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2026-01-27

Hungarian CSOs contribute to the European Commission’s 2026 Rule of Law Report

Report
2025-12-18

We are Family: The State of Rainbow Families in the European Union

Study
2025-06-05

Postponing the new regime defense law may not only be for communication reasons

Analysis
2025-05-15

The draft of the new regime defense law further erodes Hungary's sovereignty

Press release
2025-02-18

Cracks in the façade of Europe’s right-wing unity

Voting patterns, tactics and divisions among non-mainstream parties in the 10th European Parliament
2025-01-31

Sovereignty Protection Office against Átlátszó and Transparency International Hungary

In June 2024, the Sovereignty Protection Office began targeting Transparency International Hungary and Átlátszó
2025-01-27

Hungarian CSOs contribute to the European Commission’s 2025 Rule of Law Report

Report
2024-09-26

Political Polarization in Modern Democracies – Origins, Dynamics, and Consequences

Keynote speech and Panel discussion
2024-09-26

Illiberal Challengers of Liberal Democracy in Europe

Panel discussion
2024-09-26

Why Is Autocracy Thriving? – Interview with Anne Applebaum

Interview
2024-09-26

Political Leadership in the 21st Century: Populism, Authoritarianism, Dictatorship

Keynote speech and Panel discussion
2024-09-26

What does it Take to Win? – Insights and Lessons from Russia's War in Ukraine

Panel discussion
2024-09-26

Empowering Europe: Strengthening Democracy, Protecting Citizens from Authoritarian Influence, and Addressing External Economic and Political Challenges

Panel discussion
2024-09-26

Keynote Speech by Ambassador David Pressman

Keynote Speech
2024-09-26

Navigating Central European Journalism: Unraveling the Current Landscape and Financial Dynamics

Panel discussion
2024-09-26

Green Transition and 15-Minute Cities: A Path to Sustainable Urban Living – Lecture by Carlos Moreno

Lecture
2024-09-26

Green Transition of the Capitals of the EU Enlargement Countries

Panel discussion
2024-09-26

Opening and Welcome Speeches

Opening and Welcome Speeches
2024-09-26

The Future of Europe in Light of the EU Enlargement: Challenges, Opportunities and Reforms

Keynote speech and panel discussion
2024-09-26

Budapest Forum - 18-19 September 2024 - Summaries of Panels

Budapest Forum - Summaries of Panels
2024-09-17

Growing influence of Russia and China in the new European Parliament?

An analysis of the votes of radical right, far-right and far-left parties on Russia and China in the European Parliament
2024-02-12

The ongoing child sexual abuse scandal threatens the very foundations of the Orbán regime

Analysis
2024-01-16

Hungarian CSOs contribute to the European Commission’s 2024 Rule of Law Report

Report
2023-11-14

Towards a Resilient Hungary: Political Capital's Proposals for a Genuine Protection of Sovereignty

Proposal
2023-07-11

NATO Public Forum 2023

NATO Public Forum 2023, Vilnius, Lithuania
2023-06-30

Seizing an Unparalleled Opportunity to Meet EU Strategic Objectives - The Case for Cities' Increased Direct Access to EU Funding

Study
2022-07-22

Anti-gender and anti-LGBTQI mobilisation in Hungary: evolution, actors, networks

In our research, we investigated the mobilisation's driving forces, evolution, domestic actors and their international connections
2021-09-24

Budapest Forum (16-17/09/2021)

On September 16-17, 2021, Budapest Municipality, Political Capital, and CEU Democracy Institute held the inaugural Budapest Forum for Building Sustainable Democracies, intending to establish a new annual event.
2021-03-11

Hungarian NGOs contribute to the European Commission’s second Rule of Law Report

Press release
2020-12-10

New GLOBSEC study finds that the willingness to get vaccinated against the COVID-19 rises with the trust in public authorities

GLOBSEC Trends
2020-11-30

Band aid for rule of law wounds – actionable recommendations for legislative amendments improving the system of checks and balances in Hungary

Press Release
2020-11-12

What’s Next?

