Gabor Scheiring, PhD

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

How can we interpret the characteristic steps of the Hungarian government to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic?

Death rates were strong predictors of the Trump Brexit votes. Rising working-class mortality signals both economic and democratic failure.

The government’s responses to Covid-19 correspond to the logic of Orbanomics: capitalism for the poor, socialism for the rich.

This analysis explains the political-economic logic of Orbanomics.

The health of people and the health of democracy are intertwined.

What do Italy and Hungary reveal about the political-economic background of the coronavirus crisis? My article in the Italian weekly Left.

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

The false Western sense of superiority endangers people.

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

The local government elections brought advances for the opposition but also new challenges for the left.

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

What are the deeper challenges facing contemporary left-wing class politics in Hungary?

Authoritarian leaders find it hard to tolerate independent voices, and academic freedom is no different. After Prime Minister of Hungary...

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

Blaming citizens for their alleged populist or anti-democratic turn is misleading. Without the active involvement of the economic elite,...

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.

As the world awakens from the shock of Donald Trump being elected, liberals and people on the left have started to draw the conclusions....

The crisis of the Left, a post-communist peculiarity until just a few years ago, has become critical all over Europe. If the Left wants...

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