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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Szalma Ivett - Szczuka Borbála Júlia (2024). Reproductive Choices and Climate Change in a Pronatalist Context. East European Politics and Societies, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/08883254241229728 (Q2, IF: 0,7)
Hilbert Bálint (2024): Urban governance systems in autonomous territories of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy: The cases of Croatia-Slavonia and Austrian Galicia (1867-1918). Geographia Polonica, 97(1), 23-46. DOI: https://doi.org/10.7163/GPol.0267 Q1, IF:0,9
Stefkovics Ádám, Angela Eichhorst, Dominic Skinnion, Chase H Harrison (2024): Are We Becoming More Transparent? Survey Reporting Trends in Top Journals of Social Sciences, International Journal of Public Opinion Research, Volume 36, Issue 2, Summer 2024, edae013, https://doi.org/10.1093/ijpor/edae013 Q1, IF:1.8
Stefkovics, Á., Ágoston, C., Bukovenszki, E., Dúll, A., Hortay, O., & Varga, A. (2024). Climate change worry in the times of the COVID-19 pandemic. Evidence from two large-scale European surveys. Climate Risk Management, 100599. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crm.2024.100599 Q1, IF: 4.4
New journal article by András Bíró-Nagy and Áron Szászi ’Controversies of COVID-19 vaccine promotion: lessons of three randomised survey experiments from Hungary’ has been published in Public Health.
Our Institute's research professor presented on 'The Secular-Islamist Dimension of Spatial Voting: Underrepresentation in Tunisia'.
Ivett Szalma - Marieke Heers (2024): Attitudes Toward Immigration in Europe. Understanding the Links Between Pronatalism and Voluntary Childlessness; International Journal of Sociology Q1 https://doi.org/10.1080/00207659.2024.2319420
The Institute for Political Science (Ana Stojilovska) as part of a consortium led by EnAct, France won a 2-year project Women for Solidarity in Energy (WISE) under the CERV-2023-CITIZENS-CIV call worth 365,225 EUR.
CALL FOR PAPERS - Workshop on Constitutional Interpretation in Emergencies in Europe
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9 July, 2025
Szikra, D., & Autischer, L. (2025). Illiberal Social Policy in Europe: When Policy Implementation Meets Welfare Ideas. Politics and Governance, 13, Article 9707. https://doi.org/10.17645/pag.9707
Recently published (17.06.2025):
Kőszeghy Lea, Hilbert Bálint, & Csizmady Adrienne (2025). Urban Planning in the Context of Democratic Backsliding: The Case of Hungary. Urban Planning, Vol 10 (2025): The Role of Planning in ’Anti-Democratic’ Times. Urban Planning, Cogitatio Press. 0.592 (Q1), IF 1.7 (2024)
13 May, 2025
The book The Challenges of Artificial Intelligence for Law in Europe published recently by Springer was edited by Márton Varju and Kitti Mezei, as part of the book series Data Science, Machine Intelligence, and Law.
20 March, 2025
New publication:
Szalma I, Heers M, Tanturri ML (2025) Measuring attitudes towards voluntary childlessness: Indicators in European comparative surveys. PLOS ONE 20(3): e0319081. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0319081
