Gabor Scheiring, PhD

Political Economist, Public Sociologist

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    Deindustrialization, social disintegration, and health
    gaborscheiring
    • Apr 22
    • 5 min
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    Deindustrialization, social disintegration, and health

    This article for the Marxist Sociology Blog presents a novel theory on deindustrialization, social disintegration, and health.
    Deaths of Despair in Comparative Perspective
    gaborscheiring
    • Apr 12
    • 1 min
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    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.
    Will the Post-War Rebirth of the West Revive Democracy?
    gaborscheiring
    • Mar 29
    • 9 min
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    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.
    Deindustrialization, social disintegration, and health
    gaborscheiring
    • Mar 14
    • 1 min
    academic

    Deindustrialization, social disintegration, and health

    We present a neoclassical sociological synthesis of the lived experience of deindustrialization and its implications for health.
    George Blazyca Award
    gaborscheiring
    • Feb 28
    • 1 min
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    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.
    The national-populist mutation of neoliberalism
    gaborscheiring
    • Feb 20
    • 1 min
    academic

    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.
    Armchair Economics Defeated: How China Escaped Shock Therapy
    gaborscheiring
    • Dec 14, 2021
    • 13 min
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    Armchair Economics Defeated: How China Escaped Shock Therapy

    My review of Isabella Weber's book, How China Escaped Shock Therapy, on the SASE blog.
    Neoliberal Capitalism and the Visegrad Countermovements
    gaborscheiring
    • Dec 3, 2021
    • 1 min
    academic

    Neoliberal Capitalism and the Visegrad Countermovements

    Our special issue—Neoliberal Capitalism and the Visegrad Countermovements—is finally out & complete.
    The social requisites of illiberalism
    gaborscheiring
    • Nov 30, 2021
    • 1 min
    academic

    The social requisites of illiberalism

    The world is facing a new wave of autocratization. This chapter reviews the social foundations of illiberalism.
    Neoliberal Capitalism and Visegrád Countermovements: introduction
    gaborscheiring
    • Nov 8, 2021
    • 1 min
    academic

    Neoliberal Capitalism and Visegrád Countermovements: introduction

    This special issue analyzes the lived experience of postsocialist economic change and its relation to populism.
    From Socialist to Capitalist Walls
    gaborscheiring
    • Oct 11, 2021
    • 12 min
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    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.
    Varieties of Dependency, Varieties of Populism
    gaborscheiring
    • Sep 22, 2021
    • 1 min
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    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.
    The Populist Radical Right and Health in Hungary
    gaborscheiring
    • Sep 9, 2021
    • 1 min
    academic

    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.
    The political economy of national-neoliberalism
    gaborscheiring
    • Aug 14, 2021
    • 2 min
    academic

    The political economy of national-neoliberalism

    Analyzing transformations in Romania & Hungary this article shows that neoliberalism is not over, just changing, leading to...
    The Mutation of Neoliberalism
    gaborscheiring
    • Aug 11, 2021
    • 9 min
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    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...
    Populism in Hungary and Poland
    gaborscheiring
    • Aug 5, 2021
    • 2 min
    academic

    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!...
    Is Neoliberalism Finally Dead?
    gaborscheiring
    • Jul 20, 2021
    • 10 min
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    Is Neoliberalism Finally Dead?

    Few concepts have been declared dead and buried more often than neoliberalism. However, it continues to survive. Neoliberal Resilience,...
    The Socio-Economics of Illiberalism
    gaborscheiring
    • Jun 17, 2021
    • 13 min
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    The Socio-Economics of Illiberalism

    My (slightly provocative) essay for SASE on how (not) to research illiberalism: The culture/economy dichotomy is artificial & unproductive.
    Illiberal Finance: Think Globally, Act Locally
    gaborscheiring
    • Jun 3, 2021
    • 8 min
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    Illiberal Finance: Think Globally, Act Locally

    How does the collusion of international finance & domestic oligarchy lead to illiberalism?
    The political economy of the post-socialist mortality crisis
    gaborscheiring
    • May 7, 2021
    • 8 min
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    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?
    Deindustrialization and the Postsocialist Mortality Crisis
    gaborscheiring
    • Apr 15, 2021
    • 2 min
    academic

    Deindustrialization and the Postsocialist Mortality Crisis

    Abstract An unprecedented mortality crisis struck Eastern Europe during the transition from socialism to capitalism. Working-class men...
    The Socio-Economics of Health and Dying
    gaborscheiring
    • Mar 26, 2021
    • 9 min
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    The Socio-Economics of Health and Dying

    This essay examines the multidisciplinary debate around what has recently been referred to as an epidemic of ‘deaths of despair.’...
    The National Populist Mutation Of Neoliberalism
    gaborscheiring
    • Feb 23, 2021
    • 8 min
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    The National Populist Mutation Of Neoliberalism

    Globalist neoliberalism, with its focus on human rights and multilateralism, is on the decline. However, its alternative is not a...
    Left Behind in the Hungarian Rustbelt
    gaborscheiring
    • Dec 17, 2020
    • 1 min
    academic

    Left Behind in the Hungarian Rustbelt

    The article conceptualises Hungary's neo-nationalist turn as a Polanyian countermovement against globalisation and deindustrialisation.
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