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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Gárdos, J. (2023) “Questions and Explanations in Sociology: A Science Studies Field Study”, Science & Technology Studies. https://sciencetechnologystudies.journal.fi/article/view/111856 doi: 10.23987/sts.111856. Q1, Impact factor (2021): 3.105
The articles appeared in Neue Zürcher Zeitung and in Der Standard.
Kovács, É. (2023). The Sensual Memory of Shoah: The Meaning of Sound, Touch and Taste in the Culture of Testimonies. In: Jones, S., Woods, R. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Testimony and Culture. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-13794-5_12
Organised by the Computational Social Science – RECENS Research Group of CSS
14–15 September, 2023 :: Centre of Social Science Budapest
The five-year project, funded with over EUR 560 000, is entitled: "The changing global relations of the Visegrad countries in times of war - An artificial intelligence-assisted comparative analysis".
New paper by Ana Stojilovska and her colleagues Energy spaces: bridging scales and standpoints of just energy transitions has been published in the Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning.
Gábriel, D. 2023. The interconnectedness of biographies, migration and gender norms. Intersections. East European Journal of Society and Politics. 9, 1 (Apr. 2023), 62–78. DOI:https://doi.org/10.17356/ieejsp.v9i1.979.
Thursday, 27 April 16.45-18.15.
Speakers: Dorottya Szikra, Central European University and Cristina Rat, University of Babes Bolyai
Discussants: Dorothee Bohle, University of Vienna and Imre Szabo, Central European University
Venue: Konferenzraum, Institute für Politikwissenschaft, Universität Wien. Universitätsstrasse 7 (NIG building), 2nd floor
Our results
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
