Gabor Scheiring, PhD

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.

We know much about the mutation of neoliberalism in advanced economies. I show how this might happen in investment-dependent economies.

My review of Isabella Weber's book, How China Escaped Shock Therapy, on the SASE blog.

Our special issue—Neoliberal Capitalism and the Visegrad Countermovements—is finally out & complete.

The world is facing a new wave of autocratization. This chapter reviews the social foundations of illiberalism.

This special issue analyzes the lived experience of postsocialist economic change and its relation to populism.

Taking Stock of Shock results from a massive interdisciplinary endeavor, a timely and crucial contribution to the debate on postsocialism.

The rise of populism has cast doubt on the sustainability of the marriage of liberal democracy and neoliberal capitalism.

How do populists govern health? How are they handling covid19? We answer these questions by analyzing Viktor Orban's Hungary.

Analyzing transformations in Romania & Hungary this article shows that neoliberalism is not over, just changing, leading to...

In this contribution to ISRF Bulletin 24, I inquire into the nature of the specific form of national-populist neoliberalism that has...

Situations of Dependency, Mechanisms of Dependency Governance, and the Rise of Populism in Hungary and Poland Dependency theory is back!...

Few concepts have been declared dead and buried more often than neoliberalism. However, it continues to survive. Neoliberal Resilience,...

My (slightly provocative) essay for SASE on how (not) to research illiberalism: The culture/economy dichotomy is artificial & unproductive.

How does the collusion of international finance & domestic oligarchy lead to illiberalism?

The number of excess deaths could have been ca. 7.3 million in Eastern Europe in 1991-99. What explains the postsocialist mortality crisis?

Abstract An unprecedented mortality crisis struck Eastern Europe during the transition from socialism to capitalism. Working-class men...

This essay examines the multidisciplinary debate around what has recently been referred to as an epidemic of ‘deaths of despair.’...

Globalist neoliberalism, with its focus on human rights and multilateralism, is on the decline. However, its alternative is not a...

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