Authors of the best publications of our institutes are acknowledged each year. On 5 March, 2025, Zsolt Boda, General Director, handed out the awards at the annual meeting of the Centre for Social Sciences, followed by brief presentations of the research findings.
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Featured news
Ivett Szalma - Alexandra Sipos (2024). A comparative analysis across reproduction policy fields in Hungary. n H. Zagel (Ed.), Reproduction Policy in the Twenty-First Century: A Comparative Analysis (pp. 119–135). Edward Elgar Publishing.
Dorota Szelewa, Dorottya Szikra (2024). Fighting Gender Equality under the Pandemic. The Case of Polish and Hungarian Anti-Gender Equality and Anti-LGBTQ+ Policies under the COVID-19 Crisis. Partecipazione e conflitto, 17(2), 502-521, DOI Code: 10.1285/i20356609v17i2p502 (Q2)
Gerő Márton (2024). Civil Society, De-democratization and Political Polarization: The Hungarian, Polish, and Israeli Cases. Partecipazione e conflitto 17.2, 522-540. DOI Code: 10.1285/i20356609v17i2p522 (Q2)
Zombory, M. (2024). Moral Universalism in the East: Anti-Fascist Humanism and the Memory of the Holocaust in Zoltán Fábri’s Film Late Season (1967). In A. Koch & S. Stach (Ed.), Holocaust Memory and the Cold War: Remembering across the Iron Curtain (pp. 201-222). Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Oldenbourg. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110672657-009
Komolafe, C., Lukács J, Á., & Dávid, B. (2024). Roma undergraduates’ partner selection and social embeddedness. Intercultural Education, 1–16. https://doi.org/10.1080/14675986.2024.2411100 (D1)
Zoltán Kékesi, Máté Zombory (2024). The Postwar Fight Against Fascism: Auschwitz Memory in Leftist Activism. Journal of Genocide Research, 1–21. https://doi.org/10.1080/14623528.2024.2410049 (Q1)
Perceptions of Change and Migration Aspirations; European Countryside Volume 16 (2024): Issue 3. https://doi.org/10.2478/euco-2024-0020 (Q2)
New journal article by Eszter Bartha and Tibor Valuch ’Making or Faking Capitalism? Socialist Dreams and Postsocialist Experiences in East-Central Europe’ has been published in the Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe (Q1).
A joint historical comparative study of faith and morals education in Slovakia and Hungary by Eszter Neumann, Ondrej Kaščák and Zuzana Daniškova has been published. The study is published in the open access volume Educational Secularization within Europe and Beyond - The Political Projects of Modernizing Religion through Education Reform (edited by Mette Buchardt), available by clicking on the title.
Partecipazione e conflitto Vol. 17, No. 2 (2024). Special issue on: "Freedom and the Illiberal Zeitgeist in East-Central Europe - a Conflict-Laden Relationship"
Our results
June 2026
Katona, N., & Gábriel, D. (2026). The quiet collapse: Authoritarian neoliberalism and the crisis of care of older people in Hungary. Economy and Society, 55(2), 301–323. https://doi.org/10.1080/03085147.2026.2632445
May 2026
Written by Andrea Szabó, András Bozóki, and Zoltán Gábor Szűcs-Zágoni
March 2026
Benedek István (2026): Polarizing transition? Opposition strategies and the rise of Péter Magyar and the Respect and Freedom Party (TISZA) in Hungary. Comparative European Politics.
