Gábor Scheiring

Hungary

Gábor Scheiring, from Hungary, is an assistant professor of comparative politics at Georgetown University in Qatar. He previously served as a visiting fellow at Harvard University’s Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies and as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Cambridge and Bocconi University. Scheiring’s research explores the political economy and lived experiences of contemporary economic transformations through quantitative, qualitative, and comparative methods. He focuses on how economic shocks create precarity, leading to mental and physical suffering, and how these processes impact democratic stability. His book, The Retreat of Liberal Democracy (Palgrave Macmillan 2020), which won the George Blazyca Prize from the British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies in 2021, examines how working-class dislocation and elite co–optation foster illiberalism in Hungary. Scheiring’s work has been published in leading journals such as the British Journal of Political Science, Socio-Economic Review, Theory and Society, The Lancet Global Health, the Annual Review of Sociology, and the Cambridge Journal of Economics. As a member of the Hungarian Parliament from 2010 to 2014, he advocated for a socially just transition to sustainability.