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.

I was happy to discuss the role of economic shocks, symbolic class war, the unraveling of liberalism, and physical & mental suffering as drivers of #populism in the US and Hungary with Al Scott on his podcast, The Rational View.

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

I had the honor of joining MSNBC's The ReidOut with Joy Reid for an in-depth, 15-minute conversation about Trump, authoritarian populism, and the striking parallels with Orbán's Hungary.

"Gábor Scheiring, a former member of the Hungarian parliament, wrote in a new essay for Politico Magazine that Orbán “consolidated media control through centralized propaganda, market pressure and loyal billionaires.” In the US, he wrote, “liberal-minded billionaires should not sit idly by as they did in Hungary, watching the right take over the media.”

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

"Hungarian foundations are supporting the development of far-right ideologies in the US and Europe. American Republicans have learned a great deal from Viktor Orbán, replicating many of his political strategies."

"In the United States, there is real suffering among working-class people. Real wages are stagnating, death rates are increasing. In Germany, real wages of workers without a college degree have been stagnating for several decades,"

I spoke with TVP WORLD, an international news network operated by Polish Television, discussing the social and economic foundations of Viktor Orbán's politics.

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

“Orban and Vucic are both the kind of illiberal leaders who are positioning their countries between the rivaling geo-political blocs, hoping to avoid too strong dependence on any one of them,”

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

I talked with Reimagining Post-Socialist Georgia Podcast about how th post-socialist mortality crisis emerged, its political implications for today, and what types of methodologies are most effective for researching these topics and more in post-socialist countries.

“I watched Hungary’s democracy dissolve into authoritarianism as a member of parliament — and I see troubling parallels in Trumpism and its appeal to workers." It’s official: Following Tuesday’s primaries, President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump appear set for a rematch in November after both candidates secured enough delegates to win their parties’ nominations. This past weekend, Republican front-runner Donald Trump hosted Hungary’s authoritarian Prime Minister

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 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

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

I'm enthusiastic about the next six months as a visiting scholar at Harvard University's Centre for European Studies. The research for this project began with my Ph.D. in Cambridge, UK. I can hardly think of a better way to write up the research for a new book than a fellowship in Cambridge, MA. If all goes well, I'll get on with the writing, get feedback from fellow fellows, resident profs, and students, and make new friends. If you're in the area, let me know!

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, and why Hungarian populism serves the ruling economic elites. La montée simultanée du populisme et le déclin de la démocratie libérale en Europe centrale et orientale contrastent de manière frappante avec l’optimisme qui prévalait au cours des décennies précédentes quant à l’avenir de la région. Dans cet essai, j’approfondis mes analyses précé

In this op-ed, I explore the latest Freedom House Nations in Transit Report, its implications for Hungary, and how the report only reveals the tip of the iceberg of the democratic backsliding in Hungary. According to the latest Freedom House Nations in Transit Report, the quality of the remaining democratic institutions in Hungary is poorer than in Albania, Serbia, or Northern Macedonia. Hungary has not been a democracy since 2020, according to Freedom House. However, the r

Why did 7M people die prematurely in Eastern Europe during the transition in the 90s? In our paper in the Cambridge Journal of Economics, we present new evidence for the role of deindustrialization. First of all, the increase in mortality was centered on middle-aged men between 30 and 59. The elderly, not the young, or infants who are sensitive to that quality of care did not experience a significant increase. Thus, healthcare system changes cannot explain the excess deaths.