Selected Publications

2026 Agenda-Setting Studies in Public Policy: Origins, Development, and New Possibilities in the Age of AI (Co-authors: Frank R. Baumgartner, Shaun Bevan) Communication and Change, 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1007/s44382-026-00021-8. Full text.

2026 The Consequences of 'Eastern Opening': Hungary's FDI Shift to China Under Orbán (Co-authors: Sándor Kozák, Ágnes Tőrös) Europe-Asia Studies, 1-30. https://doi.org/10.1080/09668136.2026.2619047. Full text. Repository link. Additional cited material.

2026 Crisis-Exploitation or Fear-Mongering? A Research Agenda for the Comparative Study of Policy Crises and Illiberal Policy Frames (Co-authors: Áron Buzogány, Julia Fleischer, Theresa Gessler, Anna Takács, Sean M. Theriault, Ákos Holányi) Journal of European Public Policy, 33(1): 289-321. https://doi.org/10.1080/13501763.2025.2583176. Full text. Repository link.

2025 Constructing illiberal counterhegemony: Orbán's transnational project as consequence and cause of Europe's polycrisis (Co-authors: Jasper P. Simons, Ilona Szabó). In Andreas Bieler, Vincenzo Maccarrone (eds.) Critical Political Economy of the European Polycrisis, 304-318. Edward Elgar Publishing.

2025 The (worst) laws of the land: The concept of legislative basket cases, legislative backsliding and public administration in Central-Eastern Europe (Co-author: Rebeka Kiss) Policy Studies. https://doi.org/10.1080/01442872.2025.2501741. Full text.

2025 Leveraging Open Large Language Models for Multilingual Policy Topic Classification: The Babel Machine Approach (Co-authors: Máté Ákos, Orsolya Ring, Viktor Kovács, Richárd Lehoczki) Social Science Computer Review, 43(2): 295-317. https://doi.org/10.1177/08944393241259434. Full text. Repository link.

2025 The Concept of Tailor-made Laws and Legislative Backsliding in Central-Eastern Europe (Co-author: Kiss Rebeka) Comparative European Politics. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41295-024-00403-6. Full text. Repository link.

2025 Levelling up quantitative legislative studies on Central-Eastern Europe: Introducing the ParlText CEE Database of Speeches, Bills, and Laws (Co-authors: Csaba Molnár, Anna Takács) Intersections. East European Journal of Society and Politics. https://doi.org/10.17356/ieejsp.v10i4.1327. Full text. Repository link.

2024 The geopolitics of vaccine media representation in Orbán's Hungary—an AI-supported sentiment analysis (Co-authors: Orsolya Ring, Márk György Kis, Martin Balázs Bánóczy, Ágnes Dinnyés) Journal of Computational Social Science. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42001-024-00325-z. Full text. Repository link.

2024 Staying on the Democratic Script? A Deep Learning Analysis of the Speechmaking of U.S. Presidents (Co-authors: Amnon Cavari, Ákos Máté), Policy Studies Journal. 52(4): 709–729. https://doi.org/10.1111/psj.12534. Full text. Repository link.

2023 Comparative European legislative research in the age of large-scale computational text analysis: A review article (Co-authors: Sven-Oliver Proksch, Christian Rauh, Péter Visnovitz, Gergő Balázs, Jan Schwalbach), International Political Science Review, 46(1), 18-39. https://doi.org/10.1177/01925121231199904. Full text.

2023 The Transparency of Constitutional Reasoning: A Text Mining Analysis of the Hungarian Constitutional Court's Jurisprudence (Co-authors: Fruzsina Gárdos-Orosz, Rebeka Kiss, István Járay), Studia Iuridica Lublinensia 32 (3): 11-44. doi:10.17951/sil.2023.32.3.11-44. Full text. Repository link.

2023 Machine Translation as an Underrated Ingredient? Solving Classification Tasks with Large Language Models for Comparative Research (Co-authors: Ákos Máté, Lukasz Wordliczek, Dariusz Stolicki, Ádám Feldmann), Computational Communication Research 5 (2): 1-34. doi:10.5117/CCR2023.2.6.MATE. Full text. Repository link.

2023 The Concept and Measurement of Legislative Backsliding (Co-authors: Rebeka Kiss, Ádám Kovács), Parliamentary Affairs, gsad014, doi:10.1093/pa/gsad014 Full text.

