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Gabor Scheiring, PhD
Political Economist, Public Sociologist
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Dec 11 min read
MSNBC Interview
Gabor Scheiring interviewed by Joy Reid about Trump, authoritarian populism and the striking parallels with Viktor Orban's Hungary.
gaborscheiring
Nov 239 min read
My article in Politico
I Watched Orbán Destroy Hungary’s Democracy. Here’s My Advice for the Trump Era.
gaborscheiring
Jul 25 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.
gaborscheiring
Mar 131 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...
gaborscheiring
Mar 134 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
gaborscheiring
Jan 181 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...
gaborscheiring
Jun 17, 20231 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,...
gaborscheiring
Jun 16, 20238 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...
gaborscheiring
Jun 16, 202212 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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Apr 22, 20225 min read
Deindustrialization, social disintegration, and health
This article for the Marxist Sociology Blog presents a novel theory on deindustrialization, social disintegration, and health.
gaborscheiring
Mar 29, 20229 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.
gaborscheiring
Feb 28, 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.
gaborscheiring
Dec 14, 202113 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.
gaborscheiring
Oct 11, 202112 min read
From Socialist to Capitalist Walls
Taking Stock of Shock results from a massive interdisciplinary endeavor, a timely and crucial contribution to the debate on postsocialism.
gaborscheiring
Aug 11, 20219 min read
The Mutation of Neoliberalism
In this contribution to ISRF Bulletin 24, I inquire into the nature of the specific form of national-populist neoliberalism that has...
gaborscheiring
Jul 20, 202110 min read
Is Neoliberalism Finally Dead?
Few concepts have been declared dead and buried more often than neoliberalism. However, it continues to survive. Neoliberal Resilience,...
gaborscheiring
Jun 17, 202113 min read
The Socio-Economics of Illiberalism
My (slightly provocative) essay for SASE on how (not) to research illiberalism: The culture/economy dichotomy is artificial & unproductive.
gaborscheiring
Jun 3, 20218 min read
Illiberal Finance: Think Globally, Act Locally
How does the collusion of international finance & domestic oligarchy lead to illiberalism?
gaborscheiring
May 7, 20218 min read
The political economy of the post-socialist mortality crisis
The number of excess deaths could have been ca. 7.3 million in Eastern Europe in 1991-99. What explains the postsocialist mortality crisis?
gaborscheiring
Mar 26, 20219 min read
The Socio-Economics of Health and Dying
This essay examines the multidisciplinary debate around what has recently been referred to as an epidemic of ‘deaths of despair.’...
gaborscheiring
Feb 23, 20218 min read
The National Populist Mutation Of Neoliberalism
Globalist neoliberalism, with its focus on human rights and multilateralism, is on the decline. However, its alternative is not a...
gaborscheiring
Dec 8, 20201 min read
National Capitalism in Orbán's Hungary (Interview)
Behind the veneer of economic nationalism, Hungary is one of the breeding grounds of a new incarnation of neoliberalism.
gaborscheiring
Nov 30, 20204 min read
Insights from Hungary to beat Trumpism
Three pitfalls from a Hungarian perspective that could hinder beating Trumpism after Trump vacates the White House. The official start of...
gaborscheiring
Nov 20, 20206 min read
Why Viktor Orbán took the EU hostage
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...
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