Our Research Affiliate Erin Jenne has been selected as the recipient of the 2022 CEU Research Excellence Award for her exceptional performance in terms of research and publications this academic year.
De-/Re-Democratization
Semi-authoritarian regimes are manipulating elections from Ankara to Yangon, yet they maintain a genuine base of support. To understand the dynamics of the vitality of such regimes, the Institute studies their propaganda, social and media policies, electoral strategies, informal power relations, and actors of influence, producing scholarship relevant for both academics and practitioners.
Researchers
| Zsolt Enyedi | Lead Researcher / CEU Research Affiliate / CEU Professor |
| Andreas Schedler | Lead Researcher / Senior Research Fellow |
| Daniel Bochsler | CEU Research Affiliate / CEU Associate Professor |
| Matthijs Bogaards | CEU Research Affiliate / CEU Associate Professor |
| Andras Bozoki | CEU Research Affiliate / CEU Professor |
| Laszlo Bruszt | Co-director / CEU Professor |
| Dorit Geva | CEU Research Affiliate / CEU Professor |
| Erin Kristin Jenne | CEU Research Affiliate / CEU Professor |
| David Karas | OSUN Post-doctoral Fellow |
| Janos Kis | Senior Research Fellow / CEU University Professor |
| Levente Littvay | CEU Research Affiliate / CEU Professor |
| Balint Madlovics | Junior Research Fellow |
| Balint Magyar | Senior Research Fellow |
| Jennifer McCoy | Research Affiliate |
| Inna Melnykovska | CEU Research Affiliate / CEU Assistant Professor |
| Wolfgang Merkel | Senior Research Fellow |
| Filip Milacic | Research Affiliate |
| Edgar Sar | Research Affiliate |
| Carsten Q. Schneider | CEU Research Affiliate / CEU Professor |
| Julia Sonnevend | Research Affiliate |
| Andras Szalai | Research Fellow |
| Lili Turza | Research Affiliate |
Projects
News
June 29, 2022
The Neo-Authoritarianisms in Europe and the Liberal Democratic Response project brings a consortium of eight institutions from across Europe together to study how liberal democracies can respond to their challengers.
June 27, 2022
“Putin's and Orban's regimes are almost identical, both are post-communist mafia states,” our Senior Research Fellow Balint Magyar said in an interview with ARD.
June 24, 2022
Television is still the main source of political information for Hungarians, our Research Affiliate Zsolt Enyedi and Andrea Szabo write in their fifth article on Telex.hu, analyzing the results of a survey commissioned by the CEU Democracy Institute.
June 23, 2022
In their fourth article on Telex.hu our Research Affiliate Zsolt Enyedi and Andrea Szabo analyzed the ideological environment of the Hungarian elections, based on a survey by Zavecz Research commissioned by the CEU Democracy Institute.
Audiovisuals
April 7, 2022
Did you miss the presentation of our Research Affiliate Erin Jenne, who introduced the Nationalism-Populism-Social Conservatism database of chief executives? Watch it now!
April 5, 2022
Our Research Affiliate Zsolt Enyedi was interviewed by Cas Mudde for his Radikaal Podcast series.
March 16, 2022
Did you miss this lecture on polarization and protecting democracy by our Research Affiliate Jennifer McCoy? Watch it now!
March 16, 2022
Did you miss this lecture by Filip Milacic, Senior Researcher for Democracy and Society at the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, Vienna? Watch it now!
February 24, 2022
Ken Roberts talks to Levente Littvay about "Populism, Political Conflict and Grass Roots Organization in Latin America."