Ervin Csizmadia

Ervin Csizmadia is founder and director of the independent Hungarian think tank Centre for Fair Political Analysis. He is also Senior Research Fellow at the Hungarian Academy of Science's Institute for Political Science. He has written 11 books so far. His latest book, The Logic of Hungarian Political Development: Can the Present Be Compared to the Past? was published in Hungarian in December 2017. The English version will be available in the second half of 2018.

The Hungarian Ruse

Ervin Csizmadia

Two and a half months before the Hungarian parliamentary elections, the majority of foreign observers have presumptively called the outcome: the ruling party Fidesz will ... Read more

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