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
Upcoming events
Dario Elia Tosi: Linguistic Rights of National and Ethnic Minorities
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
Single mothers by choice in Hungary. Motivations for solo motherhood and the importance of genetic ties
The quiet collapse: Authoritarian neoliberalism and the crisis of care of older people in Hungary
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
Electoral Revolution: The Collapse of Hungary’s Electoral Autocracy
May 2026
Written by Andrea Szabó, András Bozóki, and Zoltán Gábor Szűcs-Zágoni
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.

