Fulbright scholar Jan Marie Fritz at the Institute for Sociology, CSS HAS
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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
Messing, Vera – Bereményi, Ábel Bálint (2016) Is ethnicity a meaningful category of employment policies for Roma? A comparative case study of Hungary and Spain
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In: Ethnic and Racial Studies (Taylor and Francis). Download here >>
“Artificial Towns” in the 21st Century: Social Polarisation in the New Town Regions of East-Central Europe (Ed. Viktória Szirmai, 2016)
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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)