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Curriculum Vitae

Gábor Tóka

Last update: 2 July 2011

Current position

December 2008-: Professor, Department of Political Science, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary

September 2010 -: Academic Director, School of Public Policy and International Affairs, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary

Degrees

Ph.D. in Sociology (summa cum laude, ELTE, Budapest)

University degree (equivalent to an MA) in Sociology (ELTE, Budapest)

University degree (equivalent to an MA) in History (ELTE, Budapest)

Previous academic career

October 2006-September 2008: Marie Curie Fellow in the Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford, United Kingdom

July-September 1996, May-July 1997: guest researcher at the Mannheim Centre for European Social Research, University of Mannheim, Germany

June 1992-: full-time faculty member in the Department of Political Science, Central European University, Budapest. (1992-1995: lecturer; 1995 till March 2003: assistant professor; March 2003-December 2008: associate professor; 2000-2003: director of doctoral studies; 2003-2006: head of department; 2006-2009: on leave)

September 1989-August 1993: research staff, TÁRKI (Social Research Informatics Center), Budapest. (Part-time assistant till January 1991 and research fellow thereafter)

Research interest

Voting behavior and political attitude formation, especially in a comparative perspective and with respect to the impact of national institutions and political knowledge; simulation of information effects on collective preferences

Awards, scholarships

March 2007-: Associate Member of Nuffield College, Oxford, United Kingdom

December 2008: István Bibó Prize for outstanding lifetime achievements by the Hungarian Political Science Association

September 2008-August 2009: Karamanlis Fellowship, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, Florence, Italy

May 2008: Recipient of the Best Paper in Political Communication Prize at the annual meeting of the International Communication Association

October 2006-September 2008: Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship under the TMR Program of the European Union at the University of Oxford, contract no. 025384

January-June 2005: International Policy Fellow at the Center for Policy Studies, Central European University, Budapest, hosted by the University of Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, and by the Juan March Institute, Madrid, Spain

July-August 2001: visiting scholar at the British Library of Political and Economic Sciences, London, United Kingdom

March-April 2001: visiting scholar at the Centre for Russian and East European Studies, University of Toronto, Ontario

June-September 1999: visiting scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars at Washington, D.C.

September-December 1998: visiting fellow at the Helen Kellogg Institute for International Studies at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana

September 1992-June 1993: Soros/Foreign and Commonwealth Office Scholar, Nuffield College, Oxford

March 1992: Young Scholar Award of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences for outstanding scholarly contribution

Current research projects

Citizens and the European Polity: Mass Attitudes Towards the European and National Polities. Collective book ed. by David Sanders, Pedro Magalhães, and Gábor Tóka, under contract to Oxford University Press.

2008-2012: Participant and Steering Committee member in the “Providing an Infrastructure for Research on Electoral Democracy in the European Union” FP7 Integrated Project (http://www.piredeu.eu)

2009-2012: Senior staff member in the ELECDEM Marie Curie Initial Training Network (http://huss.exeter.ac.uk/politics/elecdem/)

2006-: National collaborator in Hungary for the Comparative National Election Study Project (http://www.cnep.ics.ul.pt)

Peer reviewer

American Political Science Review since 2007; British Journal of Political Science since 1999; the Economic and Social Research Council of the United Kingdom in 2008; Electoral Studies since 2000; the European Science Foundation since 2001; European Union Politics since 2003; the Grant Agency of the Czech Republic since 2001; International Journal of Public Opinion Research since 2008; Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties in 2007; the Hungarian Accreditation Agency (MAB) in 2006; the Hungarian National Science Foundation (OTKA) since 1998; Party Politics since 2001; Political Behavior since 2009; Political Communication since 2010; Politikatudományi Szemle (the scholarly journal of the Hungarian Political Science Association) since 1993; Public Choice since 2011; Social Science Quarterly in 2000

Editorial board memberships

2003-: European Union Politics (http://eup.sagepub.com)

2000-: Electoral Studies (www.elsevier.com/locate/electstud)

1998-: Politikatudományi Szemle (the journal of the Hungarian Political Science Association, http://www.poltudszemle.hu)

Other current board memberships

2011-: Acta Politica (journal of the Duch Political Science Association, http://www.palgrave-journals.com/ap/index.html); member of the International Advisory Board

2011-: Swiss Political Science Review (journal of the Swiss Political Science Association, http://www.spsr.ch/); member of the International Advisory Board

2011-: Hungarian Consortium for Election Studies (http://www.valasztaskutatas.hu); co-chair

2010-: European Election Studies Association; Board member

2009-: Standing Group on Public Opinion and Voting Behaviour in a Comparative Perspective, European Consortium for Political Research (http://povb-ecpr.org/); Steering Committee member

2009-: Hungarian Political Science Association (http://mptt.hu/); member of the Presidium

2006-: Median Research Centre, Bucharest, Romania; Board member

PhD and MPhil supervision

PhD successfully defended: Gábor Soós (2005), Tania Gosselin (2006), Andrija Henjak (2009), Aitalina Azarova (2010)

PhD research in progress: Diana Burlacu, Oana Lup, Sebastian Popa, Daniela Sirinic, Paul Weith

MPhil successfully defended: Bogdan Nica (1998), Alan Renwick (1998) Aida Paskeviciute (2000)

Publications

Books

Bellucci, Paolo, David Sanders, Gábor Tóka and Mariano Torcal, eds. Forthcoming. The Europeanization of National Polities? Citizenship and Support in a Post-Enlargement Union. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Linek, Lukás, Jan Outly, Gábor Tóka, and Ágnes Bátory. eds. 2007. Volby do Evropského Parlamentu 2004 (The 2004 Elections to the European Parliament). Prague: SOÚ-FHS. (In Czech.)

Tóka, Gábor, and Ágnes Bátory. eds. 2006. A 2004. évi európai parlamenti választások: Pártok és szavazói magatartás nemzetközi összehasonlításban (The 2004 Elections to the European Parliament: Parties and Voting Behavior in Cross-National Comparison). Budapest: DKMKA, Századvég Kiadó, Budapesti Corvinus Egyetem Politikatudományi Intézet, 312 pages. ISBN 963 7340 20 3. (In Hungarian.)

