Gabor Scheiring, PhD

Happy to share my review of Ali Kadivar's excellent book on the social foundations of democracies, just out in the American Journal of...

I contributed a chapter to the Routledge Handbook of Autocratization. ABSTRACT This chapter reviews the role of social class dynamics...

Thrilled to share our article just out in the British Journal of Political Science. The first meta-analysis of the evidence of a causal...

It's great to see our chapter on the political economy of the postsocialist mortality crisis published early this year.

Why did 7M people die prematurely in Eastern Europe during the transition in the 90s? In our paper in the Cambridge Journal of Economics,...

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...

The American Journal of Sociology published a review of my book, The retreat of liberal democracy.

In our new Annual Review of Sociology article, we compare the American Deaths of Despair epidemic and the postsocialist mortality crisis.

We present a neoclassical sociological synthesis of the lived experience of deindustrialization and its implications for health.

We know much about the mutation of neoliberalism in advanced economies. I show how this might happen in investment-dependent economies.

Our special issue—Neoliberal Capitalism and the Visegrad Countermovements—is finally out & complete.

The world is facing a new wave of autocratization. This chapter reviews the social foundations of illiberalism.

This special issue analyzes the lived experience of postsocialist economic change and its relation to populism.

The rise of populism has cast doubt on the sustainability of the marriage of liberal democracy and neoliberal capitalism.

How do populists govern health? How are they handling covid19? We answer these questions by analyzing Viktor Orban's Hungary.

Analyzing transformations in Romania & Hungary this article shows that neoliberalism is not over, just changing, leading to...

Situations of Dependency, Mechanisms of Dependency Governance, and the Rise of Populism in Hungary and Poland Dependency theory is back!...

Abstract An unprecedented mortality crisis struck Eastern Europe during the transition from socialism to capitalism. Working-class men...

The article conceptualises Hungary's neo-nationalist turn as a Polanyian countermovement against globalisation and deindustrialisation.

Abstract The ten countries with the fastest shrinking population are all located in Eastern Europe, with low fertility as one of the...

Deindustrialization and deaths of despair: mapping the impact of industrial decline on ill health A growing literature on deaths of...

Transcending disciplinary boundaries, the book provides a fresh answer to a simple & profound question: why has liberal democracy retreated?

Relying on Polanyi & Gramsci, the article analyses the socio-economic roots of illiberal populism in Hungary.

This analysis explains the political-economic logic of Orbanomics.