2023 Introducing HUNCOURT: A New Open Legal Database Covering the Decisions of the Hungarian Constitutional Court for Between 1990 and 2021 (Co-authors: Rebeka Kiss, István Járay), Journal of the Knowledge Economy, https://doi.org/10.1007/s13132-023-01395-6. Full text. Repository link.

2022 The (real) need for a human touch: testing a human-machine hybrid topic classification workflow on a New York Times corpus, Quality & Quantity 56, 3621-3643. doi: 10.1007/s11135-021-01287-4. Full text. Repository link.

2022 How Orbán won? Neoliberal disenchantment and the grand strategy of financial nationalism to reconstruct capitalism and regain autonomy. Socio-Economic Review, https://doi.org/10.1093/ser/mwab052. Full text.

2022 Creating an Enhanced Infrastructure of Parliamentary Archives for Better Democratic Transparency and Legislative Research – Report on the OPTED forum in the European Parliament (Brussels, Belgium, 15 June 2022) (Co-author: Rebeka Kiss), International Journal of Parliamentary Studies 2 (2): 278–84. doi:10.1163/26668912-bja10053 Full text. OPTED ↗

2022 Measuring legislative stability – A new approach with data from Hungary, (Co-authors: Bálint György Kubik, Csaba Molnár, István Járay, Anna Székely), European Political Science 21: 491–521. doi:10.1057/s41304-022-00376-8. Repository link. Full text.

2022 Punctuated Equilibrium and Progressive Friction in Socialist Autocracy, Democracy and Hybrid Regimes (Co-authors: Ágnes M. Balázs, Csaba Molnár), Journal of Public Policy 42 (2): 247–69. doi:10.1017/S0143814X21000143. Full text. Repository link.

2022 Mission adapted: the hidden role of governors in shaping central bank operating missions in Hungary (Co-authors: Kristin Makszin and Jasper Simons), East European Politics 38 (1): 101–22. doi:10.1080/21599165.2021.1907351 Full text.

2021 Understanding Agenda Dynamics in Non-democracies. In Zsolt Boda, Miklós Sebők (eds.), Policy Agendas in Autocracy, and Hybrid Regimes: The Case of Hungary, 3–16. Comparative Studies of Political Agendas. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan.

2021 The Multiclass Classification of Newspaper Articles with Machine Learning: The Hybrid Binary Snowball Approach (Co-author: Zoltán Kacsuk), Political Analysis 29 (2): 236–49. doi:10.1017/pan.2020.27. Full text. Repository link.

2021 The effect of central bank communication on sovereign bond yields: The case of Hungary (Co-authors: Ákos Máté and Tamás Barczikay), Plos One 16 (2). doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0245515. Full text. Repository link.

2021 Policy Agendas in Autocracy, and Hybrid Regimes: The Case of Hungary (Co-editor with Zsolt Boda), Comparative Studies of Political Agendas. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-73223-3. ISBN 978-3-030-73222-6

2021 The Data and Methods of the Hungarian Comparative Agendas Project. In Zsolt Boda, Miklós Sebők (eds.), Policy Agendas in Autocracy, and Hybrid Regimes: The Case of Hungary, 63–73. Comparative Studies of Political Agendas. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-73223-3_4

2020 From State Capture to 'Pariah' Status? The Preference Attainment of the Hungarian Banking Association (2006-2014) (Co-author: Sándor Kozák), Business and Politics 23 (2): 179–201. doi:10.1017/bap.2020.8

2019 The Politics of Manufactured Crisis: Political Entrepreneurship and the Fiscal Wars of the early 2010s in the U.S., Intersections: East European Journal of Society and Politics 5 (3): 73–96. doi:10.17356/ieejsp.v5i3.522

2019 The Hungarian Policy Agendas Project (Co-author: Zsolt Boda). In: Frank R Baumgartner, Christian Breunig, Emiliano Grossman (eds.) Comparative Policy Agendas: Theory, Tools, Data, 105–13. Oxford: Oxford University Press

2019 Electoral Reforms, Entry Barriers and the Structure of Political Markets: A Comparative Analysis. (Co-authors: Attila Horváth, Ágnes M. Balázs. European Journal of Political Research 58 (2): 741–68. doi:10.1111/1475-6765.12309