Soós, Gábor, Gábor Tóka and Glen Wright. eds. 2002. State of Local Democracy in Central Europe, 2002. Budapest: Local Government Initiative, 496 pages.

Tóka, Gábor. 2000. Inventory of Political Attitude and Behaviour Surveys in East Central Europe and the former Soviet Union 1989-97. Bergisch Gladbach: Edwin Ferger Verlag, 464 pages (Reihe Wissenschaft Band 10, ISBN 3-931219-12-7, see at http://www.e-ferger-verlag.de/allbooks.htm).

Kitschelt, Herbert, Zdenka Mansfeldova, Radoslaw Markowski and Gábor Tóka. 1999. Post-Communist Party Systems: Competition, Representation, and Inter-Party Cooperation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 472 pages.

Tóka, Gábor, and Zsolt Enyedi eds. 1999. Elections to the Hungarian National Assembly 1994. Berlin: Sigma, 318 pages.

Tóka, Gábor ed. 1995. The 1990 Elections to the Hungarian National Assembly. Berlin: Sigma, 198 pages.

Refereed international journal articles

Tóka, Gábor, and Tania Gosselin, 2010. “Persistent Political Divides, Electoral Volatility and Citizen Involvement: The Freezing Hypotheses in the 2004 European Election.” West European Politics 33 (3): 608-633.

Brug, Wouter van der, Mark Franklin, and Gábor Tóka, 2008. “One Electorate or Many? Voting Behavior in New and Established Democracies in Europe.” Electoral Studies 27 (4): 589-600.

Tóka, Gábor, 2008. “Citizen Information, Election Outcomes and Good Governance.” Electoral Studies 27 (1): 31-44.

Tóka, Gábor, and Marina Popescu, 2007. “Inequalities of Political Influence in New Democracies.” International Journal of Sociology 37 (4): 67-93.

Tóka, Gábor. 2004. “Can Voters be Equal? A Cross-National Analysis. Part 2.” The Review of Sociology 10 (1): 47-65.

Tóka, Gábor. 2003. “Can Voters be Equal? A Cross-National Analysis. Part 1.” The Review of Sociology 9 (2): 51-72.

Tóka, Gábor. 1998. "Party Appeals and Voter Loyalty in New Democracies." Political Studies 46: 589-610.

Tóka, Gábor, and Jaap Dronkers. 1996. "Sibling Resemblance in Education Attainment, Occupation Prestige, and Wealth in Hungary during the Communist Regime." European Sociological Review 12 (December 1996): 251-70.

Other scholarly publications

Tóka, Gábor, Andrija Henjak, and Radoslaw Markowski. “Explaining EU Support.” Forthcoming in The Europeanization of National Polities? Citizenship and Support in a Post-Enlargement Union, ed. by Paolo Bellucci, David Sanders, Gábor Tóka and Mariano Torcal. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Sanders, David, Paolo Bellucci, and Gábor Tóka. “Dimensions of EU Citizenship.” Forthcoming in The Europeanization of National Polities? Citizenship and Support in a Post-Enlargement Union, ed. by Paolo Bellucci, David Sanders, Gábor Tóka and Mariano Torcal. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Sanders, David, Paolo Bellucci, and Gábor Tóka. “A Combined Model.” Forthcoming in The Europeanization of National Polities? Citizenship and Support in a Post-Enlargement Union, ed. by Paolo Bellucci, David Sanders, Gábor Tóka and Mariano Torcal. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Tóka, Gábor, and Tania Gosselin, 2010. “Freezing? The Impact of Structural vs. Value Cleavages on the Stabilization of Party Systems.” In The Structure of Political Competition in Western Europe, ed. by Zsolt Enyedi and Kevin Deegan-Krause. London: Routledge.

Tóka, Gábor, 2010. “The Impact of Everyday Political Talk on Political Knowledge and Voting Correctly.” In The Role of Political Discussion in Modern Democracies in a Comparative Perspective, ed. by Ken’ichi Ikeda, Laura Morales and Michael Wolf. London: Routledge, pp. 129-144.

Tóka, Gábor, and Marina Popescu, 2009. “Public Television, Private Television and Citizens’ Political Knowledge.” EUI Working paper series, RSCAS 2009/66. Florence: European University Institute, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies.

Brug, Wouter van der, Mark Franklin, Marina Popescu and Gábor Tóka, 2009. “Towards a European Electorate. One Electorate or Many?” in The Legitimacy of the European Union After Enlargement, ed. by Jacques Thomassen. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 66-93.

Tóka, Gábor. 2009. "A jó kormányzat, az ismeretgazdag választóközönség, és a tömegtájékoztatási rendszer összefüggései nemzetközi összehasonlításban (Good Governance, Informed Electorate, and the System of Mass Communication in Comparative Perspective)." Politikatudományi Szemle 18 (2): 7–24. (In Hungarian.)

Tóka, Gábor, 2009. "Expressive vs. Instrumental Motivation of Turnout, Partisanship and Political Learning." in The Comparative Study of Electoral Systems, ed. by Hans-Dieter Klingemann. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 269-288.

Popescu, Marina, and Gábor Tóka, 2008. "Districting in Eastern Europe: Regulations and Practices." in Redistricting in Comparative Perspective, ed. by Bernard Grofman and Lisa Handley. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Enyedi, Zsolt, and Gábor Tóka. 2007. "The Only Game in Town: Party Politics in Hungary." in Party Politics in New Democracies, ed. by Paul Webb and Stephen White. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 147-178.

Tóka, Gábor, and Andrija Henjak. 2007. "Party Systems and Voting Behaviour in the Visegrad Countries 15 Years After the Transition.” in Visegrad Votes: Parliamentary Elections 2005-2006, ed. by Pavel Šaradín and Eva Bradová. Olomouc: Palacky University Press, pp. 210-244.

Tóka, Gábor. 2007. "Information Effects on Vote Choices in European Elections.” in European Elections After Eastern Enlargement, ed. by Michael Marsh, Slava Mikhaylov and Hermann Schmitt. Mannheim: MZES, pp. 141-179.

