Announcement
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
Struggles over Europe: Postcolonial East/West Dynamics of Race, Gender and Sexuality
POLTEXT’s proposal for ParlaMint’s ‘Call for New Languages’ has been successful
POLTEXT’s proposal for ParlaMint’s ‘Call for New Languages’ has been successful and POLTEXT will now have the opportunity to contribute parliamentary corpora to ParlaMint’s (CLARIN) collection.
Publication: Miklós Sebők and Zoltán Kacsuk's article
Miklós Sebők and Zoltán Kacsuk have published an article entitled ’The Multiclass Classification of Newspaper Articles with Machine Learning: The Hybrid Binary Snowball Approach’ in Political Analysis.
Position available at Centre for Social Sciences: ESR7 - Housing crisis and its impact on adequate housing
Tamás Hoffmann: The crime of genocide in its (nearly) infinite domestic variety
Tamás Hoffmann recently published a chapter entitled 'The crime of genocide in its (nearly) infinite domestic variety' in The Concept of Genocide in International Criminal Law - Developments after Lemkin, edited by Marco Odello and Piotr Łubiński and published by Routledge.
Publication: Miklós Sebők's article
Publication: Miklós Sebők and Sándor Kozák have published a new article entitled ‘From State Capture to “Pariah” Status? The Preference Attainment of the Hungarian Banking Association (2006–14)’ in Business and Politics.
The Illiberal State against Science and Culture: The Case of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Márton Zászkaliczky - Viktor Olivér Lőrincz - László Péter - Judit Gárdos Plenary Panel, American Association for the Advancement of Science conference. More >>
Publication: Attila Bartha's new article
Attila Bartha and Violetta Zentai have just published a new article entitled "Long-Term Care and Gender Equality: Fuzzy-Set Ideal Types of Care Regimes in Europe" in Social Inclusion.
Division of Labour within Families, Work–Life Conflict and Family Policy, (2020, Volume 8, Issue 4) Edited by Michael Ochsner, Ivett Szalma and Judit Takács
Our results
Recently published: Dorottya Szikra et al: How Populists Governed the COVID-19 Pandemic
Identity, Belonging, and the Law. Edited by András László Pap et al.
New publication. We’re not heroes, we’re just doing our job: analysis of social workers’ discourses about their profession in online communities
New paper: Compromising Priests and Nuns Under State Socialism
Illiberal Social Policy in Europe. New paper by Dorottya Szikra
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
Urban Planning in the Context of Democratic Backsliding
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)
New book: The Challenges of Artificial Intelligence for Law in Europe
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.
Measuring attitudes towards voluntary childlessness: Indicators in European comparative surveys
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
Mental health risk in human services work across Europe: the predictive role of employment in various sectors
New publication: Ágnes Győri, Éva Perpék, Szilvia Ádám: Mental health risk in human services work across Europe: the predictive role of employment in various sectors. Frontiers in Public Health-ben (Q1, IF: 3)
30 January, 2025
WISE project and OTKA research: Collective for women for solidarity in energy and the energy crisis in Hungary
4 November, 2024

