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A new article has been published in the Political Communication journal, entitled "Keep Them Engaged! Investigating the Effects of Self-centered Social Media Communication Style on User Engagement in 12 European Countries". It has been written by Márton Bene, Andrea Ceron, Vicente Fenoll, Jörg Haßler, Simon Kruschinski, Anders Olof Larsson, Melanie Magin, Katharina Schlosser and Anna-Katharina Wurst

A new article entitled "Strikingly similar: Comparing visual political communication of populist and non-populist parties across 28 countries" is now available in the European Journal of Communication. It was authored by Xénia Farkas, Daniel Jackson, Paweł Baranowski,  Márton Bene, Uta Russmann, and Anastasia Veneti.

The Institute for Political Science, Centre for Social Sciences is launching a scholarship programme for BA, MA and PhD students to support scientific work in political science. The programme offers a short-term publication scholarship to increase the international visibility of the academic production of young scholars.  To be eligible for a 2022 Scholarship, a candidate must be an undergraduate/graduate/doctoral student enrolled at a Hungarian University.

The new article of Miklós Sebők, Bálint György Kubik, Csaba Molnár, István Járay and Anna Székely entilted Measuring legislative stability: a new approach with data from Hungary is published in European Political Science.

A new publication entitled "The Polyphonic Sounds of Europe: Users 'Engagement with Parties' European-focused Facebook posts" in the journal Politics & Governance. 

Husz, Ildikó, Kopasz, Marianna and Medgyesi, Márton's new article entitled "Social Workers’ Causal Attributions for Poverty: Does the Level of Spatial Concentration of Disadvantages Matter?" has been published in Social Indicators Research.

Jordá, Beatriz, Cañedo, Azahara, Bene, Márton & Goyanes, Manuel’s new article entitled "Out-of-Place Content: How Repetitive, Offensive, and Opinion-Challenging Social Media Posts Shape Users’ Unfriending Strategies in Spain" has been published in Social Sciences.

New publication of Zsófia Papp, "The Indirect Effect of Electoral Rules on Citizens' Satisfaction with Democracy: A Comparative Study" was published in the Swiss Political Science Review.

New publication of Balázs Böcskei and Eszter Farkas has been published on the “The Loop” website. "The Loop" is the official blog of the ECPR (European Consortium for Political Research).

Rudolf Metz and Réka Várnagy have just published a new article entitled “Mass,” “Movement,” “Personal,” or “Cartel” Party? Fidesz’s Hybrid Organisational Strategy in Politics and Governance.