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“A Magyar Tudományos Akadémia helyzete és reformlehetőségei” (The Situation and Reform Opportunities of the Hungarian Academy Of Sciences) has just been published
Franklin–Kovách–Csurgó (2017) Governing Social Innovation: Exploring the Role of ‘Discretionary Practice’ in the Negotiation of Shared Spaces of Community Food Growing
SOCIOLOGIA RURALIS 57:(4) pp. 439-458. (2017)
András L. Pap: “Democratic Decline in Hungary: Law and Society in an Illiberal Democracy” has been published
Call for Papers: Juristische Grundlehre 100 – the work in context
2nd Sociology Summit “One Belt and One Road” and Post-Western Sociology
Jan Vávra, Boldizsár Megyesi, Barbora Duží, Tony Craig, Renata Klufová, Miloslav Lapka, Eva Cudlínová (2017) Food Self-provisioning in Europe: An Exploration of Sociodemographic Factors in Five Regions
In: Rural Sociology
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ruso.12180/full
Tamás Hajdu – Gábor Hajdu (2017) The association between experiential and material expenditures and subjective well-being: New evidence from Hungarian survey data
Journal of Economic Psychology, 62, 72-86.
Melanie Kay Smith – Anya Diekmann (2017) Tourism and wellbeing
“Comparative Constitutional Reasoning” (eds. András Jakab, Arthur Dyevre and Giulio Itzcovich) has just been published
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New paper: Compromising Priests and Nuns Under State Socialism
Illiberal Social Policy in Europe. New paper by Dorottya Szikra
9 July, 2025
Szikra, D., & Autischer, L. (2025). Illiberal Social Policy in Europe: When Policy Implementation Meets Welfare Ideas. Politics and Governance, 13, Article 9707. https://doi.org/10.17645/pag.9707
Urban Planning in the Context of Democratic Backsliding
Recently published (17.06.2025):
Kőszeghy Lea, Hilbert Bálint, & Csizmady Adrienne (2025). Urban Planning in the Context of Democratic Backsliding: The Case of Hungary. Urban Planning, Vol 10 (2025): The Role of Planning in ’Anti-Democratic’ Times. Urban Planning, Cogitatio Press. 0.592 (Q1), IF 1.7 (2024)
New book: The Challenges of Artificial Intelligence for Law in Europe
13 May, 2025
The book The Challenges of Artificial Intelligence for Law in Europe published recently by Springer was edited by Márton Varju and Kitti Mezei, as part of the book series Data Science, Machine Intelligence, and Law.
Measuring attitudes towards voluntary childlessness: Indicators in European comparative surveys
20 March, 2025
New publication:
Szalma I, Heers M, Tanturri ML (2025) Measuring attitudes towards voluntary childlessness: Indicators in European comparative surveys. PLOS ONE 20(3): e0319081. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0319081
Mental health risk in human services work across Europe: the predictive role of employment in various sectors
New publication: Ágnes Győri, Éva Perpék, Szilvia Ádám: Mental health risk in human services work across Europe: the predictive role of employment in various sectors. Frontiers in Public Health-ben (Q1, IF: 3)
30 January, 2025
WISE project and OTKA research: Collective for women for solidarity in energy and the energy crisis in Hungary
4 November, 2024
Transport poverty in Hungary
Expert workshop on 9 October, 2024
Long-term impact of unhealthy food tax on consumption and the drivers behind: A longitudinal study in Hungary
Importance of social inequalities to contact patterns, vaccine uptake, and epidemic dynamics
Manna, A., Koltai, J. & Karsai, M. Importance of social inequalities to contact patterns, vaccine uptake, and epidemic dynamics. Nature Communication 15, 4137 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-48332-y