The article describes the study Protocol of the PrivMort Project, a multilevel cohort study measuring the health impact of economic change.

The paper analyses the tensions between dependent financialisation and democracy building on Polanyi's work utilising the case of Hungary.

Abstract With the contemporary crisis of liberal democracy and the rise of illiberalism in the aftermath of the global financial crisis we need a theoretical framework that links modernization, crises and the fate of democracy. In my paper I attempt to show that Polanyi’s thinking represents such a framework. I focus on Polanyi’s historically informed political economic analysis of the tensions between liberal finance and liberal democracy. In the first section I reconstruct

Progressive politics needs bold new visions that can be contrasted to current processes of erosion, such as the idea of the basic income.

This chapter summarizes the theory and evidence regarding Mass Privatization programmes in the post-communist environment.

This article provides a Weberian-class-based and international-political-economy-inspired account of de-democratization in Hungary.

This chapter summarizes the theory and evidence regarding Mass Privatization programmes in the post-communist environment. It first defines Mass Privatization and compares it to other ways of privatization used during the postcommunist transition. It then summarizes the economic and political arguments for and against this method of privatization. Finally, it discusses the research on the economic and public health consequences of Mass Privatization. Darja Irdam, Gábor Scheir

This chapter provides an analysis of the social impact of private sector participation in the water sector in Hungary.

I present a friendly critique of Burawoy's public sociology manifesto, building on my experience as a social activist and young researcher.

Abstract Burawoy’s manifesto connects to a long series of debates on the role of science in society as well as on the myth of pure science. This paper argues that the gap between professional sociology and public sociology is far from being unbridgeable and that public sociology is not suppressed to the extent portrayed by Burawoy. In late modern societies a number of schools, including various scientific, public and intellectual movements have questioned the possibility, val

A few years into the transition to a market-economy, Hungarians have discovered that private ownership does not necessarily mean well-being.