On March 15, 2025, Dr. István Stumpf was awarded the Széchenyi Prize. On behalf of the entire Institute, we extend our heartfelt congratulations to our retired Senior Research Fellow!
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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.
Jordá, Beatriz, Cañedo, Azahara, Bene, Márton & Goyanes, Manuel’s new article entitled "Out-of-Place Content: How Repetitive, Offensive, and Opinion-Challenging Social Media Posts Shape Users’ Unfriending Strategies in Spain" has been published in Social Sciences.
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New publication of Zsófia Papp, "The Indirect Effect of Electoral Rules on Citizens' Satisfaction with Democracy: A Comparative Study" was published in the Swiss Political Science Review.
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New publication of Balázs Böcskei and Eszter Farkas has been published on the “The Loop” website. "The Loop" is the official blog of the ECPR (European Consortium for Political Research).
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Rudolf Metz and Réka Várnagy have just published a new article entitled “Mass,” “Movement,” “Personal,” or “Cartel” Party? Fidesz’s Hybrid Organisational Strategy in Politics and Governance.
Miklós Sebők and Jasper Simons have published their article entitled "How Orbán won? Neoliberal disenchantment and the grand strategy of financial nationalism to reconstruct capitalism and regain autonomy" in Socio-Economic Review.
Tibor Valuch's new book entitled "Everyday Life under Communism and After Lifestyle and Consumption in Hungary, 1945–2000" has been published by CEU Press.
Rudolf Metz’s new article entitled 'The missing link: Studying political leadership from the followers’ perspective' has been published in Politics.
Hungarian Comparative Agendas Project's new book entitled Policy Agendas in Autocracy, and Hybrid Regimes. The Case of Hungary (eds. Miklós Sebők and Zsolt Boda) has been published by Palgrave Macmillan.
Miklós Sebők and Jasper Simons’ new article entitled ’How Orbán won? Neoliberal disenchantment and the grand strategy of financial nationalism to reconstruct capitalism and regain autonomy’ has been published in Oxford University Press.
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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.
