Gábor Scheiring Last Update: 10 September 2016
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CURRENT POSITION 2015 -
Research Associate Department of Sociology University of Cambridge
PAST POSITIONS 2010-2014
Member of Parliament, Committee for Economic Affairs Hungarian National Assembly
2008-2010
Research fellow Institute for Political Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences (HAS-IPS)
2007-2008
Research fellow Protect the Future Association (Védegylet Egyesület, Budapest)
2003-2004
Campaigner Protect the Future Association (Védegylet Egyesület, Budapest)
EDUCATION 2009-2017 (expected)
PhD in Sociology Faculty of Human, Social, and Political Science, University of Cambridge Thesis title: The Wounds of Transition: The Political Economy of Mortality and Survival in Post-Socialist Hungary. Supervisor: Lawrence P. King.
2008-2009
PhD in Sociology and Social Anthropology Central European University, Budapest
2005-2007
MA in Economic Sociology Corvinus University of Budapest, Budapest
2004-2005
MA in Sociology and Social Anthropology Central European University, Budapest
1999-2002
BA in Economics Budapest Business School
OTHER POSITIONS 2014-
Chairman, Progressive Hungary Foundation (Megújuló Magyarországért Alap.)
2013-2014
Member of Board, Dialogue for Hungary Party (Párbeszéd Magyarországért)
2010-2013
Member of Board, Ecopolis Foundation (Ökopolisz Alapítvány)
2010-2013
Head of Economic Policy Cabinet, Politics can Be Deferent Party (LMP)
2010-2011
Member of Board, Politics Can be Different Party (LMP)
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SCHOLARSHIPS & AWARDS 2009-2012
Cambridge European Trust Scholarship
2009-2010
Cambridge Political Economy Society Trust Bursary
2008
Sasakawa Young Leaders Fellowship (SYLFF)
2006
Schumacher College, International Development Course Scholarship
2007
Post-Graduate Summer School Scholarship, CINEFOGO, Aberdeen University
2004-2005
Central European University Alumni Scholarship
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE 2014-
PRIVMORT: The Impact of Privatization on the Mortality Crisis in Eastern Europe (EU FP7-IDEAS-ERC), University of Cambridge, UK
2014-
Democracy and Capitalism in Post-Socialist Hungary, A research project at the Critical Social Theory Workshop, Institute for Political History, Hungary
2008
JUSTIS WP (EU FP7): Fear of Crime in Hungary and Europe, Institute for Political Science, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
2006-2007
Comparative Local Development: Cooperative Institutions in Divided Societies, Institute for Sociology and Social Policy, Budapest Corvinus University University of Trento
2006
Eulobby: Greens and European Public Policy, Institute for Political Science, Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
2006
Social Policy, Regulation, and Private Sector Water Supply: Hungary (UNRISD, Institute for Political Science, Hungarian Academy of Science)
TEACHING EXPERIENCE 2007-2008:
Ecopolitics: Green Political Thinking, College for Social Theory, Budapest Corvinus University
LANGUAGES English – fluent German – fluent Hungarian – native language SKILLS Computer skills: STATA, SPSS, NVIVO, Endnote, Excel, Power Point, Microsoft Project, Adobe Photoshop Management skills: Strategic communications, strategic planning, public speaking, political campaigns, organizational development FIELDS OF INTEREST Comparative Political Economy, Political Economy of Health, Democratization, Political Sociology, Public Policy, Development, Economic Transition REFEREES Lawrence King, Professor of Political Economy and Sociology, University of Cambridge Don Kalb, Professor, Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, Central European University Zsolt Boda, Vice Executive, Institute for Political Science, Hungarian Academy of Science
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CONFERENCE PAPERS AND LECTURES 8 September 2016
“Basic Income as a Transformative Strategy”, Paper Presented at the 7th Annual Conference in Political Economy, International Initiative for Promoting Political Economy, 7-9 September 2016, ISEG, Lisbon, Portugal.
25 May 2016
“25 Years after the Transition: The Economy and Politics in Central and Eastern Europe”, Lecture at the Business School, Central European University, Budapest.
9 May 2016
“Democracy in the Era of Liberal Finance”, Paper Presented at Financial Crises, Global Tax Evasion and Destructive Growth: Critique of Global Capitalism from Polányian Perspectives Roundtale, Budapest Corvinus University, Budapest.
27 August 2015
“The Political Economy of De-Democratization in Hungary”, Paper presented at the Session of the Critical Political Economy Network at the 12 th Conference of the European Sociological Association, 25-28 August 2015, Prague.
