Research Interests

Political institutions and institution building, democratic innovations, political system of the Visegrad countries, electoral and voting behavior of young people, political participation, political socialization.

Research Projects

2019 - Democratic Innovations and Hungarian Parties, Principal Investigator. Centre for Socal Sciences, Institute for Political Sciences, Funding organization: Hungarian Scientific Research Fund (OTKA).

2018 - Cost Action “Constitution Making and Deliberative Democracy”, MC Member, https://constdelib.com/

2016 - Participation, Representation, Partisanship. Hungarian Elections 2018, Researcher. Funding organization: Hungarian Scientific Research Fund (OTKA)

2012- 2014 The Hungarian Policy Agendas Project, Researcher. Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Centre for Socal Sciences, Institute for Political Sciences, Department of Government and Public Policy. Funding organization: Hungarian Scientific Research Fund (OTKA)

Work in Progress

Oross, D., Tap, P. (2021): Using deliberation for partisan purposes: evidence from the Hungarian National Consultation, Innovation: The European Journal of Social Science Research, DOI: 10.1080/13511610.2021.1995335

Oross, D., Mátyás, E., Gherghina, S. (2021): Sustainability and Politics: Explaining the Emergence of the 2020 Budapest Climate Assembly. Sustainability 13 :11 p. 6100 https://doi.org/10.3390/su13116100

Oross D., Tap P.(2021): Moving online: political parties and the internal use of digital tools in Hungary, European Societies, Taylor and Francis Online, online first, https://doi.org/10.1080/14616696.2021.1943485

Oross D., Kiss G. (2021): More than just an experiment? Politicians arguments behind introducing participatory budgeting in Budapest, Acta Politica, online first, https://doi.org/10.1057/s41269-021-00223-6

Oross, D., Róna, D., Szabó, A. (2019): Who Brings the Political Change? Divergent Understandings of Politics Among Politically Active Students. In: Feischmidt, Margit; Majtényi, Balázs (eds.) The Rise of Populist Nationalism: Social Resentments and Capturing the Constitution in Hungary, Budapest, CEU Press, pp. 247-276. , 30 p.

Nagy Á., Oross D. (2018): The tradition of youth work in Hungary - the onion model In: Tanya Basarab, Filip Coussée, Howard Williamson (eds.): The history of youth work - volume 6. Council of Europe Publishing, Strasbourg.

Oross D., Szabó A. (2017): Changing tendencies of youth political participation in Europe: evidence from four different cases In: Michael J. Breen (ed.) Values and Identities in Europe, Evidence from the European Social Survey, Routledge.