The study by Avlijaš, Sonja, Bohle, Dorothee, Medve-Bálint, Gergő and Simons, Jasper .P. explores how Central and Eastern European (CEE) member states have adjusted their domestic policies in response to changes in EU economic governance since the 2008 financial crisis.
A joint study by our research fellow, Annamária Sebestyén, and research professor, Andrea Szabó, has been published in Democratization (Taylor & Francis), an international journal ranked in the D1 category.
The Budapest Academic Freedom Initiative (BAFI) held its first project workshop on the 13th of October, 2026, at the premises of ELTE Centre for Social Sciences (ELTE CSS), Institute for Political Science .
The article of Artúr Baranyai Attila Gyulai and István Üveges has been published in teh journal of npj Climate Action (Impact factor: 5.8, Q1 in Environmental Science). The study examines how Members of the European Parliament justify their positions in EU climate politics by analysing political reasoning in legislative debates on the European Green Deal.
The paper published in Environmental Communication by Dániel Oross , Dániel Mikecz, and Dominik Rákos addresses how the visual framing practices of the youth climate movement in Hungary challenge or reinforce post-political environmental discourse.
Although research on historical trauma and political behaviour has yielded conflicting findings, little is known about family-transmitted trauma under democratic backsliding. Annamária Sebestyén's study in East European Politics examines associations between types of family-transmitted trauma and political participation.
Gabriella Szabó's and István Benedek's article in Central European Journal of Communication examines cringe communication as an emerging form of affective political communication that combines mockery, moral judgement, and partisan mobilization.
Ana Stojilovska, Senior Research Fellow at PTI, published a book chapter about gendered energy poverty in the International Handbook of Women and Poverty by Bloomsbury Academic
How does a political leader become charismatic on social media? In Charisma goes viral: Péter Magyar and the digital construction of political authority, Rudolf Metz, Eszter Farkas and Veronika Kövesdi examine this question through the case of Péter Magyar’s rapid political rise in 2024.
A growing number of subregional groups influence European Union policy-making as platforms of information exchange, expertise pooling or compromise-building. Yet, our understanding of how they function as policy-making actors remains limited. Ákos Holányi's article seeks to alleviate this knowledge gap by developing the concept of subregional actorness and proposing an empirical typology based on political will and policy convergence.