28 June 2008
“A new actor of global governance: The global justice movement” (in Hungarian), 17th Conference of the Hungarian Political Science Association, Eger-Noszvaj.
5 September 2007
“Barbarians at the Open Gates: Public Sociology and the Late Modern Turn”, 8th Conference of the European Sociological Association, Glasgow.
14 June 2007
“Privatization and the Politics of Policy” (in Hungarian), Institute for Political Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Young Scholars’ Conference, Budapest.
9 October 2006
“Eco-politics and the political anthropology of environmentalism in Hungary”, Lecture at the Social Movements Studies Group, University of North Carolina, Chapel-Hill.
JOURNAL ARTICLES Scheiring, Gábor, Darja Irdam and Lawrence King: “Social Determinants of the Post-Communist Mortality Crisis: A Systematic Review of the Cross-Country Evidence”, Submitted to Sociology of Health and Illness. Irdam, Dajra, Alexi Gugushvili, Aytalina Azarova, Mihaly Fazekas, Gabor Schering, Denes Stefler, Katarzyna Doniec, David Lane, Irina Kolesnikova, Vladimir Popov, Ivan Szelenyi, Michael Murphy, Martin McKee, Martin Bobak, Michael Marmot, Lawrence King (2016): “Mortality in Transition: Study Protocol of the PrivMort Project, a multilevel convenience cohort study”, BMC Public Health, (2016)16:672. Scheiring, Gábor (2016): “Sustaining Democracy in the Era of Dependent Financialization: Karl Polanyi’s Perspectives on the Politics of Finance”, Intersections: East European Journal of Society and Politics, 2(2): 84-103. Scheiring, Gábor (2007): “Barbarians at the Open Gates: Public Sociology and the Late Modern Turn, The American Sociologist 38(3): 294-308. Scheiring, Gábor (2006): “The Political Anthropology of Environmentalism: Framing Ecopolitics and Building Ideology in the Zengő-conflict (Hungary)”, Anthropolis 3(2): 6-19.
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BOOK CHAPTERS Irdam, Darja, Gabor Scheiring and Lawrence King (2016): “Mass Privatisation”, pp. 488-507 in Jens Hölscher and Horst Tomann (eds.), Palgrave Dictionary of Emerging Markets and Transition Economics. Basingstoke: Palgrave Mcmillan. Scheiring, Gábor, Bence Tordai and Miklós Sebők (2015): „Basic Income as a Realist’s Transformative Strategy”, pp. 103-116 in Conny Reuter (ed.), Progressive Structural Reforms: Proposals for European Reforms to Reduce Inequalities and Promote Jobs, Growth and Social Investment. Brussels: Solidar & Oficyna Wydawnicza Aspra. Papp, Gábor and Gábor Scheiring (2009): “Fear of Crime and Confidence in Justice in Hungary”, pp. 93115 in Anniina Jokinen, Elina Ruuskanen, Maria Yordanova, Dimitar Markov és Miriana Ilcheva (eds.), Review of Need: Indicators of Public Confidence in Criminal Justice for Policy Assessment. Helsinki: Criminal Justice Press. Boda, Zsolt, Gábor Scheiring, David Hall and Emanuel Lobina (2008): “Hungary”, pp. 178-202 in Naren Prasad (ed.), Social Policies and Private Sector Participation in Water Supply: Beyond Regulation. Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan. Boda, Zsolt and Gábor Scheiring (2006): “Privatization of Water in the Context of Transition”, pp. 95101 in Daniel Chávez (ed.), Public Services Yearbook,. Amsterdam, Montevideo: Transnational Institute. WORKING PAPERS Boda, Zsolt, Gábor Scheiring, Emanuele Lobina and David Hall (2006): Social Policies and Private Sector Participation in Water Supply – The Case of Hungary. Working Paper Prepared for the UNRISD project on Social Policy, Regulation and Private Sector Involvement in Water Supply. Geneva: UNRISD. BOOKS IN HUNGARIAN Scheiring, Gábor (2012): Hungary Back on Track: An Alternative Budget Proposal for Hungary (In Hungarian: Magyarország talpra áll: Az LMP alternatív költségvetési javaslata). Budapest: Ökopolisz Alapítvány. Scheiring, Gábor and Zsolt Boda (eds.) (2011): Globalization and Development: Critical Development Studies Reader (In Hungarian: Globalizáció és fejlődés: Kritikai fejlődéstanulmányok szöveggyűjtemény). Budapest: Új Mandátum. Scheiring, Gábor and Zsolt Boda (eds.) (2011): Globalization and Development at the Semi-Periphery (In Hungarian: Globalizáció és fejlődés a félperiférián). Budapest: Új Mandátum. Scheiring, Gábor and Benedek Jávor (eds.) (2009): Ecology and Politics: Green Political Theory Reader (In Hungarian: Oikosz és Polisz: Zöld Politikai Filozófiai Szöveggyűjtemény). Budapest: L’Harmattan. Scheiring, Gábor and Zsolt Boda (eds.) (2008): Economize Wisely! The Politics of Privatization and Public Services (In Hungarian: Gazdálkodj okosan! A privatizáció és a közszolgáltatások politikája). Budapest: Új Mandátum & Védegylet.