2018 Punctuated Equilibrium In Democracy and Autocracy: An Analysis of Hungarian Budgeting Between 1868 and 2013. (Co-author: Tamás Berki) European Political Science Review 10 (4): 589–611. doi:10.1017/S1755773918000115

2018 Institutional Entrepreneurship and the Mission Creep of the National Bank of Hungary. In: Caner Bakir, Darryl S L Jarvis (eds.) Institutional Entrepreneurship and Policy Change: Theoretical and Empirical Explorations, 243–78. Houndmills in Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-70350-3_10

2018 From Pledge-Fulfilment to Mandate-Fulfilment: An Empirical Theory (Co-author: András Körösényi). Intersections: East European Journal of Society and Politics 4 (1): 115–32. doi:10.17356/ieejsp.v4i1.130

2017 Exercising Control and Gathering Information: The Functions of Interpellations in Hungary (1990-2014). (Co-editor with Bálint Kubik, Csaba Molnár) Journal of Legislative Studies 23 (4): 465–83. doi:10.1080/13572334.2017.1394734

2017 Incrementalism and Punctuated Equilibrium in Hungarian Budgeting (1991-2013) (Co-editor with Tamás Berki) Journal of Public Budgeting, Accounting & Financial Management 29 (2): 151–80. doi:10.1108/jpbafm-29-02-2017-b001

2016 Mandate Slippage, Good and Bad. Making (Normative) Sense of Mandate-Fulfillment. Intersections: East European Journal of Society and Politics 2 (1): 123–52. doi:10.17356/ieejsp.v2i1.131

2016 Coding Policy Influence with ATLAS.ti: Methodological Notes from a Study on Hungarian Banking. In: Friese, S. – Ringmayr, T. (eds.) ATLAS.Ti User Conference 2015: Qualitative Data Analysis and Beyond, 1–15. Berlin: Universitätsverlag der Technischen Universität Berlin.

2015 Delegation and the Crisis-Driven Political Development of Bailout Institutions: The Case of Japan Between 1992 and 2003. Japanese Journal of Political Science 16 (4): 459–88. doi:10.1017/S1468109915000262

2015 Who Decides in Times of Crisis?: A Comparative Examination of Bureaucratic Delegation in 4 EU Countries (2008-2010). Journal of Comparative Politics 2015 (2): 38–52

2010 President Wilson and the International Origins of the Federal Reserve System – A Reappraisal. White House Studies 10 (4): 425–47

2021 Szövegbányászat és mesterséges intelligencia R-ben (Text Mining and Artificial Intelligence in R) (Co-editor with Ákos Máté and Orsolya Ring). Budapest: Typotex Kiadó. ISBN 978-963-493-139-3. Repository link.

2020 A magyar jogalkotás minősége: Elmélet, mérés, eredmények (The Quality of Hungarian Legislation: Theory, Measurement, Empirical Results) (Co-editor with György Gajduschek and Csaba Molnár). Budapest: Gondolat. ISBN 978-963-556-001-1

2020 Empirikus jogi kutatások (Empirical Legal Studies) (Co-editor with András Jakab). Budapest: Osiris. ISBN 978-963-276-384-2

2019 Itt van Amerika: Az amerikai politika hatása Magyarországon (America is here: The Americanisation of Hungarian Politics) (Co-editor with Balázs Böcskei). Budapest: Athenaeum. ISBN 978-963-293-978-0

2019 Paradigmák fogságában: Elitek és ideológiák a magyar pénzügyi kapitalizmusban (Captured by Paradigms: Elites and Ideologies in Hungarian Finance Capitalism). Budapest: Napvilág. ISBN 978-963-338-005-5

2018 A magyar közpolitikai napirend (The Hungarian Policy Agenda) (Co-editor with Zsolt Boda). Budapest. ISBN 978-963-418-018-0

2016 Kvantitatív szövegelemzés és szövegbányászat a politikatudományban (Quantitative Text Analysis and Text Mining in Political Science) Editor and contributor to several chapters. Budapest: L'Harmattan. ISBN 978-963-414-229-4

2014 Hatalom szabályok nélkül – Kormány és törvényhozás viszonya a pénzügyi válság idején (Power without Rules – Executive-Legislative Relations in Times of Financial Crisis). Budapest: Új Mandátum. ISBN 978-963-287-076-2