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.

Benedek István’s new article, published in the Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe (Q1), re-examines the collapse of the Weimar Republic through contemporary theories of political polarization. The argument is that Weimar was not doomed by polarization alone.

A new study by Marianna Kopasz, Boglárka Herke, and Karolina Balogh has been published in the Q1-ranked journal Children and Youth Services Review. The study examines how 270 Hungarian primary school teachers responded to hypothetical child protection scenarios (vignettes).

A book chapter by Gábor Dobos and Márton Bene has been published in the second volume of Municipal Councillors in Europe, edited by Hubert Heinelt, Björn Egner, Jakub Lysek, and Tom Verhelst.

The study of Áron Hajnal, Veronika Patkós and Aslinur Inalcic in Eastern European Politics examines how different forms of polarisation shape political corruption through a comparative case study of Hungary and Turkey between 2000 and 2022.

Márton Bene and Krisztina Burai's latest book chapter in The Routledge Companion to Social Media and Politics investigates the relationship between populism and social media.