Current research projects

 

Research Projects of the Institute for Legal Studies

Research Projects of the Institute for Sociology

Research Projects of the Institute for Political Science

Research Projects of the Institute for Minority Studies

POLTEXT - Artificial Intelligence Laboratory 

Computational Social Science Research Group - Actual projects

1. The structure of the Hungarian society

Mobility Research Center
Principal Investigator: Imre Kovách
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Give Kids A Chance Research Group (GKAC)
Principal Investigator: Ildikó Husz
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The school is not an island. Educational and community resilience in a multiethnic environment
Principal Investigator: Attila Papp
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Worker - Society - History: Social History of Labor and Hungarian Workers Society in the 20th Century from the Central European Comparative Point of View
Principal Investigator: Tibor Valuch
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Social mobility and ethnicity: Trajectories, outcomes and hidden Costs of Mobility
Principal Investigator: Judit Durst
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Circulation an Dissent in the Hungarian Cultural Elite
Principal Investigator: Kristóf Luca
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"Chinese person in the family," Chinese-Hungarian relations in Hungary in the light of interethnic relations and Hungarian couple child care providers' experiences with Chinese families
Principal Investigator: Nora Kovacs
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Researching Roma Communities Based on Modern Methodology in the 21st Century
Principal Investigator: Ernő Kállai
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2. Societal groups

Give Kids A Chance Research Group (GKAC)
Principal Investigator: Ildikó Husz
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The school is not an island. Educational and community resilience in a multiethnic environment
Principal Investigator: Attila Papp
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Families in mortgage crisis
Principal Investigator: Csizmady Adrienne
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Educational Models, Educational Strategies - Focus on Roma Community
Principal Investigator: Péter Bogdán
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Researching Roma Communities Based on Modern Methodology in the 21st Century
Principal Investigator: Ernő Kállai
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3. Family, children, gender roles, aging societies

Ideology and pragmatism in politics. The Second and Third Orbán Government's Family Policy
Principal Investigator: Dorothy
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The role of fathers in educating their separated children
Principal Investigator: Ivany Szalma
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Fertility awareness and the efficacy of the ferrite education
Principal Investigator: Ivash
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Institutional reforms in aging societies: legal and political aspects
Principal Investigator: Attila Bartha
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Career Models and Career Advancement in Labor Market Opportunities, Personal Network Building and Work-Life Balance
Principal Investigator: Katalin Tardos
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The impact of the restricitve abortion policy on infants health and socioeconomic one he outcomes of children and parents
Principal Investigator: Gabor Hajdu
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Social History of Homosexuality in 20th Century Hungary before 1990
Principal Investigator: Takács Judit
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4. Education and labor market

Give Kids A Chance Research Group (GKAC)
Principal Investigator: Ildikó Husz
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The school is not an island. Educational and community resilience in a multiethnic environment
Principal Investigator: Attila Papp
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Social mobility and ethnicity: Trajectories, outcomes and hidden Costs of Mobility
Principal Investigator: Judit Durst
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Educational Models, Educational Strategies - Focus on Roma Community
Principal Investigator: Péter Bogdán
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Quality of Jobs and Innovation Generated Employment Outcomes
Principal Investigator: Makó Csaba
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Career Models and Career Advancement in Labor Market Opportunities, Personal Network Building and Work-Life Balance
Principal Investigator: Katalin Tardos
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5. Elements of societal order

ERC No Sword Bites So Fiercely as an Evil Tongue? Gossip Wrecks Reputation, But Enhances Cooperation
Principal Investigator: Takács Károly
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Gossip, Reputation, and Cooperation: Informal Building Blocks of Social Order
Principal Investigator: Szabolcs Counting
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Competition and Negative Networks: The Origin, Dynamics, and Harmful Consequences of Negative Relations
Principal Investigator: Károly Takács
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History of memory in the East: the Hungarian case (1945-2004)
Principal Investigator: Matthew Zombory
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Cultural heritage, social cohesion and place attachment
Principal Investigator: Imre Kovách
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6. Institutions of state, their efficiency and impact on society

Cultural Opposition: Understanding the Cultural Heritage of the Former Socialist Countries (COURAGE)
Principal Investigator: Éva Kovács
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A szakszervezetek részvétele az európai szemeszter folyamatában
Principal Investigator: Albert Fruzsina
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How does the law adapt, resist, and learn? The responsiveness of the Hungarian legal system 2010-2018
Principal Investigator: Fruzsina Gárdos-Orosz
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Intézményi reformok öregedő társadalmakban: jogi és politikai aspektusok
Principal Investigator: Bartha Attila
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Novelties of Criminal Law in Legal Consciousness
Principal Investigator: Hollán Miklós
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Consortional main: The Impact of Punitive Criminal Policy in Sentencing and Its Fiscal Effects
Principal Investigator: Tóth Mihály
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The Quality of Government and Public Policy: A Big Data Approach
Principal Investigator: Sebők Miklós
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Lack of Rights Consciousness in the Legal Cultures of Central-Europe and Balkans. Myth or Reality?
Principal Investigator: Fekete Balázs
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Judicial Constraints on Legislatures in Central Europe
Principal Investigator: Pócza Kálmán
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Policy dynamics in Hungary
Principal Investigator: Boda Zsolt
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Political Europe in the Making: The Consequences of the Politicization of the European Project
Principal Investigator: Szűcs Zoltán Gábor
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Policy Opportunities for Hungary in the European Union: the Analysis of the Legal Framework
Principal Investigator: Varju Márton
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Civil társadalom és a demokratikus intézmények minősége
Principal Investigator: Farkas Eszter
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A piacgazdaság jogi garanciái
Principal Investigator: Mezei Kitti
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7. Political attitude, participation, communication