Tóka, Gábor. 2006. "Elections and Representation.” in Developments in European Politics, ed. by Paul Heywood, Erik Jones, Martin Rhodes and Ulrich Sedelmeier. London: Palgrave-Macmillan, pp. 117-135.

Tóka, Gábor. 2006. "Vezérek csodálói: a magyar választói magatartás nemzetközi összehasonlításban (Leaders’ Admirers: Hungarian Voting Behavior in Cross-national Comparison)." in Parlamenti választás 2006: Elemzések és adatok (Parliamentary Elections 2006: Analyses and Data), ed. by Gergely Karácsony. Budapest: DKMKA. (In Hungarian.)

Fölsz, Attila, and Gábor Tóka. 2006. “Determinants of Support for EU-membership in Hungary.” in Public Opinion, Party Competition and the European Union in Eastern Europe, ed. by Robert Rohrschneider and Stephen Whitefield. London: Palgrave-Macmillan, pp. 145-164.

Brug, Wouter van der, Mark Franklin, and Gábor Tóka. 2006. “Egységes vagy nemzetekre tagolt választóközönség? Szavazói magatartás Európa új és régebbi demokráciáiban (One Electorate or Many? Voting Behavior in New and Established Democracies in Europe).” in A 2004. évi európai parlamenti választások: Pártok és szavazói magatartás nemzetközi összehasonlításban (The 2004 Elections to the European Parliament: Parties and Voting Behavior in Cross-National Comparison), ed. by Gábor Tóka and Ágnes Bátory. Budapest: DKMKA, Századvég, Budapesti Corvinus Egyetem Politikatudományi Intézet, pp. 273-291. (In Hungarian.)

Tóka, Gábor. 2005. “East-West Value Differences in the European Union and the Legacy of Communism.” Working paper 49/2005. Madrid: Universidad Autonoma Madrid, Dept. of Political Science and International Relations. URL:

Tóka, Gábor. 2005. "A magyarországi politikai tagoltság nemzetközi összehasonlításban (Electoral Alignments in Hungary in a Cross-National Comparison)." in Törések, hálók, hidak: Választói magatartás és politikai tagolódás Magyarországon (Cleavages, Nets, and Bridges: Voting Behavior and the Political Process in Hungary), ed. by Róbert Angelusz and Róbert Tardos. Budapest: DKMKA, pp. 17-64. (In Hungarian.)

Tóka, Gábor. 2005. "A törésvonalak, a pártok és az intézményrendszer (Cleavages, Parties, and Institutional Design)." in Törések, hálók, hidak: Választói magatartás és politikai tagolódás Magyarországon (Cleavages, Nets, and Bridges: Voting Behavior and the Political Process in Hungary), szerk. Angelusz Róbert és Tardos Róbert. Budapest: DKMKA, pp. 243-322. (In Hungarian.)

Tóka, Gábor. 2004. "Hungary." in Handbook of Political Change in Eastern Europe, 2^nd revised and updated edition, ed. by Sten Berglund, Joakim Ekman, and Frank H. Aarebrot. Cheltenham: Edgar Elgar, pp. 289-336.

Tóka, Gábor. 2003. "Pártimázsok Magyarországon, 1992-2002 (Party Images in Hungary, 1992-2002)." in Magyarország politikai évkönyve - Political Yearbook of Hungary 2003, ed. by Sándor Kurtán, Péter Sándor, and László Vass. Budapest: DKMKA, pp. 1540-58. (In Hungarian.)

Tóka, Gábor. 2003. “Szavazói magatartás (Voting Behaviour).” in Politika és politikatudomány (Politics and Political Science), ed. by Sándor Gallai and Gábor Török. Budapest: Aula, pp. 457-77. (In Hungarian.)

Tóka, Gábor. 2002. “Ekonomické hlasovanie: prehl’ad literatúry (Economic Voting: A Review).” in Eugen Jurzyca et al., Verejná mienka a ekonomické reformy (Public Opinion and Economic Reform). Bratislava: INEKO, pp. 66-73. (In Slovak.)

Tóka, Gábor. 2002. "Voter Inequality, Turnout and Information Effects in a Cross-National Perspective." Helen Kellogg Institute Working Paper Series No. 297. Notre Dame, IN: The Helen Kellogg Institute for International Studies at the University of Notre Dame.

Popescu, Marina, and Gábor Tóka. 2002. "Campaign Effects and Media Monopoly: The 1994 and 1998 Parliamentary Elections in Hungary." in Do Political Campaigns Matter? Campaign Effects in Elections and Referendums, ed. by David M. Farrell and Rüdiger Schmitt-Beck. London: Routledge, pp. 58-75.

Tóka, Gábor, and Marina Popescu. 2002. "Befolyásolja-e a szavazókat a Magyar Televízió kormánypárti propagandája? Egy empírikus kutatás 1994-98-ból (Does the Pro-Government Propaganda on the Hungarian Television Influence the Voters? An Empirical Study from 1994-98).” Médiakutató 6: 21-38. (In Hungarian.)

Tóka, Gábor. 2002. "Választási közvélemény-kutatások és előrejelzések 1998-ban (Election Polls and Forecasts in 1998).” Marketing és Menedzsment 36 (1): 27-39. (In Hungarian.)

Tóka, Gábor. 2002. “Issue Voting and Party Systems in Central and Eastern Europe.” in Bürger und Demokratie in Ost und West. Studien zur politischen Kultur und zum politischen Prozess - Citizens and Democracy in East and West. Studies in Political Culture and the Political Process, ed. by Dieter Fuchs, Edeltraud Roller, and Bernhard Wessels. Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag, pp. 169-85.

Tóka, Gábor. 2001. “A szavazói magatartás kutatása (Electoral Behaviour Research).” Politikatudományi Szemle 10 (3): 105-30. (In Hungarian.)

Enyedi, Zsolt, and Gábor Tóka. 2001. "Moć slabih: Političke stranke u Mađarskoj (The Power of the Weak: Political Parties in Hungary).” Politicka Misao 32 (5): 68-90. (In Croatian.)

