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
New monography by Tibor Valuch 'Contemporary Hungarian Society - Social Changes in Hungary from Late State Socialism' has been published by Routledge.
Attila Bartha and his co-authors Gabriel Asante and György Gajduschek have published their study "A social problem or a sacred promise? Explaining the mechanisms driving fee-free educational policy change in Ghana" in the journal Policy Studies (Q1, IF: 2.2).
Marianna Kopasz and her co-authors Ágnes Győri, Ildikó Husz and Márton Medgyesi published their study "Does attending to extremely poor clients increase the burnout of social workers?" in the European Journal of Social Work.
Christopher R. Jones, Christian Oltra, Alessio Giacometti, Vanja Čok, Janez Povh, Ursa Lamut, Gaston Meskens, Joke Kenens, Robbe Geysmans, Catrinel Turcanu, Zoltan Ferencz, Maria Teresa Orlando, Chiara Bustreo (2024). The clock is ticking: Understanding the ‘mixed feelings’ about fusion energy in Europe. Energy Research & Social Science, Volume 113, 103538, ISSN 2214-6296, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2024.103538. (IF=6.7; Q1)
Boglárka Herke (2024). Large and/or single-parent families: Public attitudes towards pronatalist and anti-poverty family policies in Hungary. International Journal of Social Welfare, 1–20. https://doi.org/10.1111/ijsw.12691 (Q1; IF: 1.2)
Ádám Stefkovics, Fruzsina Albert, Anna Sára Ligeti, Beáta Dávid, Szilvia Rudas & Júlia Koltai (2024): Vaccination homophily in ego contact networks during the COVID‑19 pandemic. Scientific Reports https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-65986-2
Paksi Veronika – Tardos Katalin (2024). Professional networking in the field of social sciences. Belvedere Meridionale vol. 36. no. 1. pp 43–54. https://doi.org/10.14232/belv.2024.1.3
More information on the research is available HERE.
Ana Stojilovska and her colleagues have published their articles in the journals Energy Research & Social Science and Energies.
Berezvai, Z., Vitrai, J., Tóth, G., Brys, Z., Bakacs, M., & Joó, T. (2024). Long-term impact of unhealthy food tax on consumption and the drivers behind: a longitudinal study in Hungary. Health Policy, 105098. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthpol.2024.105098 (Q1)
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.
