Research Interests

Márton Gerő, PhD is a Research Fellow at the Institute for Sociology of the Centre for Social Sciences and Assistant Professor of Sociology at the Faculty of Social Sciences of Eötvös Loránd University. He received his PhD at Eötvös Loránd University in 2019. His main research interest includes civil society, social movements, the use of enemy images in political communication, and the processes of political integration in Central and Eastern Europe and in Israel. He published in Hungarian and English language journals as Politics and Governance, or the Journal of Civil Society, or Intersections, East European Journal of Society and Politics. Currently, his main research project is ’Civil society, enemy images and redistribution: The interplay between structural factors and political action in the process of de-democratization´ (NKFIH -134768), and also participates in other Hungarian and EU funded research projects.  

Selected Publications

Gerő, M., Fejős, A., Kerényi, S., & Szikra, D. (2023). From Exclusion to Co-Optation: Political Opportunity Structures and Civil Society Responses in De-Democratising Hungary. Politics and Governance, 11(1), 16-27. https://doi.org/10.17645/pag.v11i1.5883

Csanádi, M., Gerő, M., Hajdu, M., Kovách, I., Tóth, I. J., & Laki, M. (2022). Dynamics of an Authoritarian System. In Dynamics of an Authoritarian System. Central European University Press.

Gerő, M., Susánszky, P., Kopper, Á., & Tóth, G. (2020). Strategies for Survival: Human Rights Organizations' Responses to the Closing of Political Opportunity Structures in Hungary. Politologicky Casopis, 27(2). doi: 10.5817/PC2020-2-119

Gerő, M., & Sik, E. (2020). The Moral Panic Button 1: Construction and Consequences. In Europe and the Refugee Response (pp. 39-58). Routledge.

Gerő, M., & Szabó, A. (2020). Struktúra és cselekvés. n: Kovách, Imre (szerk.) Integrációs mechanizmusok a magyar társadalomban. Budapest, Magyarország : Argumentum Kiadó, Társadalomtudományi Kutatóközpont (2020) 432 p. pp. 45-82. , 38 p.

Research Projects

BRIDGES: Assessing the production and impact of migration narratives (participating researcher, PI: Sik Endre)

The changing significance of class in comparative perspective (participating researcher, PI: Ákos Huszár)

Tudományellenes mozgalmak és attitűdök a koronavírus-járvány alatt (MTA poszt-covid) (résztvevő kutató, kutatásvezető: Mikecz Dániel)

Mobility Centre of Excellence (participating researcher, PI: Imre Kovách)