Gabor Scheiring, PhD

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.

New study traces how ill health translates into anti-immigrant sentiment.

I spoke with Al Jazeera English about the legacy of the end of World War II in Europe, the rise of nationalism and the far right.

Gabor Scheiring interviewed by Joy Reid about Trump, authoritarian populism and the striking parallels with Viktor Orban's Hungary.

I Watched Orbán Destroy Hungary’s Democracy. Here’s My Advice for the Trump Era.

In this article in The Conversation, I dive into our first-of-its-kind meta-analysis published in the British Journal of Political Science.

Happy to share my review of Ali Kadivar's excellent book on the social foundations of democracies, just out in the American Journal of...

“I watched Hungary’s democracy dissolve into authoritarianism as a member of parliament — and I see troubling parallels in Trumpism and...

I watched Hungary’s democracy dissolve into authoritarianism as a member of parliament − and I see troubling parallels in Trumpism

Thrilled to share our article just out in the British Journal of Political Science. The first meta-analysis of the evidence of a causal...

I contributed a chapter to the Routledge Handbook of Autocratization. ABSTRACT This chapter reviews the role of social class dynamics...

I'm enthusiastic about the next six months as a visiting scholar at Harvard University's Centre for European Studies. The research for...

It's great to see our chapter on the political economy of the postsocialist mortality crisis published early this year.

The essay, published in the journal of ATTAC France, explains why Polish populism is labor-oriented, Czech populism is pro-status quo,...

In this op-ed, I explore the latest Freedom House Nations in Transit Report, its implications for Hungary, and how the report only...

Why did 7M people die prematurely in Eastern Europe during the transition in the 90s? In our paper in the Cambridge Journal of Economics,...

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...

The American Journal of Sociology published a review of my book, The retreat of liberal democracy.

New Perspectives on Deindustrialization as Socio-Economic Disintegration - Our essay with Anne-Marie Jeannet for the SASE blog.

This article for the Marxist Sociology Blog presents a novel theory on deindustrialization, social disintegration, and health.

In our new Annual Review of Sociology article, we compare the American Deaths of Despair epidemic and the postsocialist mortality crisis.

A fundamental contradiction lies at the heart of Western foreign policy: economic liberalism undermines democracy promotion.

We present a neoclassical sociological synthesis of the lived experience of deindustrialization and its implications for health.

It is an honor that my book - The Retreat of Liberal Democracy, Palgrave, 2020 - won the BASEES 2022 George Blazyca Book Prize.