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
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
Publication: Xénia Farkas and Márton Bene's new article
Xénia Farkas and Márton Bene have recently published an article entitled "Images, Politicians, and Social Media: Patterns and Effects of Politicians’ Image-Based Political Communication Strategies on Social Media" in the International Journal of Press/Politics.
Publication: Gergő Medve-Bálint's new article
Gergő Medve-Bálint and his colleagues have recently published an article entitled "North and South, East and West: Is It Possible to Bridge the Gap?" in Governance and Politics in the Post-Crisis European Union edited by Coman, Ramona, Amandine Crespy, és Vivien Ann Schmidt (Cambridge University Press)
Publication: Pál Susánszky's new article
Pál Susánszky and his colleagues have recently published an article entitled "Radical-Right Political Activism on the Web and the Challenge for European Democracy: A Perspective from Eastern and Central Europe" in Democracy and Fake News Information Manipulation and PostTruth Politics edited by Serena Giusti and Elisa Piras (Routledge).
Ildikó Zakariás, Margit Feischmidt: ‘We Are That In-Between Nation’: Discourses of Deservingness of Hungarian Migrants Working in Institutions of Refugee Accommodation in Germany
SOCIOLOGY, First published 29 August 2020. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0038038520941690 Impact factor: 3,068.
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)

