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
The article titled "Political Socialization Scenarios Leading to Party Membership in an Autocratizing Democracy: Insights From an Interview-Based Study", authored by Annamária Sebestyén (our Institute's Research Fellow) has been published in the journal Political Studies (D1).
Tibor Valuch’s study titled "The future of deindustrialization – a social and cultural turn? The future of former industrial landscapes and industrial societies in Central Eastern Europe" has been published in issue 1/2025 of the Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe (Q1, IF: 0.9).
Csilla Zsigmond's book Kötődések hálójában – A nemzeti identitás mintázatai a kisebbségi magyar fiatalok körében [In a web of attachments: Patterns of national identity among minority Hungarian youth] has been published as part of the Szociológiai Tudástár series of the University of Debrecen.
The publication is available for free.
The article of Szilárd Tóth, our Institute's Research Fellow, has been published in Res Publica (Q1). The title of the article is "Why Civic Republicanism Remains a Statist Theory."
The article authored by András Déri and Andrea Szabó, our Institute's Senior Research Fellow, has been published in the journal Frontiers in Political Sciences (Q1). The article's title is "Interpreting political participation as communicative action: a comparison of younger and older adults."
Zoltán Lakner's interview with our colleague Csilla Fedinec in Jelen 2025, 14 July
Zoltán Lakner's interview with our colleague Csilla Fedinec on Szeged TV from 12 July 2025
The full issue is available on the journal's website.
From the contents
Femininity in the prose of Mária Berde, Irén P. Gulácsy, György Dragomán, and Sándor Zsigmond Papp
Parliamentary representation of minorities in Slovakia, Romania, Serbia, and Germany
County officials in Transylvania, 1918–1925
The article by Zuzsanna Sütő: Who Prefers to Stay? Individual and Institutional Factors Supporting Immobility among Minority Hungarian Higher Education Students was published in the journal Treatises and Documents: Journal of Ethnic Studies. You can read the open access article here.
An article by Béni L. Balogh was published in the RUBICON Online column “Central Europe at Versailles”. The article entitled "From soldier to politician. Alexandru Averescu's activities as Prime Minister" can be read here.
Our results
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
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)
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.
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
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
4 November, 2024
Expert workshop on 9 October, 2024
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