Karácsony, Gergely, and Gábor Tóka. 2001. "The Electorate, 1990-1998." in Hungary: Government and Politics 1848-2000, ed. by Mária Ormos and Béla K. Király. Boulder, CO: Social Science Monographs, pp. 495-518.

Tóka, Gábor. 2000. "Politikai ismeretszint és választói magatartás: Magyarországon nemzetközi összehasonlításban (Political Knowledge and Voting Behaviour: Hungary in Cross-National Comparison)." in Társadalmi Riport 2000 (Social Report 2000), ed. by Tamás Kolosi, István György Tóth, and György Vukovich. Budapest: TÁRKI, pp. 573-90. (In Hungarian.)

Karácsony, Gergely, Gábor Tóka, László Beck, Endre Hann and Tímea Venczel. 2000. "A politikai közvélemény a Medián kutatásainak tükrében (Public Opinion in the Mirror of Medián Polls)." in Magyarország politikai évkönyve - Political Yearbook of Hungary 2000, ed. by Sándor Kurtán, Péter Sándor, and László Vass. Budapest: DKMKA, pp. 710-35. (In Hungarian.)

Tóka, Gábor. 2000. "Electoral Research in Hungary." in Elections in Central and Eastern Europe, ed. by Hans-Dieter Klingemann, Ekkehard Mochmann, and Kenneth Newton. Berlin: Sigma, pp. 71-104.

Tóka, Gábor. 1999. "Parties and Social Divisions: A Common East Central European Pattern?" in A Society Transformed? Hungary in Time-Space Perspective, ed. by Rudolf Andorka, Tamás Kolosi, Richard Rose and György Vukovich. Budapest: Central European University Press, pp. 155-78.

Tóka, Gábor. 1999. "Választási közvélemény-kutatások Magyarországon, 1990-98 (Election Polls in Hungary, 1990-98)." in Magyarország politikai évkönyve - Political Yearbook of Hungary 1999, ed. by Sándor Kurtán, Péter Sándor, and László Vass. Budapest: DKMKA, pp. 706-27. (In Hungarian.)

Tóka, Gábor. 1999. "Voting Behaviour." in Social Report 1998, ed. by Tamás Kolosi, István György Tóth, and György Vukovich. Budapest: TÁRKI, pp. 389-408.

Csepeli György, Dessewffy Tibor, Dulovics Dezső és Tóka Gábor. 1999. "Menekültek és elméletek. Az 1956-os forradalom után Nyugatra menekültek attitűdjeinek befejezetlen vizsgálata az Amerikai Egyesült Államokban (Refugees and Theories: The Unfinished Study of the Attitudes of Refugees from Hungary After the 1956 Revolution in the United States)." In: 1956-os intézet - Évkönyv 1998 (1998 Annals of the 1956 Institute). Budapest: 1956-os intézet, pp. 253-286. (In Hungarian.)

Tóka, Gábor. 1998. "Party Appeals and Voter Loyalty in New Democracies." in Parties and Democracy, ed. by Richard Hofferbert. Oxford: Blackwell, pp. 167-88.

Tóka, Gábor. 1998. "Party Positions." in Comparative Politics: The Problem of Equivalence, ed. by Jan W. van Deth. London: Routledge, pp. 180-204.

Tóka, Gábor. 1998. "Hungary." in Handbook of Political Change in Eastern Europe, ed. by Sten Berglund, Tomas Hellén and Frank H. Aarebrot. Cheltenham: Edgar Elgar, pp. 231-74.

Renwick, Alan, and Gábor Tóka. 1998. "East Meets West." in International Social Attitudes: The 15th British Social Attitudes Report, ed. by Roger Jowell et al. Aldershot: Dartmouth, pp. 149-71.

Tóka, Gábor. 1998. "Választási közvélemény-kutatások és előrejelzések 1998-ban (Election Polls and Forecasts in 1998)." in Jelentések könyve (Report Book), ed. by Éva Argejó. Budapest: Új Mandátum. (In Hungarian.)

Tóka, Gábor. 1998. "Választási közvélemény-kutatások és előrejelzések 1998-ban (Election Polls and Forecasts in 1998)." Jel-Kép 1998 19 (4): 53-76. (In Hungarian.)

Tóka, Gábor. 1998. "A pártpreferenciák stabilitásának meghatározói (Determinants of the Stability of Party Preferences)." Századvég 9: 3-26. (In Hungarian.)

Tóka, Gábor. 1998. "Választói magatartás (Electoral Behaviour)." in Társadalmi Riport 1998 (Social Report 1998), ed. by Tamás Kolosi, István György Tóth, and György Vukovich. Budapest: TÁRKI, pp. 391-411. (In Hungarian.)

Tóka, Gábor. 1997. "Political Parties in East Central Europe." in Consolidating the Third Wave Democracies: Themes and Perspectives, ed. by Larry Diamond, Marc F. Plattner, Yun-han Chu, and Hung-mao Tien. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 93-134.

Tóka, Gábor. 1997. "Political Parties and Democratic Consolidation in East Central Europe." Studies in Public Policy No. 279. Glasgow: Centre for the Study of Public Policy, University of Strathclyde.

Tóka, Gábor. 1997. "Társadalmi egyenlőség a választói viselkedésben (Social Equality in Electoral Behaviour)." Politikatudományi Szemle 6 (2): 33-46. (In Hungarian.)

Tóka, Gábor. 1997. "Strany a volby ve stredni a vychodni Evrope (Parties and Elections in Central and Eastern Europe)." Sociologicky casopis 33 (1): 5-26. (In Czech.)

Tóka, Gábor. 1996. "Koalicní preference ve stredni a vychodní Evrope (Coalition Preferences in Eastern and Central Europe)." Politologická revue 2 (prosinec 1996), pp. 71-86. (In Czech.)

Tóka, Gábor. 1996. "Parties and Electoral Choices in East Central Europe." in Stabilising Fragile Democracies, ed. by Paul Lewis and Geoffrey Pridham. London: Routledge, pp. 100-25.

Tóka, Gábor. 1995. "Parties and Elections in Hungary in 1990 and 1994." in Lawful Revolution in Hungary 1989-94, ed. by Béla K. Király and András Bozóki. Highland Lakes, NJ: Atlantic Research and Publications, Inc. and Boulder, CO: Social Science Monographs, pp. 131-58.

