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.
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
Institute for Minority Studies
A Romanian-language article by Béni L. Balogh has been published in issue 1-2/2025 of the quarterly journal Arhivele Totalitarismului (Archives of Totalitarianism), published by the National Institute for the Study of Totalitarianism (Institutul Naţional pentru Studiul Totalitarismului) in Bucharest. The title of the article is "Cotitura de stânga al lui Petru Groza la sfârșitul anilor 1920, începutul anilor 1930" ("Petru Groza's left-wing turn at the end of the 1920s and the beginning of the 1930s").
Institute for Sociology
Paksi, Veronika – Tardos, Katalin – Takács, Judit – Suhajda, Ccilla Judit – Mazancová, Jana – Bojnec, Stefan – Kobolák, Julianna (2025) Gender Equality Barriers in Agriculture and Life Sciences in Central European Universities. Social Inclusion, 13, Article 10086. https://doi.org/10.17645/si.10086
Institute for Sociology
Szalma, I., & Pélyi, L. (2025). Selective Pronatalism and Reproductive Autonomy: Attitudes Toward Medically Assisted Reproduction in Hungary.
Social Inclusion (Q2, IF: 1.2) https://doi.org/10.17645/si.10390
Institute for Minority Studies
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Satu Mare is organizing a conference on August 7-8, 2025 titled "Sathmarland, du meine Heimat" The Swabians of Sathmar from the Settlement to the Present Day. Two of our colleagues will also give presentations at the conference. The title of Ferenc Eiler's presentation is: "Dangerous Friends" The Fundamental Dilemmas of German-Hungarian Cooperation in Romania. The title of Réka Marchut's presentation is: The Swabians of Sathmar and the Catholic Church during the Years of the Second World War (1940-1944). Réka Marchut is also a member of the conference's organizing team.
Institute for Political Science
Ana Stojilovska, Senior Research Fellow at our Institute, won a new project titled Local Initiatives for Green Housing Transitions (LIGHT) funded by the European Climate Foundation. The project aims to empower trusted local actors to co-create structural solutions for affordable, low-carbon housing through shared learning and practices in Hungary.
Institute for Political Science
The article titled "Political Socialization Scenarios Leading to Party Membership in an Autocratizing Democracy: Insights From an Interview-Based Study", authored by Annamária Sebestyén (our Institute's Research Fellow) has been published in the journal Political Studies (D1).
Institute for Political Science
Tibor Valuch’s study titled "The future of deindustrialization – a social and cultural turn? The future of former industrial landscapes and industrial societies in Central Eastern Europe" has been published in issue 1/2025 of the Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe (Q1, IF: 0.9).
Institute for Minority Studies
Csilla Zsigmond's book Kötődések hálójában – A nemzeti identitás mintázatai a kisebbségi magyar fiatalok körében [In a web of attachments: Patterns of national identity among minority Hungarian youth] has been published as part of the Szociológiai Tudástár series of the University of Debrecen.
The publication is available for free.
Institute for Political Science
The article of Szilárd Tóth, our Institute's Research Fellow, has been published in Res Publica (Q1). The title of the article is "Why Civic Republicanism Remains a Statist Theory."
Institute for Political Science
The article authored by András Déri and Andrea Szabó, our Institute's Senior Research Fellow, has been published in the journal Frontiers in Political Sciences (Q1). The article's title is "Interpreting political participation as communicative action: a comparison of younger and older adults."
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
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.