** Postponed ** Our online seminar with Alvaro Comin on Democracy, Social Welfare and the Never-Ending Threat of Autocracy in Brazil, scheduled for tomorrow, has been postponed. events.ceu.edu/2026-05-13/p...

Join our Program Director Laszlo Bruszt for this lecture upon being awarded the Dr. Elemér Hantos Prize.

How do illiberal regimes hollow out collaborative governance without abolishing it? Join Conny Roggeband and Andrea Krizsán for an online lecture on civil society exclusion and policy capture. 🗓 Wed, May 6 | ⏰ 15:00 CEST events.ceu.edu/2026-05-06/r...

Are you a Roma student from the EU interested in continuing your studies at CEU? Applications are open for the CEU Roma Graduate Preparation Program and for the new Undergraduate Preparation Program for Roma. Full scholarships available. More info: romanistudies.ceu.edu

What happens to social citizenship under ethno‑nationalist pronatalism? Join Eva Fodor (CEU) for an online seminar on carefare, gender, and illiberal politics. 🗓 April 29 | ⏰ 15:00 CEST More info: events.ceu.edu/2026-04-29/c...

Climate politics after 1.5°C: what now?🔥🌍 Andreas Malm on The Long Heat, with @stefanoponte.bsky.social, Isabel Froes & Lindsay Whitfield. What climate politics remains when delay is no longer an option? 📅 Apr 30 | 13:00–15:00 | Copenhagen Business School + online 👉 events.ceu.edu/2026-04-30/c...

Why do some democracies extend social benefits to the poor while others don’t? Join Candelaria Garay (@candelariagaray.bsky.social) & @emisimison.bsky.social for new evidence from 18 Latin American countries. 📅 April 22, 15:00 CEST, Zoom events.ceu.edu/2026-04-22/d...

Starting soon at 17:00 on YouTube Join Dorottya Szikra the lead of our Welfare and Democracy Observatory; Balazs Majtenyi, Andrew Arato and Andrew Ryder for a discussion of the Hungarian election results. www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHsU...

How Do We Square Democratic Rights with Green Industrial Policies? 🌱⚖️ Today at 14:00 (Zoom). A panel on critical raw materials, mining, geopolitics, and the green transition—with Jojo Nem Singh, Henry Sanderson, Karin Buhmann and Lindsay Whitfield. democracyinstitute.ceu.edu/articles/wha...

* Tomorrow at 15:00 CEST, Zoom * What does the rise of the populist state welfare regime tell us about the politics of redistribution, democratic backsliding, and authoritarian resilience in the 21st century? Join Erdem Yoruk (Koc Univ.) to find out. democracyinstitute.ceu.edu/articles/gf-...

Can welfare strengthen democracy - or entrench authoritarianism? Join us for an online discussion w/ Erdem Yörük on how social assistance in the Global South has become a powerful tool of populist, authoritarian rule. 📆 April 15 ⏰15:00 CEST Registration: globalforum.ceu.edu/seminar-series

Today at 17:00 CEST Follow it live on YouTube: www.youtube.com/live/yL_4f-l...

CfP is out for our workshop in November. Deadline for submissions is May 15. Hope to see many of you in Brussels! “Coloniality of the modern state” repi.phisoc.ulb.be/fr/cfp-colon...

✍️ Hungary is awaiting a decisive election, which may cement autocratization or open a path for democratic recovery. In his article, Balint Mikola summarizes the most important expectations, potential outcome scenarios, and their respective implications. 🇭🇺🗳️ 🧑‍💻 Read it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/3uetsb5f

Final countdown! 1 week left for MethodsNET Summer School with @weareceu.bsky.social . Last chance to join tracks in: 🧪 Causal Inference 💻 LLMs & Webscraping 📊 Network Analysis & R 📝 Qualitative/CHA Register now: methodsnet.org/course-list/ #ResearchMethods #MethodsNET

**Today at 15:00 CEST, on Zoom** Do democracies really “fail to deliver” - or is that a myth? Angelo Vito Panaro on regimes & social performance in the age of #autocratization. More info, registration: globalforum.ceu.edu/seminar-seri...

🌱Does the #GreenTransition open pathways out of the periphery? Online debate with @iliasalami.bsky.social, Aldo Madariaga, Elvis Alvenyo & Stine Haakonsson, moderated by @lindsaywhitfield.bsky.social 📅 Tomorrow, Apr 8, 2 pm CET globalforum.ceu.edu/hybrid-debat...

