Our researchers at ECPR General Conference in Wrocław, Poland
Institute for Political Science
Many of our researchers attended at ECPR General Conference held in Wrocław, Poland from 3 to 7 September
Certificate of Research Excellence
Since the Centre for Social Sciences has complied with the requirements of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences which follow international standards it has been authorised to use the label Hungarian Academy of Sciences Centre of Excellence, according to the Certificate of Excellence awarded recently.
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PhD Conference - Call For Contributions
Institute for Political Science
The study of political phenomena has attracted scholars from different disciplines (such as comparative politics, political economy, political sociology and political communication), who approach intertwined questions from distinct perspectives. The resulting discourses, however, rarely engage with each other, while a comprehensive understanding of politics requires the joint application of diverse theoretical and methodological approaches, as well as syntheses of their results. This year’s instalment of our graduate conference, organised for the fifth time, aims to promote joint discourse and reflection by providing a forum for doctoral candidates and (post)graduate students engaged in political research
CAP receives Lijphart/Przeworski/Verba dataset award at APSA
Institute for Political Science
This weekend at APSA, Bryan Jones accepted the Lijphart/Przeworski/Verba award for best dataset on behalf of Comparative Agendas Project for its important contribution to comparative politics. The Hungarian CAP team was represented by its research director, Miklós Sebők
Call for Papers: Passionate Europe. An expressive turn in European parliamentary election campaign communication and media discourses
Centre for Social Sciences
Four new projects are to be launched funded by the Incubator - Collaborative Research Projects Fund
Centre for Social Sciences
23 August, 2019
The 2019 Annual Meeting of Gypsy Lore Society and Conference on Romani Studies at the University of Iceland, Reykjavík
Institute for Minority Studies
Our colleague, Péter BOGDÁN will attend and present the paper entitled Ethnic support groups and the minority culture of (educational) mobility: An institutional ethnography from North Hungary, written together with Judit DURST.
The event will take place at the University of Iceland, 15-17 August 2019.
The conference program can be read here.
Migration, Exile, and Diaspora in Historical Perspective. Conference at the Department of History, CEU, Budapest
Institute for Minority Studies
Our colleague, Ildikó ZAKARIÁS will give a lecture at the conference on 13 August 2019.
Title of her lecture: Producing deservingness, managing vulnerability – refugee representations of Hungarian migrants working in the German reception system
The conference program can be read here.
CSS HAS researchers participate in the Annual Conference of the European Sociological Association
Centre for Social Sciences
Assya Kavrakova: Without Citizens' perspectives, We Won't Understand Populism
Institute for Political Science
Populism has been widely studied by academia. Yet, studies haven’t ascertained how citizens react to populism, nor how populism affects them. Check out interview with European Citizen Action Service (ECAS) executive director Assya Kavrakova and find out how DEMOS's action research fills that gap and how it will try to detect populist fakenews.
Horizontal and Vertical Populism: The case of UKIP and Brexit
Institute for Political Science
UKIP employed a fusion-strategy, which merged their traditional critique of Europe with a critique of immigration, as a way of overcoming the low electoral salience of the EU
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Book panel on Christopher McCrudden’s “Litigating Religions – An Essay on Human Rights, Courts, and Beliefs”
09.12.2019.
Talk of integration is a sideshow in a society where many feel unheard
28 April, 2019, The Guardian's article on migration, with reference to ESS data and study by Vera Messing and Bence Ságvári (Institute for Sociology, Centre for Social Sciences of HAS)
Resident Resistance to Overtourism in Budapest
Written by Melanie Kay Smith (Institute for Social Sciences)
1 April, 2019
No Sword Bites So Fiercly as an Evil Tongue? Gossip Wrecks Reputation, but Enhances Cooperation (EVILTONGUE)
An introduction with video to the project funded by the European Research Council
Research results of the Institute for Political Science in 2018
Research results of the Institute for Minority Studies in 2018
Research results of the Institute for Legal Studies in 2018
Research results of the Institute for Sociology in 2018
The activities of the research group Give Kids a Chance in 2018
The research team provides professional-methodological support for district and settlement programs aimed at improving children's chances and preventing the reproduction of disadvantages in the framework of a European Union co-financed consortium tender (EFOP-1.4.1-15 "Professional Support for Integrated Program for Children"). The primary objective and task of the research group is to assist the planning of Hungarian social policy interventions with policy-oriented research, analysis and evaluation.