Political communication in Hungary, 1990 to 2015 (Balázs Kiss)
Principal Investigator: Kiss Balázs
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Participation, Representation, Partisianship. Hungarian Election Study 2018
Principal Investigator: Szabó Andrea
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Surveying the protesters: standardizing methodology and building an online panel of protesters
Principal Investigator: Mikecz Dániel
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Legislator activities and electoral performance
Principal Investigator: Papp Zsófia
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Mapping the radical right populism and their discourses in public spheres: the case of Romania and Hungary
Principal Investigator: Szabó Gabriella
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Populism in policy-making
Principal Investigator: Bartha Attila
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A pártos polarizáció okai és hatásai az európai demokráciákban
Principal Investigator: Patkós Veronika
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Explaining welfare attitudes: general moral principles, issue framing and surves design
Principal Investigator: Janky Béla
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Populism in Policy-making and Law-making
Principal Investigator: Boda Zsolt
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The Paradox of Political Realism
Principal Investigator: Zoltán Balázs
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8. Responsible urban planning, sustainable rural development, environment protection

The sociology of urban planning – urban planning and society
Principal Investigator: Csizmady Adrienne
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Families in mortgage crisis
Principal Investigator: Csizmady Adrienne
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The effect of agricultural and rural development policy on local small-scale agri-food production
Principal Investigator: Megyesi Boldizsár
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Societal challenges of energy use
Principal Investigator: Kőszeghy Lea
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9. Minorities within and beyond the border, minority question in Europe, migration

Székely Self-Image Construction in the 19-20th Century
Principal Investigator: Bárdi Nándor
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Hungarian Minority Communities in the 20th Century (the publication of historical sources and chronologies)
Principal Investigator: Bárdi Nándor
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The Internal Dynamics of Non-Territorial Autonomy Regimes in Central and South-eastern Europe: a Five-Country Comparison
Principal Investigator: Dobos Balázs
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The local and regional activity of German organizations in Hungary between 1924 and 1945.
Principal Investigator: Eiler Ferenc
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Germans in Hungary, 1950-1990
Principal Investigator: Tóth Ágnes
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Bilateral relations and minority protection in Central and South-Eastern Europe
Principal Investigator: Vízi Balázs
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Enhancing Minority Rights Using Group Litigation in Europe (EMULE)
Principal Investigator: Körtvélyesi Zsolt
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Using Collective Procedures to Enforce Minority Group Claims
Principal Investigator: Körtvélyesi Zsolt
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The Institutionalization of Ethnic Economy among Hungarians in Romania and Slovakia
Principal Investigator: Csata Zsombor
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The minority question in Hungarian-Romanian diplomatic relations during the premiership of István Bethlen
Principal Investigator: Marchut Réka
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The media representation of Roma/Gypsy communities
Principal Investigator: Vera Messing
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Mobility and Inclusion in Multilingual Europe
Principal Investigator: Vizi Balázs
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Magyar diaszpóra és diaszpóra-politika
Principal Investigator: Kovács Eszter
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A globális hierarchiák poszt-koloniális és poszt-szocialista percepciója: a hollandiai indonézek és magyarok esete
Principal Investigator: Hunyadi Márton
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Magyarok Németországban
Principal Investigator: Feischmidt Margit
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Genezys 2015. Kárpát-medencei ifjúságkutatás
Principal Investigator: Papp Z. Attila
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A kisebbségi civil-nonprofit szervezetek működési sajátosságai Magyarországon, Romániában és Szlovákiában
Principal Investigator: Morauszki András
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"die helfte hier und die helfte zu hause" A magyarországi németek története, 1944-1953. Dokumentumkötet.
Principal Investigator: Tóth Ágnes
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Zsidó oktatás és gyermekintézmények Magyarországon, 1945-1956
Principal Investigator: Bányai Viktória
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A jiddis kultúra története Magyarországon
Principal Investigator: Komoróczy Szonja
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10. Computational social science, social media, Big Data

Computational Social Science

Regulatory issues of the internet intermediaries (Zsolt Ződi)
Principal Investigator: Ződi Zsolt
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Uncovering Patterns of Social Inequalities and Imbalances in Large-Scale Networks
Principal Investigator: Ságvári Bence
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The Life Cycle of an Online Social Network: Big Data Analysis
Principal Investigator: Ságvári Bence
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Algorithmed Public Spheres
Principal Investigator: Ságvári Bence
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11. New methods in social science research

Computational Social Science

Text Mining and Quantitative Analysis of Political and Legal Texts
Principal Investigator: Miklós Sebők
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(Dis) continuities-Hungarian Sociology between 1960 and 2010
Principal Investigator: Éva Kovács
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Empirical Research and Law - Classification of Legal Systems Using Indices
Principal Investigator: Bence Ságvári
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