Centre for Social Sciences in H2020 and Horizon Europe
Established in 2012, the Centre for Social Sciences (CSS), a Centre of Excellence of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, is currently a partner in nine EU-funded projects within the frameworks of both Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe. This amounts to over €1.3 million in funding for excellent and innovative research.
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CSS is part of the Eötvös Loránd Research Network, an independent public institution managed by a 13-member Governing Board and accountable to the Hungarian Parliament. CSS is classified as a public budgetary institution, making it eligible not only to submit proposals to any EU funding programme but also to participate in EU-funded projects as a coordinator, partner, or sole beneficiary.
Featured news
Publication: Xénia Farkas and Márton Bene's new article
Xénia Farkas and Márton Bene have recently published an article entitled "Images, Politicians, and Social Media: Patterns and Effects of Politicians’ Image-Based Political Communication Strategies on Social Media" in the International Journal of Press/Politics.
Publication: Gergő Medve-Bálint's new article
Gergő Medve-Bálint and his colleagues have recently published an article entitled "North and South, East and West: Is It Possible to Bridge the Gap?" in Governance and Politics in the Post-Crisis European Union edited by Coman, Ramona, Amandine Crespy, és Vivien Ann Schmidt (Cambridge University Press)
Publication: Pál Susánszky's new article
Pál Susánszky and his colleagues have recently published an article entitled "Radical-Right Political Activism on the Web and the Challenge for European Democracy: A Perspective from Eastern and Central Europe" in Democracy and Fake News Information Manipulation and PostTruth Politics edited by Serena Giusti and Elisa Piras (Routledge).
Ildikó Zakariás, Margit Feischmidt: ‘We Are That In-Between Nation’: Discourses of Deservingness of Hungarian Migrants Working in Institutions of Refugee Accommodation in Germany
SOCIOLOGY, First published 29 August 2020. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0038038520941690 Impact factor: 3,068.
Publication: Dániel Mikecz's new article
Dániel Mikecz has recently published an article entitled "Claims-making and Morality: The Case of Hungarian Solidarity Movements" in the Czech Journal of Political Science.
Publication: Dániel Mikecz's new article
Dániel Mikecz has recently published an article entitled "Civil society as a counterbalance to democratic backlash? The civil society master frame and discursive opportunities of politically active civil organizations in Hungary" in the Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe.
Publication: Veronika Patkós's new article
Veronika Patkós has recently published an article entitled "Wearing rose-coloured glasses. The happiness effect of party attachments in Europe" (co-authored with Eszter Farkas) in the Journal of Contemporary European Studies
Publication: Tamás Barczikay's new article
Tamás Barczikay and his colleagues have recently published an article entitled "An investigation of a partial Dutch disease in Botswana" in Resources Policy.
Publication: Zoltán Gábor Szűcs's new article in Res Publica
Zoltán Gábor Szűcs has recently published an article entitled "Political obligations in illiberal regimes" in Res Publica.
Our results
Attitudes Toward Immigration in Europe. New publication by Ivett Szalma
Ivett Szalma & Marieke Heers (2024) Attitudes Toward Immigration in Europe. Understanding the Links Between Pronatalism and Voluntary Childlessness, International Journal of Sociology, DOI: 10.1080/00207659.2024.2319420
Anti-pluralism, labour market policy and the pandemic: Political uses and social consequences of COVID-19 in Hungary
Gárdos, J., Hungler, S., & Illéssy, M. (2024) Anti-pluralism, Labour Market Policy and the Pandemic: Political Uses and Social Consequences of COVID-19 in Hungary. Social & Legal Studies, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/09646639241233939. Online first. Q1.
New publication: Solidarity with displaced People from Ukraine in Hungary
Shrinking space. The changing political opportunities of advocacy groups in illiberal governance
Zsolt Boda's latest paper
Identification of social scientifically relevant topics in an interview repository: a natural language processing experiment
Judit Gárdos, Julia Egyed-Gergely, Anna Horváth, Balázs Pataki, Roza Vajda, András Micsik
Paper published in the Journal of Documentation, on 13 October 2023
Beyond multidirectional memory: Opening pathways to politics and solidarity
15 June, 2023
Recently published:
Kékesi, Z., & Zombory, M. (2023). Beyond multidirectional memory: Opening pathways to politics and solidarity. Memory Studies, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/17506980231176040
Illés–Körösényi: The touch of the leader. Representation and responsiveness in plebiscitary leader democracy
June 2023
Gábor Illés & András Körösényi (2023) The touch of the leader: representation and responsiveness in plebiscitary leader democracy, Distinktion: Journal of Social Theory, DOI: 10.1080/1600910X.2023.2220086
A safety net against populism? An investigation of the interaction effect of political efficacy and democratic capacities on populist attitudes
June 2023
New publication: Márton Bene & Zsolt Boda (2023) A safety net against populism? An investigation of the interaction effect of political efficacy and democratic capacities on populist attitudes, Political Research
Populist radical-right governments in Central-Eastern Europe and education policy-making: a comparison of Hungary and Poland
June 2023
Recently published:
Eszter Neumann & Paweł Rudnicki (2023) Populist radical-right governments in Central-Eastern Europe and education policy-making: a comparison of Hungary and Poland, Journal of Contemporary European Studies
Agency of Migrant youth in hostile sociopolitical environments: Case studies from Central Eastern Europe
April 2023
Arendas, Zsuzsanna, Agnieszka Trąbka, Vera Messing, Marta Jadviga Pietrusińska, and Dominika Winogrodzka. 2023. "Agency of Migrant Youth in Hostile Sociopolitical Environments: Case Studies from Central Eastern Europe" Social Sciences 12, no. 4: 210. https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci12040210