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CEU Political Science faculty member Gabor Simonovits has published a new article in Nature Human Behaviour, co-authored...
02/06/2026

CEU Political Science faculty member Gabor Simonovits has published a new article in Nature Human Behaviour, co-authored with Bence Hamrak. The study finds that public support for drug regulation in the US is driven by status quo bias rather than assessments of harm — with significant implications for evidence-based policy reform. 🔗 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-026-02471-y

We are pleased to share two new publications by CEU Assistant Professor Björn Bremer.The first, published in Climate Pol...
29/05/2026

We are pleased to share two new publications by CEU Assistant Professor Björn Bremer.
The first, published in Climate Policy, examines whether framing wealth taxation around carbon inequality can build public support for green investment in Germany: https://doi.org/10.1080/14693062.2026.2661351
The second, in Comparative Political Studies, revisits public support for fiscal consolidation in Great Britain — finding that voters' appetite for austerity is considerably weaker than policymakers often assume: https://doi.org/10.1177/00104140261431821

In some EU countries, over 50% of young workers are employed on temporary contracts. New research by CEU Professor Anil ...
27/05/2026

In some EU countries, over 50% of young workers are employed on temporary contracts. New research by CEU Professor Anil Duman tracks what this means for workers' longer-term careers, drawing on two decades of longitudinal data across EU member states. Her findings show that temporary employment can serve as a route into stable work — but its effects vary significantly by age, gender, education, and national labour market context.

Full paper: https://www.eurofound.europa.eu/en/publications/all/examining-temporary-employment-in-eu-member-states-a-longitudinal-perspective

📚 Two new publications from CEU Political Science!Professor Anca Gheaus has published an entry on "Feminism" in the Oxfo...
12/05/2026

📚 Two new publications from CEU Political Science!

Professor Anca Gheaus has published an entry on "Feminism" in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics — proposing a bold, ecumenical definition of feminism as the project of abolishing unjustified gender norms, one that bridges the divide between trans-inclusive and gender-critical feminists.
🔗 https://academic.oup.com/edited-volume/62239/chapter-abstract/560377365

And in April, Professor Judit Sandor contributed the chapter "Secrets and Lies: Moral Confusion and Banning All Forms of Surrogacy in Hungary" to Surrogacy Today: A European Legal Overview (Trivent Publishing) — examining Hungary's surrogacy ban within broader European debates on human dignity and the right to found a family.
🔗 https://trivent-publishing.eu/home/226-429-surrogacy-today-a-european-legal-overview.html

This year, Central European University turns 35. 🎂These photos take us back to where it all began — a young university i...
07/05/2026

This year, Central European University turns 35. 🎂

These photos take us back to where it all began — a young university in Budapest, a department devoted to teaching and learning in a city full of energy and change. Seminars that never ended, books stacked to the ceiling, even a New York field trip or two.

A lot has happened since then. Careers built, books written, students taught. And through it all, this community stayed close.
Thirty-five years later, CEU is in Vienna — and this Friday, we are all getting back together.

To everyone joining us for the alumni reunion: we cannot wait to see you. ❤️

🗳️ The April 12, 2026 Hungarian parliamentary election, widely regarded as a watershed moment for European democracy, ha...
06/05/2026

🗳️ The April 12, 2026 Hungarian parliamentary election, widely regarded as a watershed moment for European democracy, has prompted extensive scholarly debate. We are proud that several members of our Department of Political Science have contributed their expertise to the public discourse, both before and after the vote.

Zsolt Enyedi has been among the most prominent voices in international media. He discussed the election's implications on the Democracy in Question? podcast, participated in a panel at The George Washington University / FPRI, published an explainer on The Conversation UK on Peter Magyar's rise, and contributed analytical pieces to the CIVICA and The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) EuroPP blogs examining what Tisza's victory means for the future of illiberalism in Europe.

Andras Bozoki co-authored a major analytical essay on Democracy Seminar, arguing that TISZA's electoral breakthrough represents an "electoral revolution", a paradigm case in which the very instruments designed to sustain an electoral autocratic regime were turned against it.

Daniel Bochsler offered his perspective in the Swiss public sphere, speaking to NAU.ch on how Magyar's victory may weaken Putin's regional influence, and appearing on RSI's (Swiss public broadcaster) programme Modem in a segment titled "Addio Orbán."

Matthijs Bogaards published a commentary for the Montesquieu Instituut asking a pointed question: Can Péter Magyar save Hungarian democracy? His answer is sobering - Hungary, he argues, is no longer a democracy in the classical sense, having become one of the "dictatorships with elections" that have proliferated since the post-Cold War democratization wave.

Anil Duman offered a critical perspective in the Turkish press (Birgün), cautioning that Magyar's claim to "regime change" remains quite limited, and that while Orbán's defeat demonstrates the fragility of such systems, it cannot yet be read as a definitive global retreat of the populist wave.

Together, these contributions reflect our department's commitment to rigorous, engaged scholarship on democracy, autocracy, and electoral politics, in Hungary and beyond.

Read more: https://lnkd.in/dYphgukz

📌 New publication from CEU Political Science!Professor Anil Duman has written a new piece for CIVICA’s Experts in the Sp...
04/05/2026

📌 New publication from CEU Political Science!

Professor Anil Duman has written a new piece for CIVICA’s Experts in the Spotlight series, examining how the 2026 energy crisis is reshaping Europe’s green transition — and what it means for the future of climate policy across the continent.

The article is part of her work on the CIVICA-funded project Brown to Green: The Political Economy of Risks, Voting, and Compensation Policies.

Read it on the CIVICA website → https://www.civica.eu/news-events/news-blog/detail/geopolitics-and-europes-green-transition-how-the-2026-energy-crisis-is-shaping-climate-policy-energy-security-and-political-stability

The Department of Political Science is pleased to announce that Professor Anca Gheaus has been awarded the Chaire Mercie...
24/04/2026

The Department of Political Science is pleased to announce that Professor Anca Gheaus has been awarded the Chaire Mercier 2026 at UCLouvain — an annual lectureship for internationally renowned philosophers.
Her series, Feminism: An Ecumenical Proposal, began on 16 March and examines the demands of gender justice, including questions of care policy, men as potential victims of gender injustice, and the role of the state.
Congratulations!

Last Wednesday, the CEU Political Science Department hosted a two-part event on populism, democracy, and the future of u...
17/04/2026

Last Wednesday, the CEU Political Science Department hosted a two-part event on populism, democracy, and the future of universities under political pressure.

Ian Shapiro (Yale) opened with a lecture tracing the roots of the populist surge: decades of wage stagnation since the 1970s, the collapse of communism as an alternative to capitalism, and a series of failures by mainstream party leaders — above all after the 2008 financial crisis. He draws on these ideas in his forthcoming book After the Fall (Basic Books, May 2026).

The roundtable that followed looked at how universities in the US and Europe are responding to political and financial pressure — from funding cuts to the politicisation of international admissions. One conclusion stood out: Europe has a real opportunity. Universities that commit to living by their values — independent thought, genuine tolerance, knowledge for its own sake — can become a global anchor for academic freedom.

With Ian Shapiro, Michael Ignatieff, Denise Roche (Scholars at Risk Europe), and moderator Eva Fodor.

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