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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.
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In the fifth pti memo blog post, we report on a lecture by Boglárka Koller, in which she presented her project titled "Cultivating Our European Resilience and Evolution" (CORE) and its significance. Boglárka Koller is the Head of the Department of European Studies at the University of Public Service, Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic and Regional Studies (KRTK), and Jean Monnet Chair. The lecture was hosted by the HUN-REN CSS Institute for Political Science on May 22, 2025, as part of its Speaker Series.
The latest post of the pti memo blog series offers insights from a thought-provoking lecture by Murat Somer, Professor of Political Science and International Relations at Özyeğin University Istanbul and Research Affiliate at the Democracy Institute of the Central European University. Titled "Quo Vadis in Turkey and Implications for Democracy in the World", the lecture explored current political developments in Turkey and their broader implications on combating democratic backsliding. The event took place on May 8, 2025, as part of the HUN-REN CSS Institute for Political Science’s Speaker Series.
The third blog post of the pti memo series summarises the lecture of Dr. Matthew Edward Bergman, Assistant Professor at Corvinus University of Budapest, titled “Ideological Conflict, Logrolling, and Policy Reform: An Analysis of Government Declarations in Western Europe.” The event was organised as part of the HUN-REN Institute for Political Science’s Speaker Series on April 10, 2025. This research, conducted jointly with Hanna Bäck (Lund University) and Wolfgang C. Müller (Universität Wien), investigates why some governments commit to more reform measures in their government declarations.
The second pti memo post summarises the lecture by Bálint Magyar and Bálint Madlovics, researchers at the CEU Democracy Institute, titled “The Russia-Ukraine War and Its Structural Consequences.” The event was organised as part of the HUN-REN Institute for Political Science’s Speaker Series on February 6, 2025.
Hungary is often portrayed as a problem case for European integration due to frequent clashes between Viktor Orbán’s government and the EU’s institutions. Yet, as András Bíró-Nagy and Gergő Medve-Bálint explain in their post on the LSE EUROPP blog, the country’s 20 years in the EU have also seen a relatively high level of compliance with EU policies and strong support for membership among the public.
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In the first pti memo post, we summarise Christian Baden’s (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) thought-provoking lecture titled “Propaganda as a Social Process.” The lecture was hosted by the HUN-REN Institute for Political Science as part of its Speaker Series event series on January 23, 2025.
