Gabor Scheiring, PhD

To understand the emergence, stability of Orbán's illiberal regime, this article digs into the contradictions of postsocialist liberalism.

Non-technical summary of the Privatisation and Mortality project that analyzed the political economy of the postsocialist mortality crisis.

What are the economic roots Hungary's authoritarian turn, and how could we conceptualise the post-2010 regime?

We review 39 cross-national multi-variable peer reviewed studies of social determinants of mortality in post-socialist Europe.

To understand the emergence of authoritarian capitalism in Hungary, this paper digs into the contradictions of liberal economic policies.

The study calculates population attributable risk fraction (PARF) of cancer deaths from smoking and alcohol in Russia, Belarus and Hungary.

Prolonged state ownership was associated with protection of life chances during the post-socialist transformation for women.

Eastern Europe underwent dramatic economic and demographic changes in recent history with skyrocketing mortality rates in the 1990s.

The rapid pace of privatisation was a significant factor in the marked increase in working-age male mortality in post-Soviet Russia.

The article describes the study Protocol of the PrivMort Project, a multilevel cohort study measuring the health impact of economic change.

The paper analyses the tensions between dependent financialisation and democracy building on Polanyi's work utilising the case of Hungary.

Progressive politics needs bold new visions that can be contrasted to current processes of erosion, such as the idea of the basic income.

This chapter summarizes the theory and evidence regarding Mass Privatization programmes in the post-communist environment.

This article provides a Weberian-class-based and international-political-economy-inspired account of de-democratization in Hungary.

This chapter provides an analysis of the social impact of private sector participation in the water sector in Hungary.

I present a friendly critique of Burawoy's public sociology manifesto, building on my experience as a social activist and young researcher.

A few years into the transition to a market-economy, Hungarians have discovered that private ownership does not necessarily mean well-being.