Tóka, Gábor. 1995. "Being Represented - Being Satisfied? Political Support in East Central Europe." in Citizens and the State, ed. by Hans-Dieter Klingemann and Dieter Fuchs. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 354-82.

Markowski, Radoslaw, and Gábor Tóka. 1995. "Zwrot na lewo w Polsce i na Wegrzech piec lat po upkadu komunizmu (Shift to the Left in Poland and Hungary Five Years After the End of Communism)." in Wybory parlamentarne 1991 i 1993, pod redakcja Stanislawa Gebethnera. Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Sejmowe, pp. 193-218. (In Polish.)

Markowski, Radoslaw, and Gábor Tóka. 1995. "Left Turn in Hungary and Poland Five Years After the Collapse of Communism." Sisyphus: Social Studies 1 (IX 1993): 75-100.

Tóka, Gábor. 1995. "Seats and Votes: Consequences of the Hungarian Election Law." in The 1990 Elections to the Hungarian National Assembly, ed. by Gábor Tóka. Berlin: Sigma, pp. 41-66.

Tóka, Gábor. 1995. "A Short History of the Hungarian Parties of the Transition." in The 1990 Elections to the Hungarian National Assembly, ed. by Gábor Tóka. Berlin: Sigma, pp. 32-40.

Tóka, Gábor. 1995. "Voting Behavior in 1990." in The 1990 Elections to the Hungarian National Assembly, ed. by Gábor Tóka. Berlin: Sigma, pp. 84-123.

Tóka, Gábor. 1994. "Pártok és választóik 1990-ben és 1994-ben (Parties and Voters in 1990 and 1994)." in Társadalmi Riport 1994 (Social Report 1994), ed. by Rudolf Andorka, Tamás Kolosi, and György Vukovich. Budapest: TÁRKI, pp. 359-75. (In Hungarian.)

Tóka, Gábor. 1994. "Who Is Satisfied with Democracy?" in Democratic Legitimacy in Postcommunist Countries, ed. by András Bozóki. Budapest: T-Twins, pp. 231-55.

Tóka, Gábor. 1994. "Bal és jobb: Miért alkalmazható? (Left and Right: Why Can They Be Used?)" Politikatudományi Szemle 3 (3): 135-45. (In Hungarian.)

Heath, Anthony, Bridget Taylor, and Gábor Tóka. 1993. "Religion, Morality and Politics." in International Social Attitudes: The 10th British Social Attitudes Report, ed. by Roger Jowell, Lindsay Brook, and Lizanne Dowds with Daphne Arendt. Aldershot: Dartmouth, pp. 49-80.

Heath, Anthony, Bridget Taylor, and Gábor Tóka. 1993. "Religion, Morality and Politics." CREST Working Paper Series No. 22. Oxford, Strathclyde: CREST. URL: www.crest.ox.ac.uk/p22.htm.

Tóka, Gábor. 1993. "Changing Dimensions of Party Competition: Hungary 1990-1991." in The Political Cultures of Eastern Central Europe in Transition, ed. by Gerd Meyer. Tübingen and Basel: Francke Verlag, pp. 165-228.

Tóka, Gábor. 1992. "A kakukk fészke. Pártrendszer és törésvonalak Magyarországon (The Cuckoo's Nest. Party System and Social Cleavages in Hungary)." Politikatudományi Szemle 1 (2): 123-59. (In Hungarian.)

Tóka, Gábor. 1992. "The Impact of the Religion Issue on Electoral Preferences in Hungary 1990-1991." in Wahlen in Zeiten des Umbruchs, ed. by Oscar W. Gabriel and Klaus G. Troitzsch. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, pp. 331-77.

Tóka, Gábor. 1992. "A kelet-közép-európai pártrendszerek oldalnézetből (The East Central European Party Systems)." in Társadalmi Riport 1992 (Social Report 1992), ed. by Rudolf Andorka, Tamás Kolosi, and György Vukovich. Budapest: TÁRKI, pp. 359-75. (In Hungarian.)

Kolosi, Tamás, Róbert Kovács, and Gábor Tóka. 1992. "Social and Political Characteristics of Voters." in Social Report 1990, ed. by Rudolf Andorka, Tamás Kolosi, and György Vukovich. Budapest: TÁRKI, pp. 405-17.

Szántó, János, and Gábor Tóka. 1992. "Inequalities of Material Living Conditions." in Social Report 1990, ed. by Rudolf Andorka, Tamás Kolosi, and György Vukovich. Budapest: TÁRKI, pp. 285-95.

Tóka, Gábor. 1991. "Választási eredmények elemzése (An Ecological Analysis of Election Results)." in Hol tart a szabad gondolat? (What Has the Idea of Freedom Achieved?), ed. by András Gyekiczki. Budapest: Politikai Tanulmányok Intézete, pp. 165-92. (In Hungarian.)

Conference papers

[with Marina Popescu] “How Do Media Systems Influence Citizens’ Political Knowledge and the Social Inequalities of Knowledge?“ Paper to be presented at the American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA, 1-4 September 2011.

[with Andrija Henjak and Marina Popescu] “Linkages Between Parties and Voters in Comparative Perspective:Understanding How and Why Political System Characteristics Mediate Voting Behavior Cross-nationally “ Paper to be presented at the American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA, 1-4 September 2011.

[with Frances Millard and Marina Popescu] “Should Women Push for Fewer Women Candidates? Preference Voting Systems and Gender Representation.“ Paper to be presented at the American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA, 1-4 September 2011.

[with Frances Millard and Marina Popescu] “Should Women Push for Fewer Women Candidates? Preference Voting Systems and Gender Representation.“ Paper presented at the 61^st Political Studies Association Annual Conference, London, UK, 19-21 April 2011.

[with Diana Burlacu] “Party-Voter Linkages and the Type of Democracy: Do Majoritarian Institutions Dampen the Ideological Vote?” Paper prepared for presentation at the 69th Midwest Political Science Association annual meeting, March 31-April 3, 2011, Chicago, IL.