Flash analysis on the proposed amendment to electoral laws in Hungary
2020-05-28

Nothing is more permanent than a temporary solution - the state of danger will come to an end in Hungary, but its impact remains

Political Capital's Flash Report
2020-05-12

Hungarian NGOs’ contribution to European Commission’s first Rule of Law Report

Press release
2020-04-08

Quarantine podcasts, Bologna Edition – a discussion with Erik Jones on Italian and EU politics

A podcast about the political and economic situation in Italy, policy responses to the corona crisis, the future of the European integration. Guest: Erik Jones
2020-03-25

Abusing the state of emergency

Political Capital’s flash report
2020-01-17

63% of MEPs sitting in the EPP voted against Orbán and Kaczyński

The EP decided on 16 January to advocate for further consultations and measures concerning breaches to the rule of law and stated that in the past period the situation only deteriorated in Hungary and Poland.
2019-10-29

Lifting the veil of Fidesz’s invincibility

A summary of the joint study of Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung and Political Capital on the consequences of the most recent elections in Hungary
2019-10-03

Rule of Law issues in Hungary

Brief overview - most important milestones of how the country’s illiberal system has been built up in the last 9 years
2019-07-31

Anti-Muslim populism in Hungary: From the margins to the mainstream

At the request of the Brookings Institution, Political Capital implemented a research project to understand the evolution of right-wing populism through its relationship to Islam and Muslims
2019-03-21

Is the Hungarian society anti-democratic?

The Hungarian results of an international research project on public attitudes to an open society
2018-12-10

What do young Central Europeans think about democracy in the media and political space of the 21st century?

National Democratic Institute and Political Capital’s joint study on young people’s commitment to democracy
2018-07-31

Beyond populism – tribalism in Poland and Hungary

Political Capital's new report on populism in Poland and Hungary.

2018-06-22

Constitutional amendments and Stop Soros: shifting illiberalism into higher gear in Hungary

Read our latest Flash Report
2018-06-05

Illiberalism in the V4: Pressure points and bright spots

A comparative study on the democratic backsliding in the Visegrád countries
2018-04-23

Knowledge about and attitudes on the Hungarian electoral system

Research summary
2018-02-26

Hódmezővásárhely: a historic defeat for Fidesz

Flash Report on the mayoral by-election
2017-11-20

Political Capital launched a project under the Europe for Citizens Programme

A project for debating euroscepticism in Hungary
2017-11-08

The future of Visegrád in the shadow of illiberalism and the EU’s macropolitical environment

A study by Political Capital.
2017-10-11

The new relationship of politics and media - the case of Hungary

A study by Political Capital
2017-07-04

Citizenship empowerment

Potential for civic participation in the Visegrad 4 countries, 2017 & 2018
2017-06-28

Cas Mudde: The era of big catch-all parties is over

He truly believes there is no other option to defeat Fidesz than for all other parties to work together, through strategic electoral behavior rather than through an electoral coalition. He also claims that as long as the EU leave criticism to words, Orbán is fine, but he wouldn’t survive sustained E
2017-06-16

Fighting back: Liberal Democratic Responses to the Populist Challenge

CEU Center for European Neighborhood Studies, Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Policy Solutions and Political Capital cooperated to organise a public debate on populism, which took place at CEU on June 8, 2017
2017-05-08

Thomas Melia: Democracy is in global recession

Viktor Orbán is following Vladimir Putin’s path by trying to dismantle the nascent democratc systems being built in their countries in the wake of the destruction caused by communism and he is trying to isolate Hungary from the community of free states - our interview with Thomas Melia, a former Dep
2017-02-15

The state of civil society in the EU and Russia 2016

In 2016, on behalf of the EU-Russia Civil Society Forum Political Capital conducted a research on the state of civil society in Hungary. The report, which was prepared for the first time, covers four EU member states plus Russia.

