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.
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Featured news
Dániel Mikecz has recently published an article entitled "Claims-making and Morality: The Case of Hungarian Solidarity Movements" in the Czech Journal of Political Science.
Dániel Mikecz has recently published an article entitled "Civil society as a counterbalance to democratic backlash? The civil society master frame and discursive opportunities of politically active civil organizations in Hungary" in the Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe.
Veronika Patkós has recently published an article entitled "Wearing rose-coloured glasses. The happiness effect of party attachments in Europe" (co-authored with Eszter Farkas) in the Journal of Contemporary European Studies
Tamás Barczikay and his colleagues have recently published an article entitled "An investigation of a partial Dutch disease in Botswana" in Resources Policy.
Zoltán Gábor Szűcs has recently published an article entitled "Political obligations in illiberal regimes" in Res Publica.
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Our results
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
Written by Andrea Szabó, András Bozóki, and Zoltán Gábor Szűcs-Zágoni
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.
