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Gabor Scheiring, PhD
Political Economist, Public Sociologist
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MSNBC Interview
Gabor Scheiring interviewed by Joy Reid about Trump, authoritarian populism and the striking parallels with Viktor Orban's Hungary.
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Dec 1, 20241 min read

My article in Politico
I Watched Orbán Destroy Hungary’s Democracy. Here’s My Advice for the Trump Era.
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Nov 23, 20249 min read

Economic insecurity causes populism
In this article in The Conversation, I dive into our first-of-its-kind meta-analysis published in the British Journal of Political Science.
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Jul 2, 20245 min read

Popular Politics and the Path to Durable Democracy
Happy to share my review of Ali Kadivar's excellent book on the social foundations of democracies, just out in the American Journal of...
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May 24, 20241 min read

Social classes and autocratization
I contributed a chapter to the Routledge Handbook of Autocratization. ABSTRACT This chapter reviews the role of social class dynamics...
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May 13, 20241 min read

My Interview with Democracy Now!
“I watched Hungary’s democracy dissolve into authoritarianism as a member of parliament — and I see troubling parallels in Trumpism and...
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Mar 13, 20241 min read

My article on The Conversation
I watched Hungary’s democracy dissolve into authoritarianism as a member of parliament − and I see troubling parallels in Trumpism
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Mar 13, 20244 min read

It's the Economy, Stupid
Thrilled to share our article just out in the British Journal of Political Science. The first meta-analysis of the evidence of a causal...
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Feb 22, 20241 min read

On Sabbatical as a Harvard Fellow
I'm enthusiastic about the next six months as a visiting scholar at Harvard University's Centre for European Studies. The research for...
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Jan 19, 20241 min read

The Political Economy of the Postsocialist Mortality Crisis
It's great to see our chapter on the political economy of the postsocialist mortality crisis published early this year.
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Jan 17, 20241 min read

My Analysis of Eastern European Populism in French
The essay, published in the journal of ATTAC France, explains why Polish populism is labor-oriented, Czech populism is pro-status quo,...
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Jun 17, 20231 min read

From Democracy to Authoritarian Capitalism
In this op-ed, I explore the latest Freedom House Nations in Transit Report, its implications for Hungary, and how the report only...
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Jun 16, 20238 min read

Deindustrialization and the postsocialist mortality crisis
Why did 7M people die prematurely in Eastern Europe during the transition in the 90s? In our paper in the Cambridge Journal of Economics,...
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Mar 25, 20232 min read

The politics of growth models and populism
In my new essay, The Politics of Growth Models and Populism in East-Central Europe, I embed my research on populism in the growth model...
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Mar 15, 20231 min read

My book reviewed in AJS
The American Journal of Sociology published a review of my book, The retreat of liberal democracy.
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Jun 17, 20221 min read

New Perspectives on Deindustrialization
New Perspectives on Deindustrialization as Socio-Economic Disintegration - Our essay with Anne-Marie Jeannet for the SASE blog.
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Jun 16, 202212 min read

Deindustrialization, social disintegration, and health
This article for the Marxist Sociology Blog presents a novel theory on deindustrialization, social disintegration, and health.
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Apr 22, 20225 min read

Deaths of Despair in Comparative Perspective
In our new Annual Review of Sociology article, we compare the American Deaths of Despair epidemic and the postsocialist mortality crisis.
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Apr 12, 20221 min read

Will the Post-War Rebirth of the West Revive Democracy?
A fundamental contradiction lies at the heart of Western foreign policy: economic liberalism undermines democracy promotion.
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Mar 29, 20229 min read

Deindustrialization, social disintegration, and health
We present a neoclassical sociological synthesis of the lived experience of deindustrialization and its implications for health.
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Mar 14, 20221 min read

George Blazyca Award
It is an honor that my book - The Retreat of Liberal Democracy, Palgrave, 2020 - won the BASEES 2022 George Blazyca Book Prize.
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Feb 28, 20221 min read

The national-populist mutation of neoliberalism
We know much about the mutation of neoliberalism in advanced economies. I show how this might happen in investment-dependent economies.
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Feb 20, 20221 min read

Armchair Economics Defeated: How China Escaped Shock Therapy
My review of Isabella Weber's book, How China Escaped Shock Therapy, on the SASE blog.
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Dec 14, 202113 min read

Neoliberal Capitalism and the Visegrad Countermovements
Our special issue—Neoliberal Capitalism and the Visegrad Countermovements—is finally out & complete.
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Dec 3, 20211 min read
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