Gabor Scheiring, PhD

Gábor Scheiring is an Assistant Professor of Comparative Politics at Georgetown University Qatar. He previously served as a Visiting Fellow at Harvard University's Center for European Studies and as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Cambridge and Bocconi University. His research explores the political economy and lived experiences of contemporary economic transformations through quantitative, qualitative, and comparative methods. He focuses on how economic shocks create precarity, leading to mental and physical suffering, and how these processes impact democratic stability. His book, The Retreat of Liberal Democracy (Palgrave, 2020), which won the BASEES 2021 Book Award, examines how working-class dislocation and elite co-optation foster illiberalism in Hungary. His work has been published in leading journals such as the British Journal of Political Science, Socio-Economic Review, Theory and Society, Lancet Global Health, the Annual Review of Sociology, and the Cambridge Journal of Economics. As a member of the Hungarian Parliament (2010–2014), he advocated for a socially just transition to sustainability.