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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.
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Gabor Scheiring, PhD
Political Economist, Public Sociologist
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gaborscheiring
- May 24
- 1 min
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...
gaborscheiring
- May 13
- 1 min
Social classes and autocratization
I contributed a chapter to the Routledge Handbook of Autocratization. ABSTRACT This chapter reviews the role of social class dynamics...
gaborscheiring
- Mar 13
- 1 min
My Interview with Democracy Now!
“I watched Hungary’s democracy dissolve into authoritarianism as a member of parliament — and I see troubling parallels in Trumpism and...
gaborscheiring
- Mar 13
- 4 min
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
gaborscheiring
- Feb 22
- 1 min
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...
gaborscheiring
- Jan 19
- 1 min
On Sabbatical as a Harvard Fellow
I'm enthusiastic about the next six months as a visiting scholar at Harvard University's Centre for European Studies. The research for...
gaborscheiring
- Jan 17
- 1 min
The Political Economy of the Postsocialist Mortality Crisis
It's great to see our chapter on the political economy of the postsocialist mortality crisis published early this year.
gaborscheiring
- Jun 17, 2023
- 1 min
My Analysis of Eastern European Populism in French
The essay, published in the journal of ATTAC France, explains why Polish populism is labor-oriented, Czech populism is pro-status quo,...
gaborscheiring
- Jun 16, 2023
- 8 min
From Democracy to Authoritarian Capitalism
In this op-ed, I explore the latest Freedom House Nations in Transit Report, its implications for Hungary, and how the report only...
gaborscheiring
- Mar 25, 2023
- 2 min
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,...
gaborscheiring
- Mar 15, 2023
- 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.
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