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My book reviewed in AJS
The American Journal of Sociology published a review of my book, The retreat of liberal democracy.
Gabor Scheiring, PhD
Political Economist, Public Sociologist
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gaborscheiring
- Apr 12
- 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 14
- 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 20
- 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 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.
gaborscheiring
- Sep 22, 2021
- 1 min
Varieties of Dependency, Varieties of Populism
The rise of populism has cast doubt on the sustainability of the marriage of liberal democracy and neoliberal capitalism.
gaborscheiring
- Sep 9, 2021
- 1 min
The Populist Radical Right and Health in Hungary
How do populists govern health? How are they handling covid19? We answer these questions by analyzing Viktor Orban's Hungary.
gaborscheiring
- Aug 14, 2021
- 2 min
The political economy of national-neoliberalism
Analyzing transformations in Romania & Hungary this article shows that neoliberalism is not over, just changing, leading to...
gaborscheiring
- Aug 5, 2021
- 2 min
Populism in Hungary and Poland
Situations of Dependency, Mechanisms of Dependency Governance, and the Rise of Populism in Hungary and Poland Dependency theory is back!...
gaborscheiring
- Apr 15, 2021
- 2 min
Deindustrialization and the Postsocialist Mortality Crisis
Abstract An unprecedented mortality crisis struck Eastern Europe during the transition from socialism to capitalism. Working-class men...
gaborscheiring
- Dec 17, 2020
- 1 min
Left Behind in the Hungarian Rustbelt
The article conceptualises Hungary's neo-nationalist turn as a Polanyian countermovement against globalisation and deindustrialisation.
gaborscheiring
- Dec 11, 2020
- 1 min
Privatization and the postsocialist fertility decline
Abstract The ten countries with the fastest shrinking population are all located in Eastern Europe, with low fertility as one of the...
gaborscheiring
- Dec 1, 2020
- 1 min
Deindustrialization and deaths of despair
Deindustrialization and deaths of despair: mapping the impact of industrial decline on ill health A growing literature on deaths of...
gaborscheiring
- Aug 28, 2020
- 10 min
Book out: The Retreat of Liberal Democracy
Transcending disciplinary boundaries, the book provides a fresh answer to a simple & profound question: why has liberal democracy retreated?
gaborscheiring
- Aug 21, 2020
- 1 min
From neoliberal disembedding to authoritarian re-embedding
Relying on Polanyi & Gramsci, the article analyses the socio-economic roots of illiberal populism in Hungary.
gaborscheiring
- Jun 19, 2020
- 1 min
Orbanomics: A polarising answer to the crisis of liberal dependent capitalism
This analysis explains the political-economic logic of Orbanomics.
gaborscheiring
- Apr 18, 2020
- 1 min
The foundations of hybrid authoritarian state capitalism in Hungary
To understand the emergence, stability of Orbán's illiberal regime, this article digs into the contradictions of postsocialist liberalism.
gaborscheiring
- Jan 28, 2020
- 2 min
Analyzing the Health Impact of Economic Change
Non-technical summary of the Privatisation and Mortality project that analyzed the political economy of the postsocialist mortality crisis.
gaborscheiring
- Sep 5, 2019
- 2 min
Dependent development and authoritarian state capitalism
What are the economic roots Hungary's authoritarian turn, and how could we conceptualise the post-2010 regime?
gaborscheiring
- Dec 14, 2018
- 1 min
Cross-Country Evidence on the Social Determinants of the Post-Socialist Mortality Crisis in Europe
We review 39 cross-national multi-variable peer reviewed studies of social determinants of mortality in post-socialist Europe.
gaborscheiring
- Apr 9, 2018
- 1 min
Lessons from the Political Economy of Authoritarian Capitalism in Hungary
To understand the emergence of authoritarian capitalism in Hungary, this paper digs into the contradictions of liberal economic policies.
gaborscheiring
- Mar 26, 2018
- 1 min
Smoking, alcohol and cancer mortality in Eastern European men
The study calculates population attributable risk fraction (PARF) of cancer deaths from smoking and alcohol in Russia, Belarus and Hungary.