JOURNAL ARTICLES IN HUNGARIAN Boda, Zsolt and Gábor Scheiring (2010): “A Political Conceptualization of Public Services (In Hungarian: A közszolgáltatások politikai értelmezéséről)”, Politikatudományi Szemle [Hungarian Political Science Review], 19(3): 45-64.
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Scheiring, Gábor (2008): “After Seattle: The Global Justice Movement (In Hungarian: Seattle nyomában: A globalizációkritikai mozgalom)”, Politikatudományi Szemle [Hungarian Political Science Review], 17(3): 87-107. Scheiring, Gábor (2008): “Repoliticizing Environmentalism: The Dynamics of Ecopolitical Frames in the Zengő-conflict (In Hungarian: A környezetvédelem repolitizálódása: Ökopolitikai értelmezési keretek dinamikája a Zengő-mozgalomban)”, Szociológiai Szemle [Hungarian Review of Sociology], 2008(3):111-130. Scheiring, Gábor (2006): “Barbarians at the Open Gates: Public Sociology and the Late Modern Turn (In Hungarian: Barbárok a nyitott kapuk előtt. A közszociológia és a késő modern fordulat)”, Replika 2006(56-57): 217-228. Scheiring, Gábor, Zsolt Boda (2006): “Greens Influencing Public Policy in the European Union (In Hungarian: Zöld közpolitika-befolyásolás az Európai Unióban)”, Politikatudományi Szemle [Hungarian Political Science Review] XV(4): 41-74. Scheiring, Gábor (2003): “GATS and the Commodification of Services from the Perspective of Sustainability” (In Hungarian: ‘A GATS és a szolgáltatások piacosítása a fenntarthatóság mérlegén’), KKF Szakmai Füzetek, 2003(12): 19-36. Scheiring, Gábor (2003): “Public services and human rights” (In Hungarian: Közszolgálat és Emberi Jogok’), Fundamentum, 7(3–4): 207–208. Scheiring, Gábor (2002): “Globalization and the EU: Neoliberal policies in Europe from the perspective of sustainability” (In Hungarian: A globalizáció és az EU: a neoliberális politikák alkalmazása Európában és a fenntarthatóság’), EU Working Papers, V(2): 78-95.
BOOK CHAPTERS IN HUNGARIAN Scheiring, Gábor (2016): “The Discrete Charm of the National Bourgeoisie: The Political Economy of Democratic Backsliding in Hungary” (In Hungarian: ‘A nemzeti burzsoázia diszkrét bája: a demokrácia hanyatlásának politikai gazdaságtana’), pp. 11-45 in Holtpont: Társadalomkritikai tanulmányok Magyarország elmúlt 25 évéről. Budapest: Napvilág Kiadó Scheiring, Gábor (2015): “Karl Polanyi: The Great Transformation” (In Hungarian: ‘Polányi Károly: A nagy átalakulás’), in Miklós Sebők and Balázs Böcskei (ed.), 50 Books Every Leftwinger Has to Know (’50 Könyv Amit Minden Baloldalinak Ismernie Kell’). Budapest: Kossuth Kiadó. Scheiring, Gábor (2011): “Challenges of International Development Policy” (In Hungarian: ‘A nemzetközi fejlesztéspolitika helyzete és feladatai’), pp. 29-51 in Globalization and Development at the Semi-Periphery (In Hungarian: ‘Globalizáció és fejlődés a félperiférián: válság és alternatívák’). Budapest: Új Mandátum. Scheiring, Gábor (2011): “Wither Capitalism?” (In Hungarian: ‘Merre tovább kapitalizmus?’) pp. 52-84 in Globalization and Development at the Semi-Periphery (In Hungarian: ‘Globalizáció és fejlődés a félperiférián: válság és alternatívák’). Budapest: Új Mandátum. Scheiring, Gábor (2011): “The Politics of Public Goods and Development” (In Hungarian: ‘A közjavak és a fejlődés politikája’), in Globalization and Development at the Semi-Periphery (In Hungarian: ‘Globalizáció és fejlődés a félperiférián: válság és alternatívák’). Budapest: Új Mandátum. Scheiring, Gábor (2011): “After Seattle” (In Hungarian: ‘Seattle nyomában’), pp. 182-205 in Globalization and Development at the Semi-Periphery (In Hungarian: ‘Globalizáció és fejlődés a félperiférián: válság és alternatívák’). Budapest: Új Mandátum. Jávor, Benedek and Gábor Scheiring (2009): „Introduction: A Theory of Ecopolitics?” (In Hungarian: ‘Bevezetés: Elméletet az ökopolitikának?’)”, pp. 9-25 in Ecology and Politics: Green Political
