The WISE project, where ELTE Centre for Social Sciences is a consortium member, was one of the winners at the 6th edition of the Energy Poverty Solutions Awards, awarded by STOP Exclusion Énergétique.

Edited by András Bíró-Nagy and Gergő Medve-Bálint, The Path of Hungary’s EU Membership: Navigating Sovereignty, Dependence, and Economic Development has been published by Palgrave Macmillan.

Our institute's researchers, Pal Susanszky, Andrea Szabó, Dániel Mikecz with Sebastian Haunss and Priska Daphi conducted a protest survey at two major demonstrations held on 23 October 2025 in Budapest. The researchers compare the social and demographic composition and political attitudes of participants in the pro-government Peace March and the opposition-organized National March.

On 6, 24, and 25 of November, three workshops on Female Energy Poverty were organized by ELTE Centre for Social Sciences, Institute for Political Science, in cooperation with the Culture Club at ELTE Faculty of Social Sciences as part of the WISE (Women in Solidarity for Energy) and LIGHT (Local Initiatives for Green Housing Transitions) projects. The workshops took place at ELTE Faculty of Social Sciences, were attended by 50 participants altogether, and moderated by Ana Stojilovska, Sára Szabó, and Lili Szücs.

In their latest study, Miklós Sebők, Áron Buzogány, Julia Fleischer, Theresa Gessler, Anna Takács, Sean M. Theriault, and Ákos Holányi examine illiberal policy framings using data from four countries.

Veronika Patkós and Gergő Medve-Bálint have been awarded the National Research, Development and Innovation Fund (NRDI).

Our senior researcher, Rudolf Metz, has published a new article in the International Journal of Public Leadership (Emerald Publishing).

In their recent article published in Public Integrity, Áron Hajnal and József Péter Martin, PhD, examine the effectiveness of the EU-enforced rule-of-law reform package in curbing systemic corruption in Hungary.

The new publication of Eszter Farkas and Gabriella Szabó in Acta Politica explores how individual self-reported unhappiness interrelates with political interactions. 

Zsófia Papp's and Godfred Bonnah Nkansah's latest study in East European Politics examines how democratic norm violations during emergencies affect perceptions of democratic quality.