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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Latest news
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.
Ana Stojilovska and her colleagues have published their articles in the journals Energy Research & Social Science and Energies.
New journal article by András Bíró-Nagy and Áron Szászi ’Controversies of COVID-19 vaccine promotion: lessons of three randomised survey experiments from Hungary’ has been published in Public Health.
Latest posts
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.