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Theory Reader (In Hungarian: ‘Oikosz és polisz: zöld politikai filozófiai szöveggyűjtemény’). Budapest: L’Harmattan. Scheiring, Gábor and Zsolt Boda (2009): “Public Policy Influencing by Green Organizations in the European Union” (In Hungarian: ‘Környezetvédő szervezetek közpolitika befolyásoló tevékenysége az Európai Unióban’), in Governmental, Economic and Civic Interest Representation in the European Union (In Hungarian: ‘Kormányzati, gazdasági és civil érdekérvényesítés az Európai Unióban’), József Bayer and Ádám Kégler (eds.), Budapest: MTA-PTI. Scheiring, Gábor and Zsolt Boda (2008): “Introduction: The Politics of Public Services” (In Hungarian: ‘Bevezetés: A közszolgáltatások politikája’), pp. 8-19 in Economize Wisely! The Politics of Privatization and Public Services (In Hungarian: ‘Gazdálkodj okosan: A közszolgáltatások és a privatizáció politikája’), Gábor Scheiring and Boda Zsolt (eds.). Budapest: Új Mandátum. Scheiring, Gábor (2008): “Privatization: Theory, Practice and Politics (In Hungarian: Privatizáció: Elmélet, gyakorlat és politika)”, pp. 22-49 in Economize Wisely! The Politics of Privatization and Public Services (In Hungarian: Gazdálkodj okosan: A közszolgáltatások és a privatizáció politikája), Gábor Scheiring and Boda Zsolt (eds.). Budapest: Új Mandátum, Védegylet. Scheiring, Gábor (2008): “Sustainable Human Development or Neoliberalism” (In Hungarian: ‘Fenntartható human fejlődés neoliberalizmus helyett’), pp. 48-65 in Economize Wisely! The Politics of Privatization and Public Services (In Hungarian: ‘Gazdálkodj okosan: A közszolgáltatások és a privatizáció politikája’), Gábor Scheiring and Boda Zsolt (eds.). Budapest: Új Mandátum, Védegylet. Scheiring, Gábor (2008): “Beyond Public Service: GATS” (In Hungarian: ‘A közszolgáltatások után: GATS’), pp. 68-87 in Economize Wisely! The Politics of Privatization and Public Services (In Hungarian: ‘Gazdálkodj okosan: A közszolgáltatások és a privatizáció politikája’), Gábor Scheiring and Boda Zsolt (eds.). Budapest: Új Mandátum, Védegylet. Boda, Zsolt and Gábor Scheiring (2008): “On the Political Economy of Water Privatization” (In Hungarian: ‘A vízprivatizáció politikai gazdaságtanáról’), pp. 169-196 in Economize Wisely! The Politics of Privatization and Public Services (In Hungarian: ‘Gazdálkodj okosan: A közszolgáltatások és a privatizáció politikája’), Gábor Scheiring and Boda Zsolt (eds.). Budapest: Új Mandátum, Védegylet. Scheiring, Gábor (2007): "Privatization and the politics of public policy: the need for a new policy science” (‘A privatizáció és a közpolitikák politikája: egy új policy tudomány szüksége’), pp. 4-16 in Zs. Boda, I. Kovách and Gy. Szoboszlai (eds.): Power, Public Discourse and Development (‘Hatalom, közbeszéd, fejlesztéspolitika’). Budapest: MTA-PTI Scheiring, Gábor (2003): “A study about the neoliberal development model from the perspective of sustainability” (In Hungarian: ‘Értekezés a neoliberális gazdaságfejlődési modellről a fenntarthatóság szempontjából’, pp. 142-153 In: P. Majoros (Ed.): Budapest Business School Academic Yearbook (‘Budapesti Gazdasági Főiskola Tudományos Évkönyv’) 2002. Budapest: BGF.
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