This book gives the first comprehensive and theoretically substantiated political science
account of the Orbán regime in English. It argues that Viktor Orbán's regime-building and …

For two decades Hungary, like the other Eastern European countries, followed a general
policy of establishing and strengthening the institutions of democracy, rule of law, and a …

The term paradigm was introduced to the philosophy of science by Thomas Kuhn—he used
this term to denote the specific approach applied by a school of reasearch to examine its …

The “return of the state” as an economic actor has left scholars at a lack of theoretical tools to
capture the characteristics of state-dominated business systems. This is reflected in the fact …

The foreign direct investment (FDI)-led development path of the East-Central European
(ECE) countries has been queried most recently. Using mainly the evidence of Hungary and …

The foundation of the European Union was one of the most important historical events in the
second half of the 20th century. In order to fully appreciate the modern state of the EU, it is …

This OA book provides a comparative study of housing contention in Budapest and
Bucharest in 2008-2021. The financialization of housing and the resulting inequalities …

The expansion of public ownership after 2008 occurred in many European countries as a
crisis-management tool. Is the new wave of Hungarian nationalisation a part of this general …

Nowadays our everyday life is unimaginable without energy, because all the sectors are
using different forms of energy. In our article we decided to analyse the following question …

This paper deals with the politics of the boom, crisis and aftermath of foreign currency-
denominated (FX) lending in Hungary from the 2000s to the 2010s, focusing on the most …