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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Katona, Noémi – Melegh, Attila (Eds.) (2020) Towards a scarcity of care? Tensions and contradictions in transnational elderly care systems in central and eastern Europe
Available here.
CfP - Challenges of Democratic Innovations in Europe (Research Workshop)
In democratic political systems, the main actors of representative democracy are party leaders, elected parliamentarians, and cabinet members. In addition to these, there are other ways of decision-making in a democratic political system such as participatory and deliberative democracy. These involve citizens and non-governmental organizations that aim to improve the social acceptance and effectiveness of political decisions. Research on democratic innovations focuses on successful practices and methods aimed at changing democratic governance and political structures to improve them. Such innovations range from direct democracy (e.g. referendums, agenda initiatives, recall) to deliberative practices (e.g. deliberative polling, consultative mini-publics, participatory budgeting etc.) in offline and online settings.
Reproductive politics and sex education in Cold War Europe - Special Issue (2020) (eds. Eszter Varsa - Dorottya Szikra)
History of the Family, 25(4). Open access >>
Ochsner, Michael – Szalma Ivett – Takács, Judit (Eds.) Division of Labour within Families, Work–Life Conflict and Family Policy. Thematic Issue of Social Inclusion, 2020, 8, 4
Albert, Fruzsina – Hajdu, Gábor – Dávid, Beáta (2020) Egocentric Contact Networks of Older Adults: Featuring Quantity, Strength and Function of Ties
Struggles over Europe: Postcolonial East/West Dynamics of Race, Gender and Sexuality
POLTEXT’s proposal for ParlaMint’s ‘Call for New Languages’ has been successful
POLTEXT’s proposal for ParlaMint’s ‘Call for New Languages’ has been successful and POLTEXT will now have the opportunity to contribute parliamentary corpora to ParlaMint’s (CLARIN) collection.
Publication: Miklós Sebők and Zoltán Kacsuk's article
Miklós Sebők and Zoltán Kacsuk have published an article entitled ’The Multiclass Classification of Newspaper Articles with Machine Learning: The Hybrid Binary Snowball Approach’ in Political Analysis.
Position available at Centre for Social Sciences: ESR7 - Housing crisis and its impact on adequate housing
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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