POOR HEALTH AND HOSTILITY TOWARD IMMIGRANTS?
New study traces how ill health translates into anti-immigrant sentiment.
May 13, 20252 min read
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Gabor Scheiring, PhD
Political Economist, Public Sociologist
DOI.ORG
ALJAZEERA
OP-ED ON TRUMP'S TRADE WAR IN AL JAZEERA
Trump’s tariffs are failing, but the old model won’t save us either. Trade wars won’t save workers. A new economic order can.
May 21, 20255 min read
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
IT'S THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Thrilled to share our article just out in the British Journal of Political Science. The first meta-analysis of the evidence of a causal association between economic insecurity and populism provides a definite answer confirming that economic insecurity is a robust cause. Abstract The literature on populism is divided on whether economic factors are significant and robust causes of populism. To clarify this, we performed the first systematic review and meta-analysis of the evid
Feb 22, 20241 min read
THE CONVERSATION
ECONOMIC INSECURITY CAUSES POPULISM
In this article in The Conversation, I dive into our first-of-its-kind meta-analysis published in the British Journal of Political Science.
Jul 2, 20245 min read
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SOCIOLOGY
POPULAR POLITICS AND THE PATH TO DURABLE DEMOCRACY
Happy to share my review of Ali Kadivar's excellent book on the social foundations of democracies, just out in the American Journal of Sociology. From Seymour Lipset to Stein Rokkan, sociologists were central in establishing the discipline of comparative politics, studying regime change. However, if you attend any conference today on democracy, you will hear much less about the social fabric of democracies than about its formal dimensions. Sociology has become peripheral in t
May 1, 20241 min read
POLITICO
MY ARTICLE IN POLITICO
I Watched Orbán Destroy Hungary’s Democracy. Here’s My Advice for the Trump Era.
Nov 23, 20249 min read
THE ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF AUTOCRATIZATION
SOCIAL CLASSES AND AUTOCRATIZATION
I contributed a chapter to the Routledge Handbook of Autocratization. ABSTRACT This chapter reviews the role of social class dynamics behind autocratization. The first section revisits modernization theorists’ arguments about why the business class might be against autocracy and in favor of democratization. However, several sociologists and critical political economists have been skeptical about the mutually beneficial relationship between capitalism and democracy and the sup
Feb 1, 20241 min read
THE CONVERSATION
MY ARTICLE ON THE CONVERSATION
I watched Hungary’s democracy dissolve into authoritarianism as a member of parliament − and I see troubling parallels in Trumpism
Mar 13, 20244 min read
DOI.ORG
POOR HEALTH AND HOSTILITY TOWARD IMMIGRANTS?
New study traces how ill health translates into anti-immigrant sentiment.
May 13, 20252 min read
ALJAZEERA
OP-ED ON TRUMP'S TRADE WAR IN AL JAZEERA
Trump’s tariffs are failing, but the old model won’t save us either. Trade wars won’t save workers. A new economic order can.
May 21, 20255 min read
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
IT'S THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Thrilled to share our article just out in the British Journal of Political Science. The first meta-analysis of the evidence of a causal association between economic insecurity and populism provides a definite answer confirming that economic insecurity is a robust cause. Abstract The literature on populism is divided on whether economic factors are significant and robust causes of populism. To clarify this, we performed the first systematic review and meta-analysis of the evid
Feb 22, 20241 min read
THE CONVERSATION
ECONOMIC INSECURITY CAUSES POPULISM
In this article in The Conversation, I dive into our first-of-its-kind meta-analysis published in the British Journal of Political Science.
Jul 2, 20245 min read
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SOCIOLOGY
POPULAR POLITICS AND THE PATH TO DURABLE DEMOCRACY
Happy to share my review of Ali Kadivar's excellent book on the social foundations of democracies, just out in the American Journal of Sociology. From Seymour Lipset to Stein Rokkan, sociologists were central in establishing the discipline of comparative politics, studying regime change. However, if you attend any conference today on democracy, you will hear much less about the social fabric of democracies than about its formal dimensions. Sociology has become peripheral in t
May 1, 20241 min read
POLITICO
MY ARTICLE IN POLITICO
I Watched Orbán Destroy Hungary’s Democracy. Here’s My Advice for the Trump Era.
Nov 23, 20249 min read
THE ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF AUTOCRATIZATION
SOCIAL CLASSES AND AUTOCRATIZATION
I contributed a chapter to the Routledge Handbook of Autocratization. ABSTRACT This chapter reviews the role of social class dynamics behind autocratization. The first section revisits modernization theorists’ arguments about why the business class might be against autocracy and in favor of democratization. However, several sociologists and critical political economists have been skeptical about the mutually beneficial relationship between capitalism and democracy and the sup
Feb 1, 20241 min read
THE CONVERSATION
MY ARTICLE ON THE CONVERSATION
I watched Hungary’s democracy dissolve into authoritarianism as a member of parliament − and I see troubling parallels in Trumpism
Mar 13, 20244 min read
GÁBOR SCHEIRING
Tracing the path of the polycrisis of liberal globalism, while mapping the responses
that foster economic and political revival.
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