2017-01-19

Populism and Russian influence in Europe

The joint study of the Washington-based American Enterprise Institute and Political Capital examined the driving forces behind European populism and Russian influence exerted on the main political forces.
2017-01-19

Populism in Europe and Its Russian Love Affair

Populists are increasingly dominating politics in Europe. This paper provides an overview of the populist landscape in Europe, including its history, its ideological underpinnings on both the political left and right, and the factors that have contributed to its resurgence
2016-10-03

7 statements about the referendum

The one and a half year-long political campaign, which has been the most expensive one ever in Hungary, was not enough for a valid referendum. The 40% voter turnout shows that the campaign considerably underperformed the governing party’s expectations, the representatives of which had been talking a
2016-08-08

Dismantling direct democracy: Referenda in Hungary

With the anti-quota referendum, one of the gravest dangers of illiberal politics seems to be materialising: the leadership’s reaction is making the tools of direct democracy (besides those of representative democracy) meaningless
2016-01-31

Egy illiberális vízió eddigi hatásai a magyar politikai berendezkedésre

Egy illiberális vízió eddigi hatásai a magyar politikai berendezkedésre – tanulmány a jelenlegi magyar politikai berendezkedésről és a gyakran kormányzati/kormányfői vízióként meghatározott „illiberá
2016-01-08

The new Hungarian election system’s beneficiaries

The policy paper looks at deficiencies in the election system from the perspective of political interests and wishes to make review recommendations exclusively in cases where a basic election principle is violated or the potential for serious fraud is detected.
2015-11-09

Trust within Europe

This study summarizes the findings of Political Capital’s research on the nature and tendencies of political trust.
2015-04-16

Votes of the poor - public works and the perils of clean elections

Summary of the study by Átlátszó, K-Monitor, Political Capital and Transparency International Hungary
2014-06-06

Fidesz overwrites the rules of the municipal elections

Fidesz rewrites the rules in the middle of the game and is ready to change the local election system to suit its own purposes.
2014-02-18

The winner takes it all

Fidesz has implemented the most significant changes in the electoral system since the transition. Below, we summarize the most important changes based on their impact on the electoral results.
2013-08-02

New Electoral System in the Home Stretch

An analysis of the effects of the new Hungarian electoral procedure law and the campaign finance law.
2013-05-15

Demokratikus Deficitek az Európai Unióban

A Political Capital Institute és a Friedrich Ebert Alapítvány meghívja Önt a Demokratikus Deficitek az Európai Unióban című konferenciájára.
2012-12-17

Notes on the current phase of electoral reform in Hungary

With a two-thirds majority in parliament, Hungary’s governing party alliance, Fidesz-KDNP, has created a completely new electoral system.
2012-05-24

Party funding and prior registration ahead of the elections

The Fidesz leadership is making further efforts to improve the election prospects of the party.
2012-04-20

Halfway into the Hungarian electoral reform

Electoral law already passed, law on procedure is still uncertain - Political Capital Institute analyses the reform process of the Hungarian electoral system and its anticipated consequences.
2011-10-26

New election system: nothing is carved in stone

New election system: nothing is carved in stone
2011-07-20

New election system in Hungary: under construction

At its July 9 meeting the Fidesz presidency discussed options for a new election system,although no decision has been reached on key issues.
2011-04-22

Regime Consolidation: A Missed Opportunity

The new constitution in Hungary is not anti-democratic; however, it does harm to the conditions of Hungary’s medium- and long-term political stability.
2010-12-01

Az új választási rendszer kilátásai

A kedvező fejlemények mégsem garantálják, hogy a kormánypártokénál szélesebb egyetértés jegyében születik majd meg az új választási rendszer.
2010-10-28

Constitutional Court Curtailed: Good news for fiscal balance, bad for democracy

Hungary’s governing Fidesz party initiated an unprecedented effort October 26 to strip the Constitutional Court – Hungary’s final authority on legislative questions – of a number of powers.
2010-10-04

Hungary’s Local Elections: Fidesz Clobbers Opponents

Fidesz, which leads the strongest government since 1990, has reached all of its political goals by extending its power over most municipalities.
2010-02-10

A Two-Thirds Majority for Fidesz – Chances, Opportunities and Risks

The opposition Fidesz party is heading into the April election campaign with such a commanding opinion-poll lead that it may gain a two-thirds majority in Parliament.
2009-08-27

Elections in Hungary Overshadowed by Constitutional Problems

Parliamentary elections to be held in the spring of 2010 carry constitutional and political risks due to an outdated election system.
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