“Comparative Constitutional Reasoning” (eds. András Jakab, Arthur Dyevre and Giulio Itzcovich) has just been published
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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
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The archive and the newest issue of Acta Juridica - Hungarian Journal of Legal Studies are available free of charge
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Call for Applications for a Postdoctoral Fellowship in Law (Budapest)
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“The Enforcement of EU Law and Values” (eds. András Jakab and Dimitry Kochenov) has just been published
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Article of András Vörös in Social Networks
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Call for Papers :: Civil society and social movements in the changing democracies of Central and Eastern Europe
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Call for papers: Conference “Institutional Reforms in Ageing Societies”
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Space and society :: Special issue in English No. 4 (2016)
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Call for Contributions - Refugee protection and the European civil society Workshop and publication
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Paksi, V., Nagy, B., & Király, G. (2016) The timing of motherhood while earning a PhD in engineering
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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.