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DI researchers publish academic articles, books, book chapters, reports, working papers, etc. Here you'll find all of them. 

Borbala Klacsmann, Andrea Peto: Exegi monumentum: monuments of Jews in public spaces in Budapest as texts (1880–1944)

Borbala Klacsmann and our Research Affiliate Andrea Peto's new paper from a research project mapping Jewish interventions in public art in Budapest was published in the journal Immigrants & Minorities.

Azul A. Aguiar Aguilar: Subverting Judicial Legitimacy: Presidential Rhetoric and Democratic Erosion in Mexico

In the latest DI Working Paper, using an original database, ITESO Professor Azul A. Aguiar Aguilar analyzes how attacks on the judiciary can lead to democratic erosion and what role judges play in accelerating or stopping such regression.

Sarah Ganty, Dimitry Kochenov: How the EU Death Machine Works

In a post for the journalistic-academic blog Verfassungsblog, our CEU Research Affiliate Sarah Ganty and Dimitry Kochenov, lead researcher of our Rule of Law Workgroup discuss how the EU's "lawlessness law" is responsible for the migrant deaths on the Mediterranean, turning the sea into "a racialized grave."

Andrea Krizsan, Conny Roggeband: The Insidious Link Between Autocratisation and Gender-Based Violence

"Gender-based violence has become a tool for right-wing populist parties and governments to promote and sustain an exclusionary ideal of the nation and 'the people' as white, patriarchal, and heteronormative," the Lead Researcher of our Inequalities and Democracy Working Group, Andrea Krizsan and Conny Roggeband argue on the LOOP Blog of the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR).

Elena Basheska, Dimitry Kochenov: Migration and Citizenship in Europe – Does ‘Illiberalism’ Matter?

Our Post-doctoral Research Fellow Elena Basheska and Dimitry Kochenov, lead researcher of our Rule of Law Workgroup published a new paper entitled Migration and Citizenship in Europe – Does ‘Illiberalism’ Matter? Eurowhiteness Solidarity from the EU and Hungary to the UK, COMPAS Working Paper No, 167-2024 (University of Oxford).

Zsolt Enyedi: Illiberal Conservatism, Civilisationalist Ethnocentrism, and Paternalist Populism in Orbán's Hungary

In a new article in the journal Contemporary Politics, our Senior Research Fellow Zsolt Enyedi identifies three principal ideological modules of the Orbán regime: illiberal conservatism, civilisationist ethnocentrism, and paternalist populism.

Andreas Schedler, Alexander Bor: The End of Democratic Consolidation in the US

The US has ceased to be a consolidated democracy, Andreas Schedler, lead researcher of our De- and Re-Democratization Workgroup and Alexander Bor, our Post-doctoral Fellow write in the latest DI Working Paper based on the results of their online survey "Polarization and Democratic Trust in the U.S."

Andras Sajo: Militant Rule of Law and Not-So-Bad Law

"In illiberal regimes, the self-corrective mechanisms of the rule of law are gradually eliminated, but the name of the game remains the rule of law," our Senior Research Fellow Andras Sajo writes in the latest DI Working Paper.

Armin Langer, Zoltan Adam and Andras Bozoki: Religion and Authoritarian Legitimacy

In a new book chapter co-authored with Armin Langer and Zoltan Adam, our Research Affiliate Andras Bozoki analyzed the Pentecostal Faith Church's links to the Orban regime.

Barbara Grabowska-Moroz: The Pegasus scandal in Poland – between old problems with state surveillance and the current rule of law crisis

Our Post-doctoral Research Fellow Barbara Grabowska-Moroz calls for the transformation of captured institutions in her analysis of the Pegasus scandal in Poland in a new piece for About:intel.