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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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.
Latest news
Gábor Illés and Tamás László's study titled "Crowds and plebiscitary representation: Rituals of presence in the Orbán regime" has been published in The British Journal of Politics and International Relations.
Gabriella Szabó (HUN-REN TK PTI) and Lenka Vochocová (Charles University, Prague) are organising a panel discussion for the upcoming ECREA conference titled “Cringe Culture in Politics: Exploring Humour, Vulnerability, and Ridicule in the Digital Age.” The organisers are accepting applications for the panel discussion until March 14, 2025.
Cornel Ban, Gergő Medve-Bálint and Clara Volintiru's study titled "The Politics of Developmental Alliances and Municipal Industrial Policy in Central and Eastern European Cities" has been published in the journal Competition & Change (D1).
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).
Latest posts
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.
