Mid-term strategic plan of the Institute for Political Science (summary)
Leading the way in domestic political science: the Institute for Political Science has achieved outstanding publication performance in international journals between 2019 and 2022
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The book "'The Peculiar Four' and Europe. Political Communication in Social Media in the Visegrad Countries before the 2024 European Parliament Elections," co-edited by Márton Bene, has been published by Harrasowitz Verlag.
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).
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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.
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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.
