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My academic self

I am a Marie Curie Fellow at the Department of Social & Political Sciences and the Dondena Centre at Bocconi University.  I work with David Stuckler and his lab on the political economy of health. Before moving to Milan, I worked with Lawrence King as a research fellow at the Department of Sociology in Cambridge.

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Gabor Scheiring

My research focuses on the human price of global economic change and on how this lived experience of class is related to illiberalism. I combine cutting-edge quantitative methods, such as dynamic multilevel modelling, and qualitative methods yielding deep contextual knowledge. As a first-generation academic, I am driven by my personal experience with inequalities. I regard social science as a tool to understand real-world problems and take evidence-based action. This also motivated me as an activist and politician.

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In my PhD thesis and several related publications, I examined the association between deindustrialisation, privatisation, the rise in mortality, desperation and population decline, presenting new evidence on the upstream determinants of the postsocialist demographic crisis. I passed my PhD viva in 2018 without revisions, which is the highest result one can get at Cambridge. My PhD degree was awarded in 2019.

Gabor Scheiring submitting PhD Thesis at the famous Red Door of Cambridge.

Working on the human dimensions of economic change, I realised that the rise of illiberal, authoritarian populism and people’s personal experience with economic change are tightly linked. Based on this insight and my experience in Hungarian politics, I launched a new research project on the political economy of democratic backsliding. My book on the topic has been recently published in Hungarian, with an English-language version forthcoming.

Gabor Scheiring presenting on illiberalism at NED in Washington DC

My research appeared in leading academic journals, such as The Lancet Global Health, Sociology of Health and Illness, or Geoforum. I am currently co-editing a special issue titled 'Neoliberal capitalism and the Visegrád countermovement' for Europe-Asia Studies. I am regularly invited as a guest speaker, both in Europe (e.g. Chatham House) and in the US (Rutgers, Indiana, UMass Amherst). In various capacities, I also have worked with think tanks, such as the Foreign Policy Centre, Transnational Institute or the Friedrich Ebert Foundation. My work regularly features in popular outlets, such as openDemocracy.

Gabor Scheiring

I won several competitive international fellowships. The Cambridge European Trust awarded me a full PhD scholarship. In 2019, my PhD thesis won an international award in political economy, the Joerg Hufschmid Prize. The Independent Social Research Foundation funded my postdoctoral fellowship in political economy at Cambridge. I also spent six months in Washington D.C. as a democracy research fellow at the National Endowment for Democracy

Gabor Scheiring at a workshop in Washington DC

I listed my most important publications and books here on my website. For a full list of my writings see my profiles on researchgate.net or academia.edu. You can also follow my academic work on LinkedIn as well as on google scholar and Twitter.

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If you have any suggestions, comments, or questions, you can contact me here or just send an email to gabor[at] gaboscheiring.com.

Gabor Scheiring

Education

Research Interests

Comparative Political Economy

Democratisation

Neoliberalism

Political Economy of Health

Political Sociology

Development

2009 - 2019

PhD in Sociology - University of Cambridge

Thesis title: The Wounds of Postsocialism: The Political Economy of Mortality and Survival in Deindustrialising Towns in Hungary. Supervisor: Lawrence P. King. 

2005 - 2007

MA in Sociology and Economics


Corvinus University of Budapest, Budapest

2004 - 2005

MA in Sociology and Social Anthropology

 

Central European University (CEU), Budapest

1999 - 2002

BA in Economics

 

Budapest Business School

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