The Directorate of our Institute has announced the “Researcher of the Year” and the “Young Researcher of the Year” awards, recognizing the outstanding scientific achievements of two of our colleagues in 2024.

A co-authored study by István Benedek, a Research Fellow at our Institute, titled “Return to Power: The Illiberal Playbook from Hungary, Poland, and the United States”, has been published in the journal Politics in Central Europe.

Miklós Sebők, Csaba Molnár and Anna Takács's study titled "Levelling up quantitative legislative studies on Central-Eastern Europe:: Introducing the ParlText CEE Database of Speeches, Bills, and Laws" has been published in the journal "Intersections. East European Journal of Society and Politics".

Andrea Szabó, our Institute's Senior Research Fellow, and András Déri's study titled "Be Real! Age Effects on the Interpretations of Political Participation" has been published in the journal YOUNG (Q1).

Bendegúz Plesz and András Körösényi's study titled "The opportunities and constraints of successful heresthetical strategies: attitudes, identities, and the framing of the Russian-Ukrainian war in Hungary" has been published in the East European Politics journal (D1).

Gábor Illés and Tamás László's study titled "Crowds and plebiscitary representation: Rituals of presence in the Orbán regime" has been published in The British Journal of Politics and International Relations.

Gabriella Szabó (HUN-REN TK PTI) and Lenka Vochocová (Charles University, Prague) are organising a panel discussion for the upcoming ECREA conference titled “Cringe Culture in Politics: Exploring Humour, Vulnerability, and Ridicule in the Digital Age.” The organisers are accepting applications for the panel discussion until March 14, 2025.

Cornel Ban, Gergő Medve-Bálint and Clara Volintiru's study titled "The Politics of Developmental Alliances and Municipal Industrial Policy in Central and Eastern European Cities" has been published in the journal Competition & Change (D1).

Our Institute's research fellow presented about the good practices for tackling transport poverty in Hungary together with Lea Kőszeghy (CSS Institute for Sociology) on the 11th of December.

Research fellow Ana Stojilovska and project assistant Sára Szabó represented our Institute in the WISE Pan-European Conference which took place on the 6th of December 2024 in Sofia, Bulgaria.