We have a new vacancy in the Institute! The Institute for Political Sciences is seeking to fill a full-time vacancy for a junior research fellow in the area of emotions and politics. Details are below.

Call for Populism and Political Efficacy topics

The Centre for Social Sciences of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences invites interested postdoctoral academics to develop a co-application for a Marie Skłodowska Curie Individual Fellowship (MSCA-IF-2019). The deadline for expressing your interest is May 20, 2019.

The latest ECE issue  - Volume 46 (2019): Issue 1 (Apr 2019) - has got published at Brill. The guest editor of this issue was Tibor Valuch. The set of articles included in the current issue presents a cross section of some of the newest research results of modern East-Central European labor history. The authors thematically investigate different sections and topics of ECE labor history. Even though they are using different methodological approaches, all of them share the common idea of a global perspective on labor issues when analyzing different countries of modern East-Central Europe.

Balázs Böcske and Csaba Molnár recently published a new article entitled "The radical right in government? – Jobbik’s pledges in Hungary’s legislation (2010–2014)" in East European Politics.

We are delighted to announce that Zsófia Papp, Veronika Patkós, and Márton Bene received the Youth Award of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences 2018.

The book ‘Constitutional Politics and the Judiciary: Decision-making in Central and Eastern Europe’ edited by Kálmán Pócza was released on 28th November 2018 at Routledge. The volume uses the methodology and database of JUDICON.

On November 15th, a workshop will be held on „Machine learning applications” in co-operation between MTA SZTAKI and the POLTEXT project of MTA TK. More information (in Hungarian) is available in the attached invitation.