The full issue is available on the journal's website.

From the contents

Rural transitions

    Vegetable growers in the Aranyosszék

    Resources and communities in the mountains

German-Swabian heritage

    German-German dictionary of Hungary

    Language autobiographies

    German literature in Hungary after 1945

    German nationality kindergarten teacher, teacher and teacher training

Workshop  

    The situation of the Ladin community in South Tyrol

    Settlement census in Óbuda in the 1970s

The PLEDGE consortium, with members from the HUN-REN CSS Institute for Political Science, focuses on the emotional dynamics of political grievances and their impact on democratic politics, with the aim of strengthening societal and political resilience.

Udvari, O., Szalma, I. Socio-demographic factors, informal payments and satisfaction with childbirth in the Hungarian context. BMC Pregnancy Childbirth 25, 409 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12884-025-07521-3  (Q1, 2.8)

The study titled "Pandemic policymaking in European populist and liberal democracies: a comparison between Hungary and Portugal" by Marianna Kopasz, our Institute's Senior Research Fellow, Attila Bartha, our Institute's Senior Research Fellow, and Judit Takács, Research Professor of the Institute for Sociology, has been published in the journal "Political Research Exchange".

F. Albert, M. Gerdán, B. Dávid., Z. Brys (2025): Potential protective factors against negative interpersonal influence regarding COVID-19 vaccination - A cross-sectional study on Covid-19 vaccine discussion networks. ELSEVIER https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssaho.2025.101473 (Q1)

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 (Q1)

Hajdu Gábor, Hajdu Tamás: The Experiential Advantage in Consumption: Evidence from Hungary. Social Indicators Research. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11205-025-03565-2 (IF: 2.8, D1)

Our colleague Réka Marchut will give a lecture in German in Erdweg on 19 March 2025, at the workshop entitled Resettlements from a Comparative Perspective. Suotheastern Europe between 1938/1940 and 1945, organised by the Institut für Deutsche Kultur und Geschichte Südosteuropas. Her presentation will be entitled: Minority Policy in Southeastern Europe in the Interwar Period

On March 15, 2025, Dr. István Stumpf was awarded the Széchenyi Prize. On behalf of the entire Institute, we extend our heartfelt congratulations to our retired Senior Research Fellow!

Text as data. Eastern and Central European political discourses from the perspective of computational social science - Part 1