July 2023
The Horizon Europe research project proposal MORES – "Moral emotions in politics: how they unite, how they divide" submitted by CSS (project leader Zsolt Boda) was successful and got funding. CSS will lead the European consortium.
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.
Learn more about our EU funded projects:
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.
The annual meeting of CSS took place on 23 March, 2023, where General Director Zsolt Boda presented the results of the previous year.
The scientific performance of CSS kept improving also in 2022.
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Kovács, É. (2023). The Sensual Memory of Shoah: The Meaning of Sound, Touch and Taste in the Culture of Testimonies. In: Jones, S., Woods, R. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Testimony and Culture. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-13794-5_12
Organised by the Computational Social Science – RECENS Research Group of CSS
14–15 September, 2023 :: Centre of Social Science Budapest
The five-year project, funded with over EUR 560 000, is entitled: "The changing global relations of the Visegrad countries in times of war - An artificial intelligence-assisted comparative analysis".
New paper by Ana Stojilovska and her colleagues Energy spaces: bridging scales and standpoints of just energy transitions has been published in the Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning.
Gábriel, D. 2023. The interconnectedness of biographies, migration and gender norms. Intersections. East European Journal of Society and Politics. 9, 1 (Apr. 2023), 62–78. DOI:https://doi.org/10.17356/ieejsp.v9i1.979.
Thursday, 27 April 16.45-18.15.
Speakers: Dorottya Szikra, Central European University and Cristina Rat, University of Babes Bolyai
Discussants: Dorothee Bohle, University of Vienna and Imre Szabo, Central European University
Venue: Konferenzraum, Institute für Politikwissenschaft, Universität Wien. Universitätsstrasse 7 (NIG building), 2nd floor
The Visegrad Fund approved the funding of the grant proposal 'Identifying News Slant in Crisis Communication Using Artificial Intelligence' of the Centre for Social Sciences.
Our Colleague had a discussion about his newest book, Political ethics in illiberal regimes. A realist interpretation
New paper by Rudolf Metz and Bendegúz Plesz "An insatiable hunger for charisma? A follower-centric analysis of populism and charismatic leadership" has been published in Leadership (D1).
Our results
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
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
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
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
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
20 April, 2023
Godfred Bonnah Nkansah – Attila Bartha (2023) Anti-democratic youth? The influence of youth cohort size and quality of democracy on young people’s support for democracy. Contemporary Politics (IF: 1.6999) https://doi.org/10.1080/13569775.2023.2196877
The paper promoted family-based prosocial values—in terms of helping digitally less competent family members—among young adults to build persisting resistance against fake news in an informational autocracy.
13 March, 2023
15 Febuary, 2023
Kovách, I. and Megyesi, G.B. (2023), Motivations of Subsistence Farming in Hungary: Analysis of a Multi-Factored Phenomenon. Rural Sociology. https://doi.org/10.1111/ruso.12476
16 January, 2023
New publication of Szabolcs Számadó with co-authors
