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
About our Institute
The primary objective of the Institute for Political Science of the Centre for Social Sciences (CSS) is to conduct basic research in political science. Researchers at the Institute conduct both theoretical and empirical research, and the results are disseminated to both the academic and general public at scientific and professional forums.
Latest news
The article titled "Does cohort size matter? Assessing the effect of youth cohort size and peer influence on young people’s electoral participation", written by Godfred Bonnah Nksansah and Zsófia Papp is now available in the Journal of Youth Studies.
The new publication of Zsófia Papp titled "Environmental attitudes, environmental problems and party choice. A large-N comparative study" is now available in the Political Geography journal.
The new article by Veronika Patkós and Árpád Stump titled "Do electoral reforms tend to favour the incumbents? A quantitative analysis" is now available in the Acta Politica journal.
Veronika Patkós' new article titled "Measuring partisan polarization with partisan differences in satisfaction with the government: the introduction of a new comparative approach" is now available in the Quality & Quantity journal.
A new article has been published in the Political Communication journal, entitled "Keep Them Engaged! Investigating the Effects of Self-centered Social Media Communication Style on User Engagement in 12 European Countries". It has been written by Márton Bene, Andrea Ceron, Vicente Fenoll, Jörg Haßler, Simon Kruschinski, Anders Olof Larsson, Melanie Magin, Katharina Schlosser and Anna-Katharina Wurst
A new article entitled "Strikingly similar: Comparing visual political communication of populist and non-populist parties across 28 countries" is now available in the European Journal of Communication. It was authored by Xénia Farkas, Daniel Jackson, Paweł Baranowski, Márton Bene, Uta Russmann, and Anastasia Veneti.
The Institute for Political Science, Centre for Social Sciences is launching a scholarship programme for BA, MA and PhD students to support scientific work in political science. The programme offers a short-term publication scholarship to increase the international visibility of the academic production of young scholars. To be eligible for a 2022 Scholarship, a candidate must be an undergraduate/graduate/doctoral student enrolled at a Hungarian University.
A new publication entitled "The Polyphonic Sounds of Europe: Users 'Engagement with Parties' European-focused Facebook posts" in the journal Politics & Governance.
Husz, Ildikó, Kopasz, Marianna and Medgyesi, Márton's new article entitled "Social Workers’ Causal Attributions for Poverty: Does the Level of Spatial Concentration of Disadvantages Matter?" has been published in Social Indicators Research.