Gabor Scheiring, PhD

Gabor Scheiring interviewed by Joy Reid about Trump, authoritarian populism and the striking parallels with Viktor Orban's Hungary.

I Watched Orbán Destroy Hungary’s Democracy. Here’s My Advice for the Trump Era.

In this article in The Conversation, I dive into our first-of-its-kind meta-analysis published in the British Journal of Political Science.

“I watched Hungary’s democracy dissolve into authoritarianism as a member of parliament — and I see troubling parallels in Trumpism and...

I watched Hungary’s democracy dissolve into authoritarianism as a member of parliament − and I see troubling parallels in Trumpism

I'm enthusiastic about the next six months as a visiting scholar at Harvard University's Centre for European Studies. The research for...

The essay, published in the journal of ATTAC France, explains why Polish populism is labor-oriented, Czech populism is pro-status quo,...

In this op-ed, I explore the latest Freedom House Nations in Transit Report, its implications for Hungary, and how the report only...

New Perspectives on Deindustrialization as Socio-Economic Disintegration - Our essay with Anne-Marie Jeannet for the SASE blog.

This article for the Marxist Sociology Blog presents a novel theory on deindustrialization, social disintegration, and health.

A fundamental contradiction lies at the heart of Western foreign policy: economic liberalism undermines democracy promotion.

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

My review of Isabella Weber's book, How China Escaped Shock Therapy, on the SASE blog.

Taking Stock of Shock results from a massive interdisciplinary endeavor, a timely and crucial contribution to the debate on postsocialism.

In this contribution to ISRF Bulletin 24, I inquire into the nature of the specific form of national-populist neoliberalism that has...

Few concepts have been declared dead and buried more often than neoliberalism. However, it continues to survive. Neoliberal Resilience,...

My (slightly provocative) essay for SASE on how (not) to research illiberalism: The culture/economy dichotomy is artificial & unproductive.

How does the collusion of international finance & domestic oligarchy lead to illiberalism?

The number of excess deaths could have been ca. 7.3 million in Eastern Europe in 1991-99. What explains the postsocialist mortality crisis?

This essay examines the multidisciplinary debate around what has recently been referred to as an epidemic of ‘deaths of despair.’...

Globalist neoliberalism, with its focus on human rights and multilateralism, is on the decline. However, its alternative is not a...

Behind the veneer of economic nationalism, Hungary is one of the breeding grounds of a new incarnation of neoliberalism.

Three pitfalls from a Hungarian perspective that could hinder beating Trumpism after Trump vacates the White House. The official start of...

Orbán is right to worry about EU funds becoming conditional on the rule of law. It threatens his whole socio-economic model The EU and...