The New Alliance of Church and State in Hungarian Education Policy
Institute for Minority Studies
European Social Survey chosen as the winner of the LPV Award for 2020
The selection committee for the Lijphart/Przworski/Verba Dataset Award, given annually by the Comparative Politics Section of the American Political Science Association for the best dataset in comparative politics have chosen the European Social Survey (ESS) as the winner of the LPV Award for 2020.
The Committee was impressed with the quality of ESS surveys, their regularity of release, the ease of use of the ESS Website, and the number of important and innovative research projects that have made use of ESS data.
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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Dorottya Szikra (2019) Ideology or Pragmatism? Interpreting Social Policy Change under the System of National Cooperation
Institute for Sociology
In Kovács, J. M. and B. Trencsényi (Eds.) Brave New Hungary: Mapping the System of National Cooperation; Rowman and Littlefield, Lexington Books, 225-241.
Labour relations and employment policies in times of volatility
Institute for Sociology
The special issue of socio.hu has been published
Call for a Visiting Researcher Fellowship
Institute for Political Science
The Institute for Political Science at the Centre for Social Sciences calls for applications for a three-month visiting researcher fellowship in “Public policy in the digital age”. The successful candidate will be affiliated with the Department of Government and Public Policy.
(De-)Democratization and the trajectories of civil society
Institute for Sociology
Incubator project of the Centre for Social Sciences (CSS)
2019-2021
Head of Research: Márton Gerő
China and Eastern Europe: New Presences
Centre for Social Sciences
A Century of Minority Rights - Lessons from the Post-Versailles System
Institute for Minority Studies
Expert seminar organized by the International Centre for Ethnic And Linguistic Diversity Studies and the Department of Russian and East European Studies, Institute of International Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences of Charles University.
Our colleagues, Balázs DOBOS and Balázs VIZI participate in the panel discussion entitled The new challenges and new dividing lines between the ‘West’ and the ‘East’ and the future of the European minority rights regime.
The event takes place at the House of National Minorities, Prague on 6 December 2019.
Publication: Rudolf Metz's and Dániel Oross's new article
Institute for Political Science
Rudolf Metz and Dániel Oross have recently published an article entilted „Strong Personalities’ Impact on Hungarian Party Politics: Viktor Orbán and Gábor Vona” in "Party Leaders in Eastern Europe” edited by Sergiu Gherghina.
Household debt on the peripheries of Europe: new constellations since 2008
Institute for Minority Studies
Workshop organized by Periféria Policy and Research Center.
Our colleague, Judit DURST attends and presents her paper entitled Spiralling debts of low-income households: the case of homemaking
grant (CSOK) in rural Hungary.
The event takes place at the Gólya Cooperative, on 22-23 November, 2019.
Conference call: Social partner involvement in the European Semester
Institute for Sociology
Our results
Member State interests and European Union law
9 April, 2020
Written by Márton Varju, published by Routledge
Humanitarian volunteer initiatives
23 March, 2020
Two papers by Margit Feischmidt and Ildikó Zakariás (Institute for Minority Studies, Centre for Social Sciences)
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