CEU Democracy Institute

📣 CALL FOR PAPERS

💡 The European edition of the 14th Interpretive Policy Analysis Conference will consist of seven small, intensive workshops, each bringing together up to 15 papers around a shared theme.

Learn more:
👉 https://tinyurl.com/37xjrp5s

✍️🧑‍⚖️ Our Rule of Law Clinic and the Rechters voor Rechters Foundation worked together to submit a Third Party Intervention to the European Court of Human Rights in a case concerning the covert surveillance of a civil society activist in Bulgaria.

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Rule of Law Clinic and Stichting ‘Rechters voor Rechters’ Submit Third-party Intervention in ECHR Case | CEU Democracy Institute The DI's Rule of Law Clinic and the Rechters voor Rechters ("Judges for Judges") foundation worked together to submit a Third Party Intervention to the European Court of Human Rights in the case of Nedelchev and Tsarigradska v. Bulgaria (Application no. 15889/23). The intervention was prepared by Ru...

✍️📄 An article in Public Opinion Quarterly, co-authored by our Research Affiliate Jennifer McCoy, looks at why citizens support negotiated solutions to internal conflicts.

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👉 https://cutt.ly/Ryph6ZWr

💬🗞️ In an article on the reasons for the resounding victory of Peter Magyar's Tisza party in the 2026 Hungarian elections, HuffPost quotes our researchers Zsolt Enyedi and Balint Magyar. 🇭🇺🇭🇺🗳️

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Zsolt Enyedi, Balint Magyar in Huffington Post Article on Orban's Defeat | CEU Democracy Institute CEU Budapest is prominently featured in a Huffington Post article, with comments from Zsolt Enyedi, CEU Professor and DI researcher, and Balint Magyar, DI researcher. The article reports on the reasons for the resounding victory of Peter Magyar's Tisza party in the 2026 Hungarian elections. Zsolt En...

💬🗞️ El País cited our Research Affiliates Edit Zgut-Przybylska and Peter Kreko in a piece on constitutional changes introduced by the new Hungarian government. 🇭🇺🇭🇺🗳️

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Edit Zgut-Przybylska, Peter Kreko Discuss Hungary's Constitutional Changes in El Pais | CEU Democracy Institute Spanish newspaper El Pais cited DI Research Affiliates Edit Zgut-Przybylska and Peter Kreko in a piece on some of the controversial changes introduced by the new Hungarian government. El Pais reports that Hungary has embarked on an "express" democratic transition after Viktor Orban's defeat at the l...

💡 How do leading scholars reflect on contemporary democracies and the prospects of a more democratic future?

📚 The new volume offers a selection of conversations that our Review of Democracy published in its first five years.

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👉 https://cutt.ly/hyph0aZl

✍️📄 In a paper in Regulation & Governance, our Research Affiliate Fernando Casal Bertoa and his co-authors explore party ethics self-regulation across 241 parliamentary parties in 34 countries.

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👉 https://shorturl.at/D7cbH

✍️📄 In an article in Twin Research and Human Genetics, our Research Affiliate Levente Littvay and his co-authors discuss the Hungarian Twin Registry, the largest population-based twin registry in Central and Eastern Europe.

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👉 https://shorturl.at/rdigK

✍️📄 In a special issue of Critical and Radical Social Work, Roland Ferkovics, Co-Manager of our Roma Civil Monitor project, and his co-authors discuss the potential of radical social work and inclusive community development in Hungary.

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👉 https://shorturl.at/uu1Xw

💡 If you are a Hungarian university student, don’t forget to apply to the interdisciplinary Kontextus Program.

🗓️ Deadline: Aug 23
The program is in Hungarian. 🇭🇺

Details:
👉 https://cutt.ly/BytlIqny