[with Diana Burlacu] “Prospective Proximity-based Voting and the Type of Democracy.” Paper prepared for presentation at the conference on Elections and Representative Democracy: Representation and Accountability at the University of Twente, the Netherlands, 11-14 November 2010.

[with Diana Burlacu] “Prospective Proximity-based Voting and the Type of Democracy.” Paper prepared for presentation at the 68th Midwest Political Science Association annual meeting, April 22 - 25, 2010, Chicago, IL.

[with Marina Popescu and Sebastian Popa] “The Influence of Democratic Institutions on the Impact of Political Sophistication.” Paper presented at the Joint Session of Workshops of the European Consortium for Political Research, Munster, Germany, 22-26 March 2010.

[with Tania Gosselin] "Persistent Political Divides, Electoral Volatility and Citizen Involvement Across EU Member States: Testing the Freezing Hypotheses in the 2004 European Election." Paper presented at the General Conference of the European Consortium for Political Research, Potsdam, Germany, 10-13 September 2009.

[with Andrija Henjak] "Institutional Design and Voting Behavior in East Central Europe: A Cross-National Comparison of the Impact of Leaders, Partisanship, Performance Evaluations and Ideology on the Vote." Paper presented at the 21st World Congress of the International Political Science Association, Santiago, Chile, 12-16 July 2009.

“Socio-economic Divides in the Shadow of Cultural Opposition: Hungary, 1990-2006.” Paper prepared for presentation at the How Social Divisions Explain Political Choices workshop of the EQUALSOC FP6 Network of Excellence, Oxford, UK, 22-23 May 2009.

[with Marina Popescu] “Public Television, Private Television and Citizens’ Political Knowledge.” Paper presented at the mini-conference on Party Competition: New Insights and Approaches at the European University Institute, Florence, 15 May 2009.

[with Marina Popescu] “Public Television, Private Television and Citizens’ Political Knowledge.” Paper prepared for presentation at the 2009 EPCR Joint Sessions of Workshops in Lisbon, Portugal, 15-19 April 2009.

“Electoral Responses to Changes in Choice Alternatives in Hungary, 1990-2006.” Presentation at the How Social Divisions Explain Political Choices workshop of the EQUALSOC FP6 Network of Excellence, Oxford, UK, 17-19 September 2008.

“The Impact of Everyday Political Talk on Involvement, Knowledge and Informed Voting.” Paper prepared for presentation at the EPOP (Elections, Public Opinion and Political Parties) annual conference, Manchester, UK, 12-14 September 2008.

“The Impact of Equal Turnout on the Policy Position of the Average Electoral Party.” Paper prepared for presentation at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Boston, MA, 28-31 August 2008.

“The Impact of Everyday Political Talk on Political Knowledge and Voting Correctly.” Paper prepared for presentation at the annual meeting of the International Society of Political Psychology at Sciences Po in Paris, France, 9-12 July 2008.

[with Tania Gosselin] “The Impact of Cleavages on Political Participation and Electoral Volatility.” Paper prepared for presentation at the annual meeting of the Canadian Political Science Association, Vancouver, British Columbia, 4-6 June 2008.

[with Marina Popescu] “The Impact of Media and Party Systems on the Making of Informed Election Outcomes.” Paper prepared for presentation at the annual meeting of the Canadian Political Science Association, Vancouver, British Columbia, 4-6 June 2008. Winner of the Best Paper in Political Communication Award.

[with Marina Popescu] “The Impact of Media Systems on the Making of Informed Election Outcomes.” Paper prepared for presentation at the 58th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association, Montreal, Quebec, 22-26 May 2008.

[with Andrija Henjak] “EU Policies and Support for European Integration, 1990-2004.“ Paper prepared for presentation at the IntUne working group meeting at the University of Granada, Spain, 9-11 May 2008.

“The Impact of Full Turnout on the Policy Position of the Median Voter and on the Gap between Observed and Fully Informed Election Outcomes.” Paper prepared for presentation at the Comparative Study of Electoral Systems conference at the Warsaw School of Social Psychology, Poland, 24-26 April 2008.

“Simulating Informed Preferences: Mindgame or Useful Analytical Tool?” Presentation at the workshop on Estimating Fully Informed Behaviour at the Centre for Research Methods in the Social Sciences, Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford, 14 March 2008.

[with Patricia Noonan Walsh] “Civic Participation and People with Disabilities.” Presentation at the conference on People and Parliament in the European Union in the Context of the 2009 Elections at the European Parliament, Brussels, Belgium, 5 March 2008.

“Policy Outcomes, Voting, and Citizen Knowledge.” Paper prepared for presentation at the 2007 General Conference of the European Consortium for Political Research, Pisa, Italy, 6-8 September 2007.

[with Marina Popescu] “The Impact of Media Systems on the Making of Informed Election Outcomes.” Paper prepared for presentation at the 2007 General Conference of the European Consortium for Political Research, Pisa, Italy, 6-8 September 2007.

“Citizen Information, Election Outcomes and Good Governance.” Paper prepared for presentation at the 2007 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, 30 August-2 September.

“The Impact of Political Discussion on Political Awareness: A New Research Design.” Paper presented at the 57th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association, San Francisco, CA, 24-28 May 2007. Winner of the Top Ten Interactive Paper Award.

“Knowledgeable Citizens, Election Outcomes and Good Government.” Paper presented at the 57th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association, San Francisco, CA, 24-28 May 2007.

[with Oana Lup] “Political Discussion and Voting Correctly: Evaluating the Impact of Deliberation.” Paper presented at the Joint Sessions of Workshops of the European Consortium for Political Research, Helsinki, Finland, 7-12 May 2007.

[with Tania Gosselin] “The Impact of Cleavages on Political Participation and Volatility.” Paper presented at the Joint Sessions of Workshops of the European Consortium for Political Research, Helsinki, Finland, 7-12 May 2007.

[with Marina Popescu] “Citizen Information, Election Outcomes and Media System.” Paper presented at the conference on Communicating Europe in the News and in Public Opinion: European Integration and the Future of European Political Institutions at the University of Exeter, UK, 15-16 March 2007. See conference program at

“Citizen Information, Election Outcomes and Good Governance.” Paper tabled at the Conference on Contextual Effects in Electoral Research, European University Institute, Florence, Italy, 30 November-1 December 2006.

