Call for Papers: “Tradition, Constitution and European Integration”
Institute for Legal Studies
Call for Papers: “Tradition, Constitution and European Integration”
Publication Awards 2025
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.
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
Zoltán Szente’s monograph on the Hungarian constitutional system has been published
Institute for Legal Studies
Zoltán Szente’s monograph on the Hungarian constitutional system has been published
The latest issue of Intersections. EEJSP is now out
Centre for Social Sciences
Call for papers: The reenchantment of culture and flexible citizenship in a hardening world. Ideology and life strategies in middle-class migration to Europe and beyond
Institute for Minority Studies
Workshop at the Centre for Social Sciences, Budapest in co-operation with the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, 26 November 2021. Abstracts should sent to Nyíri Pál, p.d.nyiri(*)vu.nl, by 30 August 2021.
Call for job applications: International Funding Officer
Centre for Social Sciences
Hajdu, Gábor – Hajdu, Tamás (2021): The long-term impact of restricted access to abortion on children’s socioeconomic outcomes
Institute for Sociology
The paper can be read in the PLOS ONE journal (IF: 2.740) >>> Gábor Hajdu – Tamás Hajdu (2021): The long-term impact of restricted access to abortion on children’s socioeconomic outcomes. PLOS ONE, 16(3)
Pubilication: Márton Bene's article in Journal of Information Technology & Politics
Institute for Political Science
Márton Bene has published an article entitled "Topics to talk about. The effects of political topics and issue ownership on user engagement with politicians’ Facebook posts during the 2018 Hungarian general election" in the Journal of Information Technology & Politics.
Publication: Rudolf Metz's article
Institute for Political Science
Rudolf Metz has published an article entitled "Democratic leadership as a political weapon: competition between fictions and practices" in the International Journal of Public Leadership
Early Stage Researcher position: ESR7 - Housing crisis and its impact on adequate housing
Centre for Social Sciences
New Publication: András Bíró-Nagy's article
Institute for Political Science
András Bíró-Nagy has published an article entitled “Orbán’s political jackpot: migration and the Hungarian electorate” in Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies.
Our results
The populist voter trap: why regime change may not end populism
Polarizing transition? New paper by István Benedek
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.
Trust in science, knowledge and risk perception as predictors of COVID-19 vaccination
Caring communities in senior care. New paper by Noémi Katona and Dóra Gábriel
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)