Zsolt BODA is research professor and director general of the HUN-REN Centre for Social Sciences as well as part-time professor of political science at the ELTE University of Budapest. He holds an MA in economics, a PhD as well as a DSc in political science. He did research at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, the University of Versailles as well as the Centre des Sciences de l’Homme, Paris and was teaching at Paris 6, the University of Nordland, and the European University Viadrina. His academic work focuses on the problems of policy change and governance styles under different political regimes, as well as institutional trust, its social roots and its consequences for policy effectiveness. From 2019 to 2022 he was the principal investigator of DEMOS – Democratic efficacy and the varieties of populism in Europe, a consortial H2020 project. He is now leading MORES – Moral emotions in politics: how they unite, how they divide, an EU Horizon consortial research project. His publications include: Boda, Z. (2023). “Shrinking space: the changing political opportunities of advocacy groups in illiberal governance”. European Politics & Society 25(4), 664–683; Sebők, M. & Boda, Z. eds. (2021). Policy Agendas in Autocracy, and Hybrid Regimes: The Case of Hungary, Palgrave Macmillan; Bartha, A., Boda, Z., Szikra, D. (2020). “When Populist Leaders Govern: Conceptualising Populism in Policy Making”, Politics and Governance, 8 (3), 71-81.

PhD in social sciences from Universidade de Brasília, with a doctoral internship from University of Oxford. Lawyer and bachelor of law from PUCRS. Professor and researcher in the areas of public administration, law and political science, focusing on the process of digital transformation of the democratic state and the rule of law