Month: July 2023

On 18 July 2023, Rebeka Kiss attended the Second Annual Opposition Studies Conference in London, hosted by the Centre for Opposition Studies with the Centre for British Politics and Government, King’s College London. The event centred around topics relating to the study of political opposition from disciplines including political studies, political science, and history, focusing on the UK and Europe. Rebeka Kiss’s presentation was entitled “Do MPs justify the draft laws submitted to the parliament? – An empirical analysis of evidence-based decision-making and the quality of explanatory notes.”

The Centre for Social Sciences has recently won 2 grants, in which our senior researcher Orsonya Ring is going to participate. Congratulations! The grants are the following: Moral emotions in politics – how they unite, how they divide (MORES) – Zsolt Boda Grievance Politics and Democracy (PLEDGE) – Gabriella Szabó

On July 4th and 5th, Miklós Sebők (along with work package co-leader Sven-Oliver Proksch and Christian Rauh) presented the final results of Work Package 5 (“Parliamentary, government and legal texts”) of the OPTED project. A preview of the upcoming release of the ParlLAwSpeech dataset was also provided at the event held at the University of Vienna. OPTED’s website is available here: https://opted.eu/

On 26 June 2023, Rebeka Kiss attended the Tag der Parlamentsforschung – Day of Parliamentary Research conference organised by the Österreichisches Parlament in Vienna. The presentation entitled “Copy and paste explanatory notes? Text reuse approach with data from Hungary” gave insight into some preliminary empirical results related to her thesis.