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Deindustrialization and the postsocialist mortality crisis
Why did 7M people die prematurely in Eastern Europe during the transition in the 90s? In our paper in the Cambridge Journal of Economics,...
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Gabor Scheiring, PhD
Political Economist, Public Sociologist
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gaborscheiring
- Mar 15
- 1 min
The politics of growth models and populism
In my new essay, The Politics of Growth Models and Populism in East-Central Europe, I embed my research on populism in the growth model...
gaborscheiring
- Jun 17, 2022
- 1 min
My book reviewed in AJS
The American Journal of Sociology published a review of my book, The retreat of liberal democracy.
gaborscheiring
- Jun 16, 2022
- 12 min
New Perspectives on Deindustrialization
New Perspectives on Deindustrialization as Socio-Economic Disintegration - Our essay with Anne-Marie Jeannet for the SASE blog.
gaborscheiring
- Apr 22, 2022
- 5 min
Deindustrialization, social disintegration, and health
This article for the Marxist Sociology Blog presents a novel theory on deindustrialization, social disintegration, and health.
gaborscheiring
- Apr 12, 2022
- 1 min
Deaths of Despair in Comparative Perspective
In our new Annual Review of Sociology article, we compare the American Deaths of Despair epidemic and the postsocialist mortality crisis.
gaborscheiring
- Mar 29, 2022
- 9 min
Will the Post-War Rebirth of the West Revive Democracy?
A fundamental contradiction lies at the heart of Western foreign policy: economic liberalism undermines democracy promotion.
gaborscheiring
- Mar 14, 2022
- 1 min
Deindustrialization, social disintegration, and health
We present a neoclassical sociological synthesis of the lived experience of deindustrialization and its implications for health.
gaborscheiring
- Feb 28, 2022
- 1 min
George Blazyca Award
It is an honor that my book - The Retreat of Liberal Democracy, Palgrave, 2020 - won the BASEES 2022 George Blazyca Book Prize.
gaborscheiring
- Feb 20, 2022
- 1 min
The national-populist mutation of neoliberalism
We know much about the mutation of neoliberalism in advanced economies. I show how this might happen in investment-dependent economies.
gaborscheiring
- Dec 14, 2021
- 13 min
Armchair Economics Defeated: How China Escaped Shock Therapy
My review of Isabella Weber's book, How China Escaped Shock Therapy, on the SASE blog.
gaborscheiring
- Dec 3, 2021
- 1 min
Neoliberal Capitalism and the Visegrad Countermovements
Our special issue—Neoliberal Capitalism and the Visegrad Countermovements—is finally out & complete.
gaborscheiring
- Dec 1, 2021
- 1 min
The social requisites of illiberalism
The world is facing a new wave of autocratization. This chapter reviews the social foundations of illiberalism.
gaborscheiring
- Nov 8, 2021
- 1 min
Neoliberal Capitalism and Visegrád Countermovements: introduction
This special issue analyzes the lived experience of postsocialist economic change and its relation to populism.
gaborscheiring
- Oct 11, 2021
- 12 min
From Socialist to Capitalist Walls
Taking Stock of Shock results from a massive interdisciplinary endeavor, a timely and crucial contribution to the debate on postsocialism.
gaborscheiring
- Sep 22, 2021
- 1 min
Varieties of Dependency, Varieties of Populism
The rise of populism has cast doubt on the sustainability of the marriage of liberal democracy and neoliberal capitalism.
gaborscheiring
- Sep 9, 2021
- 1 min
The Populist Radical Right and Health in Hungary
How do populists govern health? How are they handling covid19? We answer these questions by analyzing Viktor Orban's Hungary.
gaborscheiring
- Aug 14, 2021
- 2 min
The political economy of national-neoliberalism
Analyzing transformations in Romania & Hungary this article shows that neoliberalism is not over, just changing, leading to...
gaborscheiring
- Aug 11, 2021
- 9 min
The Mutation of Neoliberalism
In this contribution to ISRF Bulletin 24, I inquire into the nature of the specific form of national-populist neoliberalism that has...
gaborscheiring
- Aug 5, 2021
- 2 min
Populism in Hungary and Poland
Situations of Dependency, Mechanisms of Dependency Governance, and the Rise of Populism in Hungary and Poland Dependency theory is back!...
gaborscheiring
- Jul 20, 2021
- 10 min
Is Neoliberalism Finally Dead?
Few concepts have been declared dead and buried more often than neoliberalism. However, it continues to survive. Neoliberal Resilience,...
gaborscheiring
- Jun 17, 2021
- 13 min
The Socio-Economics of Illiberalism
My (slightly provocative) essay for SASE on how (not) to research illiberalism: The culture/economy dichotomy is artificial & unproductive.
gaborscheiring
- Jun 3, 2021
- 8 min
Illiberal Finance: Think Globally, Act Locally
How does the collusion of international finance & domestic oligarchy lead to illiberalism?
gaborscheiring
- May 7, 2021
- 8 min
The political economy of the post-socialist mortality crisis
The number of excess deaths could have been ca. 7.3 million in Eastern Europe in 1991-99. What explains the postsocialist mortality crisis?
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