Invited lecture and panel discussion with Chriss Hann at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden

In our new Annual Review of Sociology article, we compare the American Deaths of Despair epidemic and the postsocialist mortality crisis.

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

We present a neoclassical sociological synthesis of the lived experience of deindustrialization and its implications for health.

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

We know much about the mutation of neoliberalism in advanced economies. I show how this might happen in investment-dependent economies.

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

Our special issue—Neoliberal Capitalism and the Visegrad Countermovements—is finally out & complete.

The world is facing a new wave of autocratization. This chapter reviews the social foundations of illiberalism.

This special issue analyzes the lived experience of postsocialist economic change and its relation to populism.

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

The rise of populism has cast doubt on the sustainability of the marriage of liberal democracy and neoliberal capitalism.

How do populists govern health? How are they handling covid19? We answer these questions by analyzing Viktor Orban's Hungary.

Analyzing transformations in Romania & Hungary this article shows that neoliberalism is not over, just changing, leading to national-neoliberalism. Abstract Has a post-neoliberal policy regime emerged from the challenges to neoliberalism that have accompanied the rise of nationalism and populism in some Eastern and Central European countries? Why has the political organization of these challenges to neoliberalism endured in some countries but not in others? By drawing on a mi

In this contribution to ISRF Bulletin 24, I inquire into the nature of the specific form of national-populist neoliberalism that has emerged in Hungary under Viktor Orbán's leadership. Populism and neoliberalism are among the most fiercely debated topics in the social sciences—however, the two concepts have produced two disjoined discourses. The conventional approach to populism followed by most economists and political scientists has characterized it as a threat to the neoli

Dependency theory is back! It's so great to see this book and my chapter on dependency just published. In 2019, dependency theory celebrated its 50th birthday: Cardoso & Faletto's classic, Dependency and Development, had been published in 1969 originally, and in 1979 in English - the same year as Peter Evans' book, Dependent development, had come out, who wrote a blazing endorsement of this new book. On this occasion, Aldo Madariaga and Stefano Palestini organized an internat

Few concepts have been declared dead and buried more often than neoliberalism. However, it continues to survive. Neoliberal Resilience, Aldo Madariaga’s award-winning book, shows how. Few concepts have been declared dead and buried more often than neoliberalism. However, it continues to survive. Neoliberal Resilience, Aldo Madariaga’s award-winning book, shows how. The strange non-death of neoliberalism Joe Biden’s presidency has begun with a historically unprecedented stimul

Presentation at the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE) Annual Meeting

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?

Book panel at the Thirty Years of Capitalist Transformations in Central and Eastern Europe Conference. Chair: Don Kalb (University of Bergen). Panelists: Attila Antal, Gabor Scheiring, Kristof Szombati, Mary Taylor

The number of excess deaths could have been ca. 7.3 million in Eastern Europe in 1991-99. What explains the postsocialist mortality crisis?

Abstract An unprecedented mortality crisis struck Eastern Europe during the transition from socialism to capitalism. Working-class men without a college degree suffered the most. Some argue that economic dislocation caused stress and despair, leading to adverse health behavior and ill health (dislocation-despair approach). Others suggest that hazardous drinking inherited as part of a dysfunctional working-class culture and populist alcohol policy were the key determinants (su

Presentation at the British Sociological Association's 70th Annual Conference (online)