I started working on a new paper on Govtech in Ukraine and as I am searching for literature on Govtech I found this interesting paper by the IMF! The Political Economy of Govtech "The main innovation of GovTech is more social than technological" Interesting IMF! www.imf.org/-/media/file...

Democracy vs. autocracy - which delivers better social outcomes? Join the discussion in our seminar series, w/ Angelo Vito Panaro on April 8, 3 PM CET for new global evidence challenging conventional wisdom. More info, registration: globalforum.ceu.edu/seminar-seri... @ceudeminst.bsky.social

Do you want to know how ruling parties subvert inclusion to entrench dominance? Anirvan Chowdhury will discuss this in the Indian context today at 3pm CET in our online seminar series. @ceudeminst.bsky.social Join us -> globalforum.ceu.edu/seminar-seri...

Join us today az 15:30 CET on Zoom.

Why is studying Ukraine’s EU integration so hard? 🇺🇦🇪🇺 Find out at the opening lecture of our new IUFU course with László Bruszt (CEU) & Ivan Nagornyak (CEU DI) as they unpack the hidden analytical challenges. 🗓 March 30, 15:30 CET More info, registration: events.ceu.edu/2026-03-30/c...

In time for the weekend: 🎙️ Episode 2 is out! Hosts Inna Melnykovska and Marta Beska dive into Ukraine’s defence‑tech ecosystem & what it means for EU enlargement with @mattian.bsky.social and Ihor Masiakin. Listen here: open.spotify.com/episode/0ZpL...

🚨 CFP: Democratic Expeditions Workshop 2026 What are the risks and opportunities of #AI for democratic politics? 📍 Vienna | 🗓️ Nov 19–20 Submit by 31 March Convened by @zsofiabocskay.bsky.social and Simge Andi More info: democracyinstitute.ceu.edu/articles/cfp...

🎙️ In our new podcast, produced in cooperation with @jodemocracy.bsky.social, Luciano Da Ros and @manoelgehrke.bsky.social examine how courts can confront authoritarian behavior by elected leaders and why judicial action sometimes succeeds. 🧑‍⚖️🧑‍⚖️ 🎧 Listen to it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/48k3vrkm

Are we accurately interpreting election results? In our new paper, forthcoming in @ejprjournal.bsky.social, Tim Vlandas and I discuss the risks associated with drawing inferences about national level outcomes based on individual-level analyses- i.e. the 'atomistic fallacy'.

📚 Here comes the list of five book recommendations by our editor @konstantinkipp.bsky.social from 2025 and 2026, related to the rule of law. 🧑‍⚖️🧑‍⚖️ Read the list here: 👉 tinyurl.com/4sfkjnru

Today at 9pm CET! Join us for a discussion of the ties between democracy, authoritarianism and welfare, w/ Linda Cook, Dorit Geva, Luciana Souza de Leao, @josephwongut.bsky.social, Erdem Yoruk and @dnsltr.bsky.social, by @umich.edu's Center for Emerging Democracies. events.umich.edu/event/144144

Our Researcher David Karas spoke to Reuters about how batteries became a liability for Orban ⬇️ www.reuters.com/business/hun...

✍️ Donald Trump’s second term exposes how the structural logic of populism breaks down under its own expansion. What once relied on a clear moral divide now operates through thinning legitimacy and the staging of permanent confrontation, Ece Özbey argues. 🧑‍💻 Read it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/4nw23536

@davidkaras.bsky.social spoke to @szde.bsky.social about the economy in 🇭🇺 ⬇️ www.sueddeutsche.de/wirtschaft/u...

Monday, 5pm CET: Deep dive into gov't propaganda, independent journalism & social media in Hungary before the elections. With Peter Kreko, Veronika Kovesdi, Balint Mikola and @boralexander.bsky.social. At @ceudeminst.bsky.social + YouTube. More info: events.ceu.edu/2026-03-02/c...

New article! Differences within global movements: insights from FFF climate protests in Western and Eastern Europe by Aron Buzogány, Dániel Mikecz & Piotr Kocyba. @buzogany.bsky.social @piotrkocyba.bsky.social doi.org/10.1080/09644016.2026.2623726

What does a year of German rearmament get you? If you're China, almost decade of cash to change the world's electricity infrastructure. geoeconomic.substack.com/p/the-china-...

