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Mayor of Budapest Gergely Karacsony joined the discussion about my recent book (The retreat of liberal democracy, Palgrave, 2020), organized by the Foreign Press Association, Milan

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

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.

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.

Larry Liu - Ph.D. researcher at Princeton Sociology - invited me to join him for an open-ended conversation about my research and my political involvement.

A presentation on my book and the political economy of the Orbán regime, as part of the online seminar series organized by the Párbeszéd Fenntarthatósági Műhely

Varieties of dependency, varieties of illiberalism: the crisis of democracy in East-Central Europe. Presentation at the Critical Political Economy Research Network (CPERN) Mid-Term Workshop, "What’s Next? Critical Political Economy at the End of Neoliberalism?", Limerick, Ireland (online workshop).

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

This analysis explains the political-economic logic of Orbanomics.

Gabor Scheiring has been an activist, a member of the Hungarian Parliament, and the shadow minister of finance before completing his Ph.D. at Cambridge. Now a postdoc researcher at Bocconi, he has obtained a Marie Curie fellowship to study the relationship between economic change, public health, and populism.

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.

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

The current global pandemic could easily lead to a societal collapse similar to the 2008 global economic crisis. In today’s program, we spoke with economist Gábor Scheiring about what the economic and political elite should do to prevent such a catastrophe.

The false Western sense of superiority endangers people.

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

Scheiring Gábor „Egy demokrácia halála” címmel könyvet írt az Orbán-rendszerről. A kötet új definíciót ad a rezsimről, miközben annak társadalmi hátterét is újrarajzolja.

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

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

What are the deeper challenges facing contemporary left-wing class politics in Hungary?

Authoritarian leaders find it hard to tolerate independent voices, and academic freedom is no different. After Prime Minister of Hungary Viktor Orbán announced the year of the ‘culture war’, the government effectively banished Central European University from Budapest. The prestigious research institutes of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences are next in line. The pretext is the need for boosting innovation. However, the truth is that governmental policies under Hungary’s autho

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