Gabor Scheiring, PhD

This article for the Marxist Sociology Blog presents a novel theory on deindustrialization, social disintegration, and health.

A fundamental contradiction lies at the heart of Western foreign policy: economic liberalism undermines democracy promotion.

It is an honor that my book - The Retreat of Liberal Democracy, Palgrave, 2020 - won the BASEES 2022 George Blazyca Book Prize.

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

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

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

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?

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...

Behind the veneer of economic nationalism, Hungary is one of the breeding grounds of a new incarnation of neoliberalism.

Three pitfalls from a Hungarian perspective that could hinder beating Trumpism after Trump vacates the White House. The official start of...

Orbán is right to worry about EU funds becoming conditional on the rule of law. It threatens his whole socio-economic model The EU and...

It's an absolute honor that the Mayor of Budapest, Karácsony Gergely joined my book forum to discuss the state of democracy in Hungary....

Fighting populism requires recognising: globalisation contributed to enabling & stabilising illiberal populist regimes such as Orbán’s.

How can we interpret the characteristic steps of the Hungarian government to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic?

Death rates were strong predictors of the Trump Brexit votes. Rising working-class mortality signals both economic and democratic failure.

The government’s responses to Covid-19 correspond to the logic of Orbanomics: capitalism for the poor, socialism for the rich.

The health of people and the health of democracy are intertwined.

What do Italy and Hungary reveal about the political-economic background of the coronavirus crisis? My article in the Italian weekly Left.

The false Western sense of superiority endangers people.

The local government elections brought advances for the opposition but also new challenges for the left.