📢 JOB ALERT! Fully funded 3-year PhD in Climate & Comparative Politics at @sciencespo-cee.bsky.social. Starting in September. The project is on the political consequences of climate policies in carbon-intensive communities across Europe. 🗓 Deadline: May 17 www.sciencespo.fr/centre-etude...

Mark your calendar for the second event in our series! 🇭🇺🇭🇺 🗣️ Peter Kreko 🗣️ Veronika Kovesdi 🗣️ Balint Mikola 🗣️ @boralexander.bsky.social 🗓️ Mar 2, 5pm CET 📍 Budapest / YouTube Details: 👉 cutt.ly/1tnq3bkY Registration: 👉 shorturl.at/2rN2p

🎙️ In our new interview, Martti Koskenniemi challenges claims about the “death” of international law and suggests alternative readings of the current situation. 🧑‍⚖️🧑‍⚖️ 🧑‍💻 Read it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/y6anuk3j

Last Call for Applications – CEU Summer University with Financial Aid! The CEU Summer University course application deadline for those who request financial aid or need a visa is March 1. Course list, eligibility criteria and application forms for 2026: summeruniversity.ceu.edu/courses

The first seminar in our online series "Democracy, Autocracy, and the Welfare State in the 21st Century: A Global Approach" is on! @philiprathgeb.bsky.social is talking about how the radical right has changed welfare. Scholars, PhD, MA students, join us for the series: tinyurl.com/4ydd8d92

Four years into Russia’s war against Ukraine, we launch a new podcast, "EU Integration Dialogues: The Ukraine Edition", with Inna Melnykovska and Marta Beska. Episode 1 features @erik-jones.bsky.social and @vanghel.bsky.social on this year’s Munich Security Conference. tinyurl.com/4v4bvjrb

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“If Europe wants to make credible commitments to Ukraine, it must lower the political costs of saying yes,” our program director Laszlo Bruszt writes in a new piece for @projectsyndicate.bsky.social. www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/e...

The first event in the @ceudeminst.bsky.social series on the Hungarian elections featured Laszlo Bruszt, Global Forum's Director and Gergo Medve-Balint, a researcher in GF, alongside Eva Palocz and Jozsef Peter Martin. Watch: How to dismantle and oligarchic system? www.youtube.com/live/bD1wUjz...

✍️ In his op-ed, @nicholasrl.bsky.social analyzes the roots of the Labour Party’s current malaise and explores prospects for change to prevent a further ascent of the far right. 🇬🇧🇬🇧 🧑‍💻 Read it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/yhuu2hpf

Curious how autocratization reshaped welfare, how social policy boosts illiberal rulers? Our free online seminar series for PhD and MA students starts Feb 26. More info, registration: democracyinstitute.ceu.edu/articles/gf-...

💡 New event video 🎙️Batuhan Eren (Scuola Normale Superiore), @caterinafr.bsky.social @sciencespo-cee.bsky.social, Sylvia Kritzinger (Uni Vienna) & @veghzsuzsanna.bsky.social @gmfus.bsky.social explores how illiberal actors shape politics in Austria, Italy & France 👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-42...

More women now are graduating from university than men, and ever more women are taking up leadership roles in many spaces. As the role of women in society, we’ve seen attempts to push women back into “traditional” roles, as I said in at a @munsecconf.bsky.social event.

Join us on Monday for the first event of a new discussion series on the 🇭🇺 elections, organized by @ceudeminst.bsky.social, featuring Laszlo Bruszt, Jozsef Peter Martin, Gergo Medve-Balint, Eva Palocz and Balint Mikola. Topic: how to dismantle an oligarchic system. events.ceu.edu/2026-02-16/c...

Volume 74, Issue 1 of @polstudies.bsky.social is now available. Here is the Editor's Introduction, outlining our editorial goals and reflecting on the year's successes and challenges. Read the full issue here: buff.ly/rUI1FTL @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social @syysr.bsky.social @dafnoukos.bsky.social

One way to renew American democracy. My article for @us.theconversation.com building on the recent task force report of the Academy of Arts and Sciences on the benefits of shifting from winner-take-all elections to proportional representation (PR). theconversation.com/proportional...