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

Most analysts describe Orbanomics as anti-liberal anti-business policies only serving the interests of the political elite and loyal oligarchs. However, this is a misunderstanding. A wide segment of domestic and transnational elites benefit. Orban’s regime has a socio-economic logic that can only be understood in the context of economic globalisation. Orbanomics is a faulty and polarising answer to the crisis of Hungary’s post-1990 liberal dependent economic model. The long-t

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.

Theis article - co-authored by Kristóf Szombati - presents and empirically substantiates a theoretical account explaining the making and stabilisation of illiberal hegemony in Hungary. It combines a Polanyian institutionalist framework with a neo-Gramscian analysis of right-wing hegemonic strategy and a relational class analysis inspired by the political economy tradition in anthropology. The article identifies the social actors behind the illiberal transformation, showing ho

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

Abstract: An unprecedented mortality crisis befell the former socialist countries between 1989 and 1995, representing one of the most significant demographic shocks of the post-Second World War period. Academic research has identified economic transitions as a crucial factor behind the post-socialist mortality crisis. However, most previous studies relied on either country-level or individual-level data, which leaves the potential for modeling error, as they cannot assess bot

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?

Abstract An unprecedented mortality crisis befell the former socialist countries between 1989 and 1995, representing one of the greatest demographic shocks of the period after the Second World War. While it is likely that country-level variation in the post-socialist mortality crisis in Eastern Europe can be explained by a constellation of political and socio-economic factors, no comprehensive review of the existing scholarly attempts at explaining these factors exists. We re

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.

I talked with The Correction Podcast about the changes Hungary has undergone over the last eight years. We discuss how countries slide towards authoritarianism, the failures of the liberal elite, and what West Virginia has in common with rural Hungary.