Ana Stojilovska, Senior Research Fellow at our Institute, won a new project titled Local Initiatives for Green Housing Transitions (LIGHT) funded by the European Climate Foundation. The project aims to empower trusted local actors to co-create structural solutions for affordable, low-carbon housing through shared learning and practices in Hungary.

The article titled "Political Socialization Scenarios Leading to Party Membership in an Autocratizing Democracy: Insights From an Interview-Based Study", authored by Annamária Sebestyén (our Institute's Research Fellow) has been published in the journal Political Studies (D1).

Tibor Valuch’s study titled "The future of deindustrialization – a social and cultural turn? The future of former industrial landscapes and industrial societies in Central Eastern Europe" has been published in issue 1/2025 of the Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe (Q1, IF: 0.9).

Csilla Zsigmond's book Kötődések hálójában – A nemzeti identitás mintázatai a kisebbségi magyar fiatalok körében [In a web of attachments: Patterns of national identity among minority Hungarian youth] has been published as part of the Szociológiai Tudástár series of the University of Debrecen.

The publication is available for free.

The article of Szilárd Tóth, our Institute's Research Fellow, has been published in Res Publica (Q1). The title of the article is "Why Civic Republicanism Remains a Statist Theory."

The article authored by András Déri and Andrea Szabó, our Institute's Senior Research Fellow, has been published in the journal Frontiers in Political Sciences (Q1). The article's title is "Interpreting political participation as communicative action: a comparison of younger and older adults."

Zoltán Lakner's interview with our colleague Csilla Fedinec in Jelen 2025, 14 July

Zoltán Lakner's interview with our colleague Csilla Fedinec on Szeged TV from 12 July 2025

The full issue is available on the journal's website.

From the contents

    Femininity in the prose of Mária Berde, Irén P. Gulácsy, György Dragomán, and Sándor Zsigmond Papp

    Parliamentary representation of minorities in Slovakia, Romania, Serbia, and Germany

    County officials in Transylvania, 1918–1925

The article by Zuzsanna Sütő: Who Prefers to Stay? Individual and Institutional Factors Supporting Immobility among Minority Hungarian Higher Education Students was published in the journal Treatises and Documents: Journal of Ethnic Studies. You can read the open access article here.