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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...
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Gabor Scheiring, PhD
Political Economist, Public Sociologist
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May 131 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...
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Feb 221 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...
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Jan 171 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
Mar 25, 20232 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,...
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Mar 15, 20231 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...
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Jun 17, 20221 min
My book reviewed in AJS
The American Journal of Sociology published a review of my book, The retreat of liberal democracy.
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Apr 12, 20221 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.
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Mar 14, 20221 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, 20221 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, 20211 min
Neoliberal Capitalism and the Visegrad Countermovements
Our special issue—Neoliberal Capitalism and the Visegrad Countermovements—is finally out & complete.
gaborscheiring
Dec 1, 20211 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, 20211 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, 20211 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, 20211 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, 20212 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, 20212 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, 20212 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, 20201 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, 20201 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, 20201 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, 202010 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, 20201 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, 20201 min
Orbanomics: A polarising answer to the crisis of liberal dependent capitalism
This analysis explains the political-economic logic of Orbanomics.
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