Upcoming events
Available in the long term? – ARP Conference 2026
Book launch - EU External Relations Law: Text, Cases and Materials (Hart Publishing 2026)
Whose Academic Freedom Is It Anyway?
Featured news
Tackling poverty and inequality through the tax system. Guest lecture by Adrian Sinfield
Publication: Csaba Békés's new article
Csaba Békés recently published a new article entitled "Hungary 1968: Reform and the challange of the Prague Spring" in "Eastern Europe in 1968. Responses to the Prague Spring and Warsaw Pact invasion" edited by Kevin McDermott és Matthew Stibbe.
Publication: Miklós Sebők's new article
Miklós Sebők and Tamás Berki recently published a new article entitled "Punctuated Equilibrium In Democracy and Autocracy: An Analysis of Hungarian Budgeting Between 1868 and 2013" in European Political Science Review.
Publication: Pál Susánszky's new article
Balázs Majtényi, Ákos Kopper, and Pál Susánszky recently published a new article entitled "Constitutional othering, ambiguity and subjective risks of mobilization in Hungary: examples from the migration crisis" in Democratization.
Publication: Zsófia Papp's new article
Zsófia Papp recently published a new article entitled "Do Personalised Campaigns Hint at Legislator Activities? The (lacking) relationship between campaigns and legislator behaviour in Hungary" in Parliamentary Affairs.
Zsolt Ződi: “Platforms, robots and the Law, New Regulatory Challenges in the Information Society” has been published (in Hungarian)
Our colleagues at CEECOM 2018
Our colleagues participated at 11th Central and Eastern European Communication and Media Conference, CEECOM 2018 from 30 May to 1 June, 2018.
BESTPRAC Group STSM Budapest 2018 - International workshop for research managers
An inspiring knowledge exchange experience - Centre for Social Sciences HAS (CSS HAS/MTA TK) and Central European University hosted and organized a 4-day-long workshop in Budapest for an international team of research managers.
Media Appearance: Miklós Sebők in a political talk show
Miklós Sebők, principal investigator of the POLTEXT text mining project participated in a panel on "Magyarul Balóval", a news show on RTL Klub, the leading Hungarian television channel.
Our results
Who supports involved fatherhood? Structural and individual predictors across 26 countries
22 September, 2026
Shackle or hammer? How polarisation influences political corruption
Dogs, Motherhood, and Reproductive Choices: A Qualitative Study of Women’s Decision-Making in a Pronatalist Country
July, 2026
Ivett Szalma, Lóránt Pélyi, Orsolya Udvari, Kata Mária Udvarhelyi-Tóth, Erika Kispéter, Enikő Kubinyi (2026) Dogs, Motherhood, and Reproductive Choices: A Qualitative Study of Women’s Decision-Making in a Pronatalist Country. Journal of family Issues, First published Jul 7, 2026
Navigating the In-Between: Immigrant Children’s School Integration in Vienna
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.

