Balint Madlovics is a junior research fellow at the CEU Democracy Institute. He holds an MA in political science (2018) from Central European University, a BA in economics (2016) from Corvinus University, and a BA in sociology (2021) from Eötvös Loránd University. The research partner of sociologist and DI fellow Bálint Magyar, Madlovics is the co-author of The Anatomy of Post-Communist Regimes (CEU Press, 2020) and A Concise Field Guide to Post-Communist Regimes (CEU Press, 2022). He has published articles in peer-reviewed journals like Public Choice since 2019, and contributed chapters to various reports and volumes of studies since 2015.