[with Wouter van der Brug, Mark Franklin, and Marina Popescu] “Towards a European Electorate. One Electorate or Many?” Paper presented at the conference on the The Legitimacy of the European Union After Enlargement at Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland, 23-25 November 2006.

“Values and the Legacy of Communism: Comparisons between Eastern and Western Mass Publics.” Paper presented at the 38th National Convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Washington, DC, 16-19 November 2006.

“Citizen Information, Election Outcomes and Good Governance.” Paper presented at the Conference on the Comparative Study of Electoral Systems at Bangalore, India, 2-3 November 2006.

“The 2006 Hungarian Election.” Presentation at the Comparative National Elections Project conference at Kunming, China, 20-21 July 2006.

[with Marina Popescu] “East Meets West. On the Compatibility of Value Orientations in Western vs. Eastern and Central Europe.” Presentation at the meeting of Group 3 Connex FP6 Network of Excellence funded by the European Commission at the University of Twente, Enschede, the Netherlands, 16-17 June 2006.

“The Functions of Political Discussion and its Impact on Political Awareness: A Research Note.” Paper presented at the workshop on “The Role of Political Discussion in Modern Democracies in a Comparative Perspective” at the 2006 Joint Sessions of Workshops of the European Consortium for Political Research in Nicosia, Cyprus, 25-30 April 2006.

“Information Effects on Vote Choices in European Elections.” Paper presented at the European Election Study meeting on the 2004 European Parliament Elections at the Instituto Ciências Sociais da Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal, 12-13 April 2006.

“Citizen Information, Party Systems and Good Governance: Preliminary Findings.” Presentation at the Conference on the Comparative Study of Electoral Systems organized by the Centro de Estudios Andaluces (CEA) and the Centro de Investigaciones Sociológicas (CIS), Seville, Spain, 28-29 March 2006.

[with Zsolt Enyedi] “Political Parties in Decline?" Paper prepared for the international symposium on Political Parties and Democracy organized by the Ankara Bar Association, Ankara, Turkey, 26-27 May 2005.

“Information Effects on Vote Choices in European Elections.” Paper presented at the European Election Study 2004 conference at the Central European University, Budapest, Hungary, 20-23 May 2005.

“Representation: Parties and Voting.” Paper presented at the conference on Developments in European Politics at the SAIS Bologna Center of the Johns Hopkins University, Bologna, Italy, 4-5 March 2005.

“East-West Value Differences and Vote Choices in EP Elections.” Paper presented at the annual conference of the Hungarian Sociological Association, Budapest, Hungary, 19-20 November 2004.

“East-West Value Differences, Voting Behavior and the European Parliament.” Paper presented at the 9^th International Conference of the Italian Election Studies Association on Europe 2004: The Institutions and the Citizens, Milan, Italy, 28-29 October 2004.

“East-West Value Differences in the European Union and the Legacy of Communism.” Paper presented at the World Values Study Association conference at Budapest, Hungary, 2-5 September 2004.

[with Attila Fölsz] “The Dynamics of Public Opinion about the European Union in Hungary.” Paper presented at the conference on “Public Opinion About the European Union in Central Europe” in Bloomington, Indiana, 2-4 April 2004.

“The Impact of Turnout on Election Outcomes in a Cross-national Perspective.” Paper presented at the panel on “Comparative European Political Behavior” at the 14th International Conference of Europeanists organized by the Council for European Studies in Chicago, IL, 11-13 March 2004.

[with Marina Popescu] “Media Effects in Campaigns in Elections in East Central Europe.” Paper presented at the 8^th International Conference of the Italian Election Studies Association, Venice International University, Italy, 18-20 December 2003.

“Can Voters Be Equal? A Cross-National Analysis.” Paper presented at the Comparative Study of Electoral Systems Plenary Conference at the Aronsborg Conference Center, Stockholm, Sweden, 2-4 October 2003.

“The Impact of Cross-Cutting Cleavages on Citizens’ Political Involvement.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Philadelphia, 27-31 August 2003.

[with Marina Popescu] “Campaign Effects in East Central Europe: Examples from Recent Elections.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Philadelphia, 27-31 August 2003.

“The Impact of Cleavage Mobilization on Citizens’ Political Involvement.” Paper presented at the Joint Sessions of Workshops of the European Consortium for Political Research, Edinburgh, UK, 28 March - 2 April 2003.

“Negative Information and Citizens’ Political Involvement.” Paper presented at the Joint Sessions of Workshops of the European Consortium for Political Research, Turin, Italy, 22-27 March 2002.

“Expressive vs. Instrumental Voting and Institutional Design.” Paper presented at the Comparative Study of Electoral Systems conference at the Wissenschaftszentrum für Sozialforschung, Berlin, Germany, 21-24 February 2002.

[with Marina Popescu] “Districting and Redistricting in Eastern and Central Europe: Regulations and Practices.” Paper presented at the conference on Redistricting from a Comparative Perspective at the University of California at Irvine, 6-8 December 2001.

“Political Representation and Political Information Level.” Paper presented at the 2001 General Conference of the European Consortium for Political Research, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK, 6-8 September 2001.

“Turnout: What Moves It and Does It Really Matter?” Paper presented at the 2001 General Conference of the European Consortium for Political Research, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK, 6-8 September 2001.

"Turnout and Information Effects on Election Outcomes in a Comparative Perspective." Paper presented at the conference on Political Participation: Building a Research Agenda, Center for the Study of Democratic Politics, Princeton University, New Jersey, 12-14 October 2000.

"Expressive vs. Instrumental Voting and the Number of Parties." Paper presented at the Special Session on the Comparative Study of Electoral Systems at the 18th World Congress of the International Political Science Association, Quebec City, Canada, 1-5 August 2000.

[with Marina Popescu] "Campaign Effects in the 1994 and 1998 Parliamentary Elections in Hungary." Paper presented at the 28th Joint Sessions and Workshops of the European Consortium for Political Research, Copenhagen, Denmark, 14-19 April 2000.

