Gabor Scheiring, PhD

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

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

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

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.

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...

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

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

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

Abstract The ten countries with the fastest shrinking population are all located in Eastern Europe, with low fertility as one of the...

Deindustrialization and deaths of despair: mapping the impact of industrial decline on ill health A growing literature on deaths of...

Transcending disciplinary boundaries, the book provides a fresh answer to a simple & profound question: why has liberal democracy retreated?

Relying on Polanyi & Gramsci, the article analyses the socio-economic roots of illiberal populism in Hungary.

This analysis explains the political-economic logic of Orbanomics.

To understand the emergence, stability of Orbán's illiberal regime, this article digs into the contradictions of postsocialist liberalism.

Non-technical summary of the Privatisation and Mortality project that analyzed the political economy of the postsocialist mortality crisis.

What are the economic roots Hungary's authoritarian turn, and how could we conceptualise the post-2010 regime?

We review 39 cross-national multi-variable peer reviewed studies of social determinants of mortality in post-socialist Europe.

To understand the emergence of authoritarian capitalism in Hungary, this paper digs into the contradictions of liberal economic policies.

The study calculates population attributable risk fraction (PARF) of cancer deaths from smoking and alcohol in Russia, Belarus and Hungary.

Prolonged state ownership was associated with protection of life chances during the post-socialist transformation for women.