Research Interests

electoral behaviour, democratic theory, political identities, political communication, polarisation

Selected Publications

Plesz, Bendegúz, Körösényi András. The opportunities and constraints of successful heresthetical strategies: attitudes, identities, and the framing of the Russian-Ukrainian war in Hungary. East European Politics, 2024, 1-25.

Metz, Rudolf; Plesz Bendegúz (2023): An insatiable hunger for charisma? A follower-centric analysis of populism and charismatic leadership. Leadership 19, 318–338.

Körösényi, András; Veronika Patkós, Bendegúz Plesz and Pál Susánszky (2022): The potentials of heresthetic and rhetoric in an open framing situation: theory and evidence from a survey experiment. Eur. Polit. Sci. Rev. 14, 94–114.

Patkós, Veronika; Bendegúz Plesz (2022): The European Government-Opposition Voter (EGOV) Data Set: Data on the government-opposition status of European voters and party identifiers. Intersect. East European Journal of Society and Politics. 8, 213–217.

Research Projects

2024-today – MORES - Moral Emotions in Politics: How they unite, how they divide (Horizon Europe)

2024-today – What makes political leaders strong? Impression formation, impression management, and identity politics (NKFIH project number: FK 146569)

2022-today – Democracy in the age of identity-politics: Building a realist theory of democracy (NKFIH project number: K 142410)

2021-today – The role of polarization in the formation of undesirable social outcomes (NKFIH project number: FK 137755)

2020-2022 – Return of the Weberian leaders Return of the Weberian leaders: plebiscitary leader democracy as a means of cognition for contemporary political trends (NKFIH project number: K 128139)