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
Featured news
The Visegrad Fund approved the funding of the grant proposal 'Identifying News Slant in Crisis Communication Using Artificial Intelligence' of the Centre for Social Sciences.
Our Colleague had a discussion about his newest book, Political ethics in illiberal regimes. A realist interpretation
New paper by Rudolf Metz and Bendegúz Plesz "An insatiable hunger for charisma? A follower-centric analysis of populism and charismatic leadership" has been published in Leadership (D1).
New paper by Szilárd Tóth: Republicanism and the legitimacy of state border controls has been published in Ethics and Global Politics.
23 March, 2023
Zsolt Boda, Director General of the Centre for Social Sciences awarded Best Publication of the Year of each institute at CSS. The papers were introduced to colleagues at the general annual meeting on 23 March, 2023.
The Institute for Political Science, Centre for Social Sciences is launching a scholarship programme for BA, MA and PhD students to support scientific work in political science.
24 February, 2023
The 2020–2023 yearbook of the MILAB project at the Centre for Social Sciences (CSS) has been published. The publication sets on to showcase the various themes and fruition of the most recent research cases conducted within MILAB, Artificial Intelligence National Laboratory.
20 February, 2023
Principal Investigator Zsolt Körtvélyesi, host institute: CEU
17 February, 2023
The new ERC Consolidator Grant project, WelfareExperiences will analyse how different welfare systems can affect people's mental health and chances of returning to work – not just through the amount of money they get, but through the wider experience of claiming. Dorottya Szikra, Institute for Sociology, CSS is senior country lead on Hungary.
CSS MILAB representation at yet another successful event - Octopus Research Tools (ORT) was demonstrated at the AI & Aut Expo by the team of Bence Ságvári.
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
