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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Ákos Huszár – Karolina Balogh – Ágnes Győri (2022): Educational mobility at the top and the bottom of the social structure in Hungary. Intersections East European Journal of Society and Politics, Volume 8 Issue 2, 138-155. (Q3)
Zsuzsanna Árendás – Vera Messing (2022): ‘I was told the position has already been filled’ Barriers to mobility and coping strategies of highly qualified Roma youth on their way to the business sector in Hungary. Intersections East European Journal of Society and Politics, Volume 8 Issue 2, 41-58. (Q3)
Judit Durst – Ákos Huszár (2022): Individual success, collective failure? The process and consequences of social (im)mobility in neo-liberal times. Intersections East European Journal of Society and Politics, Volume 8 Issue 2, 1-11. (Q3)
The paper "When Ideology Matters More - Science and Vaccine Scepticism in Light of Political Ideologies and Partisanship during the Third COVID-19 Wave in Hungary." by Eszter Farkas, Balázs Böcskei and Andrea Szabó is published in Politics in Central Europe.
Immler, Nicole – Kovács, Éva (2022) Zum politischen Anspruch der Oral History. Über das epistemische Schweigen und die ontologische Taubheit der Mehrheitsgesellschaft. FQS Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 23(2), Art. 2, (IF: 1.53, Q1)
Bernadett Csurgó, Melanie K. Smith (2022): Cultural Heritage, Sense of Place and Tourism: An Analysis of Cultural Ecosystem Services in Rural Hungary. Sustainability Vol 14, no. 12: 7305. https://doi.org/10.3390/su14127305 (Q1, IF: 3.251)
Adrienne Csizmady, Márton Bagyura, Gergely Olt (2022): From a Small Village to an Exclusive Gated Community: Unplanned Suburbanisation and Local Sovereignty in Post‐Socialist Hungary. Urban Planning, Vol. 7, Issue 3, Online first https://doi.org/10.17645/up.v7i3.5275 (Q2)
Csaba Békés's new book entitled "Hungary's Cold War: International Relations from the End of World War II to the Fall of the Soviet Union" by University of North Carolina Press.
Our results
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.
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)
