Mid-term strategic plan of the Institute for Political Science (summary)
Leading the way in domestic political science: the Institute for Political Science has achieved outstanding publication performance in international journals between 2019 and 2022
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The primary objective of the Institute for Political Science of the Centre for Social Sciences (CSS) is to conduct basic research in political science. Researchers at the Institute conduct both theoretical and empirical research, and the results are disseminated to both the academic and general public at scientific and professional forums.
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Our Institute's research fellow presented about the good practices for tackling transport poverty in Hungary together with Lea Kőszeghy (CSS Institute for Sociology) on the 11th of December.
Research fellow Ana Stojilovska and project assistant Sára Szabó represented our Institute in the WISE Pan-European Conference which took place on the 6th of December 2024 in Sofia, Bulgaria.
New journal article by Eszter Bartha and Tibor Valuch ’Making or Faking Capitalism? Socialist Dreams and Postsocialist Experiences in East-Central Europe’ has been published in the Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe (Q1).
Marianna Kopasz and her co-authors Tamás Bartus and Ildikó Husz have published their study “The role of the family’s ethnicity and correlates in social workers’ risk perceptions: Evidence from a vignette study in Hungary” in Children and Youth Services Review (Q1; IF: 2.4).
New journal article by Attila Bartha and Zsolt Boda ’Tax Compliance Motivations During Corruption Scandals in a Fragile Democracy: A Before-and-After Study’ has been published in Europe-Asia Studies (D1: History, Q1: Sociology and Political Science, IF: 1.2).
István Benedek has published his study ’Populist autocratization and populist electoral autocracies: towards a unified conceptual framework’ in Comparative European Politics (Q1, IF=3.1).
András Bíró-Nagy and Áron Szászi have published their study ’The roots of Euroscepticism: Affective, behavioural and cognitive anti-EU attitudes in Hungary’ in Sociology Compass (Q1, IF=3.1).
New monography by Tibor Valuch 'Contemporary Hungarian Society - Social Changes in Hungary from Late State Socialism' has been published by Routledge.
Attila Bartha and his co-authors Gabriel Asante and György Gajduschek have published their study "A social problem or a sacred promise? Explaining the mechanisms driving fee-free educational policy change in Ghana" in the journal Policy Studies (Q1, IF: 2.2).
Marianna Kopasz and her co-authors Ágnes Győri, Ildikó Husz and Márton Medgyesi published their study "Does attending to extremely poor clients increase the burnout of social workers?" in the European Journal of Social Work.