Czibere, Ibolya – Kovách, Imre (2021) State Populism in Rural Hungary
Czibere, Ibolya – Kovách, Imre (2021) State Populism in Rural Hungary. Rural Sociology pp. 1–25 (Q1, IF: 4.078

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Czibere, Ibolya – Kovách, Imre (2021) State Populism in Rural Hungary. Rural Sociology pp. 1–25 (Q1, IF: 4.078
David Wineroither and Rudolf Metz's article entitled “A Tale of Odds and Ratios: Political Preference Formation in Postindustrial Democracies" has been published in Politische Vierteljahresschrift
Eszter Farkas's article entitled “Discussing immigration in an illiberal media environment: Hungarian political scientists about the migration crisis in online public discourses" has been published in European Political Science.
Márton Bene article entitled “Who reaps the benefits? A cross-country investigation of the absolute and relative normalization and equalization theses in the 2019 European Parliament elections" has been published in New Media & Society.
Intersections. East European Journal of Society and Politics (IEEJSP) invites original research papers for its thematic issue on “Gender (Studies) in Exile”.
Csilla Zsigmond gave a presentation (Prejudice under Construction? A Comparative Study of the Ethnic Hungarian Youth’s Views on Refugees) at the conference titled "Europe’s Past, Present, and Future: Utopias and Dystopias. 27th International Conference of Europeanists" organized by the Council for European Studies between 21-25 June. The program is available at HERE.
Eszter Neumann will attend the interdisciplinary workshop of the University of Edinburgh on 29-30 June. The call is available at HERE.
As part of the Routledge series on Comparative Constitutional Change, a new book on Populist Challenges to Constitutional Interpretation in Europe and Beyond, co-edited by Fruzsina Gárdos-Orosz and Zoltán Szente has just been published
Márton Bene and Gabriella Szabó’s article entitled “Discovered and Undiscovered Fields of Digital Politics: Mapping Online Political Communication and Online News Media Literature in Hungary’ has been published in Intersections.
The paper can be accessed here >>> Péter Balogh – Attila Bai – Ibolya Czibere – Imre Kovách – László Fodor – Ágnes Bujdos – Dénes Sulyok – Zoltán Gabnai – Zoltán Birkner (2021): Economic and Social Barriers of Precision Farming in Hungary, Agronomy, 11(6):1112. (Q1, IF: IF2.67)
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June 2026
Katona, N., & Gábriel, D. (2026). The quiet collapse: Authoritarian neoliberalism and the crisis of care of older people in Hungary. Economy and Society, 55(2), 301–323. https://doi.org/10.1080/03085147.2026.2632445
May 2026
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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.