Research Interests

Political representation, political leadership, realism in political theory, democratic theory

Selected Publications

Illés, G., Körösényi, A. 2023. The touch of the leader: representation and responsiveness in plebiscitary leader democracy. DISTINKTION: JOURNAL OF SOCIAL THEORY, 0(0), pp. 1–21.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1600910X.2023.2220086

Illés, G. & Körösényi, A., 2022. From the theater to the hippodrome. CONTEMPORARY POLITICAL THEORY, 21(3), pp. 419–442.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1057/s41296-021-00525-6

Illés, G., 2021. A realista politikus, Budapest: Gondolat Kiadó. https://www.gondolatkiado.hu/szerzo_konyv.php?id=1077

Körösényi, A., Illés, G. & Gyulai, A., 2020. Az Orbán-rezsim - A plebiszciter vezérdemokrácia elmélete és gyakorlata, Budapest: Társadalomtudományi Kutatóközpont Politikatudományi Intézet.

https://osiriskiado.hu/politika-politologia/243-az-orban-rezsim-a-plebiszciter-vezerdemokracia-elmelete-es-gyakorlata.html

Körösényi, A., Illés, G. & Gyulai, A., 2020. The Orbán Regime 1st ed., London: Routledge.

https://www.routledge.com/The-Orban-Regime-Plebiscitary-Leader-Democracy-in-the-Making/Korosenyi-Illes-Gyulai/p/book/9780367147907

Illés, G., Körösényi, A. & Metz, R., 2018. Broadening the limits of reconstructive leadership. BRITISH JOURNAL OF POLITICS AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS, 20(4), pp.790–808.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1369148118775043

Research Projects

Democracy in the age of identity-politics: Building a realist theory of democracy

Work in Progress

Crowds and plebiscitary representation: Rituals of Presence in the Orbán Regime (co-author: Tamás László

The authoritarian side of democratized representation (co-author: András Körösényi)