patterns: A Comparative Study on the Movement of People and the Impact for Countries in the Region", edited by Ninna Mörner. The title of our researchers' report is "Between Welcome and Rejection: Hungary’s Overpoliticized Immigration Narrative."
A new article authored by Ákos Holányi, Junior Research Fellow at our Institute, has been published in the Journal of European Integration (Q1) under the title "Unpolitics, domestic pressures, or else? The opposition of Visegrád Group countries to the EU’s Pact on Migration and Asylum."
The article titled "Variations in school social work. Results from a Hungarian qualitative study", authored by Marianna Kopasz, our Institute's Senior Research Fellow was published in the journal Socio.hu Social Science Review.
Csaba Molnár has been awarded the 2025 Aurél Kolnai Prize. This honour, given for the most outstanding political science publication of the year, was presented to our Institute's Research Fellow at the 30th Annual Conference of the Hungarian Political Science Association (HPSA) for his book "The Weight of Weightlessness" ("A súlytalanság súlya").
The study titled "Varieties of Corruption? A Typology of Country-Level Corruption Patterns Using Fuzzy-Set Ideal Type Analysis" authored by Áron Hajnal and Attila Bartha, our Institute's researchers, has been published in the journal "Political Studies Review" (Q1).
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In the fifth pti memo blog post, we report on a lecture by Boglárka Koller, in which she presented her project titled "Cultivating Our European Resilience and Evolution" (CORE) and its significance. Boglárka Koller is the Head of the Department of European Studies at the University of Public Service, Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic and Regional Studies (KRTK), and Jean Monnet Chair. The lecture was hosted by the HUN-REN CSS Institute for Political Science on May 22, 2025, as part of its Speaker Series.
The latest post of the pti memo blog series offers insights from a thought-provoking lecture by Murat Somer, Professor of Political Science and International Relations at Özyeğin University Istanbul and Research Affiliate at the Democracy Institute of the Central European University. Titled "Quo Vadis in Turkey and Implications for Democracy in the World", the lecture explored current political developments in Turkey and their broader implications on combating democratic backsliding. The event took place on May 8, 2025, as part of the HUN-REN CSS Institute for Political Science’s Speaker Series.
The third blog post of the pti memo series summarises the lecture of Dr. Matthew Edward Bergman, Assistant Professor at Corvinus University of Budapest, titled “Ideological Conflict, Logrolling, and Policy Reform: An Analysis of Government Declarations in Western Europe.” The event was organised as part of the HUN-REN Institute for Political Science’s Speaker Series on April 10, 2025. This research, conducted jointly with Hanna Bäck (Lund University) and Wolfgang C. Müller (Universität Wien), investigates why some governments commit to more reform measures in their government declarations.
The second pti memo post summarises the lecture by Bálint Magyar and Bálint Madlovics, researchers at the CEU Democracy Institute, titled “The Russia-Ukraine War and Its Structural Consequences.” The event was organised as part of the HUN-REN Institute for Political Science’s Speaker Series on February 6, 2025.
Hungary is often portrayed as a problem case for European integration due to frequent clashes between Viktor Orbán’s government and the EU’s institutions. Yet, as András Bíró-Nagy and Gergő Medve-Bálint explain in their post on the LSE EUROPP blog, the country’s 20 years in the EU have also seen a relatively high level of compliance with EU policies and strong support for membership among the public.
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In the first pti memo post, we summarise Christian Baden’s (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) thought-provoking lecture titled “Propaganda as a Social Process.” The lecture was hosted by the HUN-REN Institute for Political Science as part of its Speaker Series event series on January 23, 2025.
