CEU Political Science Department

Last chance to register for the MethodsNET Summer School!

The countdown is officially on. In exactly 10 days, the Methods NET Summer School with CEU Political Science Department kicks off its pre-week online sessions, followed by our intensive in-person tracks in Vienna.

Whether you need to master advanced statistical approaches, deep-dive into case-based designs, or refine your qualitative fieldwork techniques, our world-class instructors are ready to help elevate your research.

Don't let your methodological training stall until next year. Access the full course list one last time and secure your participant slot before registration closes completely: https://methodsnet.org/course-list/

📚 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

🗳️ 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