Intersections ranked again in Q2 of Scimago Journal Ranking (SJR)
Centre for Social Sciences
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
Publication: Veronika Patkós's new article
Institute for Political Science
Veronika Patkós and András Szántó have recently published an article entitled "Does sophistication increase partisan bias? Evidence from a cross-national analysis" in European Politics and Society.
New Book - Körösény András, Illés Gábor, Gyulai Attila: The Orbán Regime
Institute for Political Science
"The Orbán Regime Plebiscitary Leader Democracy in the Making" written by András Körösényi, Gábor Illés and Attila Gyulai was released on 4th May 2020 at Routledge.
Balogh, Péter – Bujdos, Ágnes – Czibere, Ibolya – Fodor, László – Gabnai, Zoltán – Kovách, Imre – Nagy, János – Bai, Attila (2020) Main Motivational Factors of Farmers Adopting Precision Farming in Hungary
Institute for Sociology
Agronomy, 10(4): 610.
Q1 publication, Impact Factor: 2.259
Ethnic Integration and Interethnic Relations in Schools
Centre for Social Sciences
The latest issue of the journal Intersections EEJSP is now out
Kovách, Imre (and co-authors) (2020): Knowledge and Environmental Citizenship
Institute for Sociology
Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature Switzerland AG, pp. 69-82.
Gerő, Márton – Sik, Endre (2020): The Moral Panic Button: construction and consequences
Institute for Sociology
Routledge. London. p. 39-58.
Koltai, Júlia – Sik, Endre – Simonovits, Bori (2020) Network capital and migration potential
Institute for Sociology
International Journal of Sociology
The New Alliance of Church and State in Hungarian Education Policy
Institute for Minority Studies
Dorottya Szikra (2019) Ideology or Pragmatism? Interpreting Social Policy Change under the System of National Cooperation
Institute for Sociology
In Kovács, J. M. and B. Trencsényi (Eds.) Brave New Hungary: Mapping the System of National Cooperation; Rowman and Littlefield, Lexington Books, 225-241.
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)