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.
We inform our partners that due to a government decision, our research centre was integrated into ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest. As of 1 August 2025, our legal name is ELTE Centre for Social Sciences
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Featured news
Marianna Kopasz and her co-authors Tamás Bartus and Ildikó Husz have published their study “The role of the family’s ethnicity and correlates in social workers’ risk perceptions: Evidence from a vignette study in Hungary” in Children and Youth Services Review (Q1; IF: 2.4).
Boglárka Herke (2024). Framing the Deservingness of Families: How Government Discourse Contributes to Growing Precarity of Single-Parent Families in Hungary. In: Gatenio Gabel, S., Michoń, P. (eds) Navigating Family Policies in Precarious Times. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-66256-0_5
Our colleague Tamás Turán will also present on 24th September in Vienna, at a workshop entitled Ignaz Goldziher and the Study of Islamic and Jewish Legal Cultures, organised by the Department of Islamic-Theological Studies at the University of Vienna, the CEU Center for Religious Studies and the CEU Jewish Studies Program. His presentation is entitled Consensus and Dissent: Goldziher's Ideas about Reform in Judaism and Islam.
Kovács, É., Frojimovics, K. (2024) “A Miraculous Sign!” Vienna Through the Eyes of Hungarian-Jewish Slave Labourers. Contemporary Jewry . https://doi.org/10.1007/s12397-024-09568-4 (Q1)
Hajdu Gábor (2024). Perceived income inequality, perceived unfairness and subjective social status in Europe. Socio-Economic Review. https://doi.org/10.1093/ser/mwae055 (D1; IF: 3.2)
New journal article by Attila Bartha and Zsolt Boda ’Tax Compliance Motivations During Corruption Scandals in a Fragile Democracy: A Before-and-After Study’ has been published in Europe-Asia Studies (D1: History, Q1: Sociology and Political Science, IF: 1.2).
István Benedek has published his study ’Populist autocratization and populist electoral autocracies: towards a unified conceptual framework’ in Comparative European Politics (Q1, IF=3.1).
András Bíró-Nagy and Áron Szászi have published their study ’The roots of Euroscepticism: Affective, behavioural and cognitive anti-EU attitudes in Hungary’ in Sociology Compass (Q1, IF=3.1).
5 September, 2024
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.
