On March 15, 2025, Dr. István Stumpf was awarded the Széchenyi Prize. On behalf of the entire Institute, we extend our heartfelt congratulations to our retired Senior Research Fellow!
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Zsanett Pokornyi, our Institute's Junior Research Fellow and her co-author’s study, “The Role of Legitimacy in Shaping Tax Morale: The Case of Hungary”, has been published in the journal East European Politics and Societies.
The study titled "Pandemic policymaking in European populist and liberal democracies: a comparison between Hungary and Portugal" by Marianna Kopasz, our Institute's Senior Research Fellow, Attila Bartha, our Institute's Senior Research Fellow, and Judit Takács, Research Professor of the Institute for Sociology, has been published in the journal "Political Research Exchange".
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The study titled "The Irresistible Allure of Charismatic Leaders? Populism, Social Identity, and Polarisation" by Rudolf Metz and Bendegúz Plesz, our Institute's researchers, has been published in the journal "Politics and Governance" (Q1).
The study titled "Regeneration of Military Brownfield Sites: A Possible Tool for Mitigating Urban Sprawl?" by Tamás Kovalcsik, our Institute's Research Fellow, has been published in the journal "Land" (Q1) (other authors: Bence Szabó and Zoltán Kovács).
The book chapter titled "Parental involvement and school choice in Hungarian primary schools" by Gabriella Pusztai, Hajnalka Fényes and Péter Róbert, our Institute's Research Professor, has been published in the book "School Choice in Europe" (Routledge).
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On March 15, 2025, Dr. István Stumpf was awarded the Széchenyi Prize. On behalf of the entire Institute, we extend our heartfelt congratulations to our retired Senior Research Fellow!
The Directorate of our Institute has announced the “Researcher of the Year” and the “Young Researcher of the Year” awards, recognizing the outstanding scientific achievements of two of our colleagues in 2024.
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The study titled "International Organisations Legitimation in the Media in Eurasian Post-Socialist Countries" by Krzysztof Rybinski and Orsolya Ring, our Institute's Research Fellow, has been published in the journal "Intersections. East European Journal of Society and Politics".
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A co-authored study by István Benedek, a Research Fellow at our Institute, titled “Return to Power: The Illiberal Playbook from Hungary, Poland, and the United States”, has been published in the journal Politics in Central Europe.
Miklós Sebők, Csaba Molnár and Anna Takács's study titled "Levelling up quantitative legislative studies on Central-Eastern Europe:: Introducing the ParlText CEE Database of Speeches, Bills, and Laws" has been published in the journal "Intersections. East European Journal of Society and Politics".
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The third blog post of the pti memo series summarises the lecture of Dr. Matthew Edward Bergman, Assistant Professor at Corvinus University of Budapest, titled “Ideological Conflict, Logrolling, and Policy Reform: An Analysis of Government Declarations in Western Europe.” The event was organised as part of the HUN-REN Institute for Political Science’s Speaker Series on April 10, 2025. This research, conducted jointly with Hanna Bäck (Lund University) and Wolfgang C. Müller (Universität Wien), investigates why some governments commit to more reform measures in their government declarations.
The second pti memo post summarises the lecture by Bálint Magyar and Bálint Madlovics, researchers at the CEU Democracy Institute, titled “The Russia-Ukraine War and Its Structural Consequences.” The event was organised as part of the HUN-REN Institute for Political Science’s Speaker Series on February 6, 2025.
Hungary is often portrayed as a problem case for European integration due to frequent clashes between Viktor Orbán’s government and the EU’s institutions. Yet, as András Bíró-Nagy and Gergő Medve-Bálint explain in their post on the LSE EUROPP blog, the country’s 20 years in the EU have also seen a relatively high level of compliance with EU policies and strong support for membership among the public.
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In the first pti memo post, we summarise Christian Baden’s (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) thought-provoking lecture titled “Propaganda as a Social Process.” The lecture was hosted by the HUN-REN Institute for Political Science as part of its Speaker Series event series on January 23, 2025.
