Gábor Illés

Gábor Illés
Download CV Research Fellow (TK PTI)
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)