European Studies Team

Research areas

• Democracy and autocracy in Central and Eastern Europe
• European Union
• Emotions in politics
• Culture and politics

Office hours

The best way to reach us is by e-mail.

Research areas

• Dismantling of democracy and rule of law in the Member States of the European Union and EU rule of law instruments ("rule of law toolbox"), e.g. procedures under Art. 7 TEU, infringement procedures, rule of law conditionality, etc.
• Hungarian political system and politics in Hungary
• The political systems of the states of Central and Eastern Europe
• Regime and democratic development in the post-transformation phase
• Constitutional policy

Research areas

• Memory politics
• Right-wing extremism
• Social movements & protest
• Literature as a sociological source / social analysis in novels
• City and spatial sociology