"Do Some Party Systems Make Equal Votes Unequal? A Comparison of Old and New Democracies." Paper presented at the conference on Re-Thinking Democracy in the New Millennium, organized by the University of Houston, Texas, 16-19 February 2000.

"Some Neglected Links between Democratic Consolidation and the Quality of Democracy." Paper presented at the Conference on Institutional Design, JPSA/ECPR Joint Project on Measuring Democratic Consolidation Through Inter-Regional Comparisons - Europe and East Asia, Tokyo, Japan, 26-27 October 1999.

"The Hierarchy of Issue Domains in Inter-Party Relations in East Central Europe with a Directional Model of Coalition Formation." Paper presented at the 94th Annual Meeting of the Amer ican Political Science Association, Boston, Massachusetts, 3-6 September 1998.

"Hungary." Paper presented at the ECPR Working Group conference on the Electoral Handbook of Eastern Europe, Wissenschaftszentrum, Berlin, Germany, 22-25 January 1998.

"The Impact of Various Policy Domains on Politicians' Coalition Preferences in East Central Europe." Paper presented at the Fourth Conference of the Central European Political Science Associations, Rijeka, Croatia, 10-11 January 1998.

"Electoral Studies in Hungary." Paper presented at the Third Berlin Conference on Elections and Democratic Consolidation: East European Research Networks, Wissenschaftszentrum, Berlin, Germany, 19-21 December 1997.

"The Mobilization of Social Cleavages in Hungary in a Comparative Perspective." Paper presented at the international seminar on the Evolution of Political Orientations in Post-communist Societies, Samara, Russia, 7-9 November 1997.

"Political Parties and Democratic Consolidation in East Central Europe." Paper presented at the symposium organized by the Department of Political Science, Wroclaw University, and the International Centre of the University of Tübingen, Dusniki Zdroj, Poland, 28 September - 1 October 1997.

"Stability of Party Support and Modes of Party Appeal." Paper presented at the 25th Joint Sessions and Workshops of the European Consortium for Political Research, Bern, Switzerland, 27 February - 4 March 1997.

"Political Parties and Democratic Consolidation in East Central Europe." Paper presented at the 2nd symposium of the International Political Science Association on The Challenge of Regime Transformation: New Politics in Central and Eastern Europe, organized by the Department of International Relations and Political Science at the University of Vilnius, Vilnius, Lithuania, 10-15 December 1996.

"The Impact of Various Policy Domains on Politicians' Coalition Preferences in East Central Europe." Paper presented at the European Science Foundation conference on Transition and Political Power Structures, Cambridge, UK, 19-21 April 1996.

"Political Parties and the Bases of Party Support in East Central Europe." Paper presented at the conference on Consolidating the Third Wave Democracies: Trends and Challenges, organized by the Institute for National Policy Research and the International Forum for Democratic Studies - National Endowment for Democracy, Taipei, ROC, 27-30 August 1995.

"The Programmatic Structuring of Party Competition in Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland in Spring 1994: Which Contexts Facilitate Policy Representation?" Paper presented at the conference on Political Representation: Parties and Parliamentary Democracy at the Central European University, Budapest, 16-17 June 1995.

"The Programmatic Structuring of Party Competition in Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland in Spring 1994." Paper presented at the workshop on Public Opinion and Party Formation in Post-Communist and Authoritarian Democracies at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, 24-25 March 1995.

“Ideological Constraints on the Political Attitudes of the 1956 Hungarian Refugees.” Paper presented at the 25^th National Convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Honolulu, Hawai, November 1993.

"Parties and Electoral Choices in East Central Europe." Paper presented at the Conference of the Centre for Mediterranean Studies, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK, 17-19 September 1993.

"Regime Support and the Economy." Paper presented at the conference on "Democratic Legitimacy in Post-Socialist Societies: The Impact of the Past and the Challenges of the Present", Visegrád, Hungary, 28 August - 1 September 1993.

"Changing Dimensions of Party Competition: Hungary 1991-1992." Paper presented at the IREX conference on "Elections and Political Stability in East Central Europe", Princeton, New Jersey, 1-5 June 1992.

"The Impact of the Religion Issue on Electoral Preferences in Hungary 1990-1991." Paper prepared for presentation at the annual meeting of the German Political Science Association, Hamburg, Germany, November 1991.

"Beginnings of Pluralism." Paper presented at the conference on Elections and Political Stability in Eastern Europe, sponsored by IREX in cooperation with the Institute of Political Studies of the Polish Academy of Science, Madralin, Poland, 6-10 June 1991.

"Voting Behaviour in Hungary." Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Working Group on Election and Attitude Research of the German Political Science Association, Koblenz, Germany, 11-13 March 1991.

"Determinants of Election Results and Party Preferences in Hungary." Paper presented at the seminar on Overcoming Obstacles to Democracy and Institution Building in Eastern Europe organized by the Institute of East-West Security Studies and the Netherlands Institute of International Relations 'Clingendael', The Hague, The Netherlands, 9-11 November 1990.

Invited talks

“Impatient for Gender Parity in Parliaments but Bothered by Mandatory Quotas? Consider Preference Voting.“ Presentation at the 20^th anniversary conference of the Association of European Election Officials, 15-18 June 2011, Budapest, Hungary.

“Media Systems, Citizen Knowledge, and the Quality of Preference Aggregation in Elections.” Presentation at the Mannheim Centre for European Social Research at the University of Mannheim, Germany, 2 May 2011.

“Media Systems, Election Outcomes, and Quality of Governance.” Presentation at the Institute for Democracy and Conflict Resolution at the University of Essex, United Kingdom, 24 November 2010.

“Research design.” Workshop for PhD students in Political Science at the Conférence Universitaire de Suisse Occidentale, Vevey, Switzerland, 19-20 November 2010.

[with Ildikó Laki] “A fogyatékossággal élő emberek politikai részvétele Európában és Magyarországon (The Political Participation of People Living with Disabilities).” Presentation at the conference on Fogyatékosság és Politikai Jogok Magyarországon (Disabilities and Political Rights in Hungary) organized by the Társaság a Szabadságjogokért (Society for Civic Liberties), Budapest, 22 October 2010.

[with Marina Popescu] “Public Television, Private Television and Citizens’ Political Knowledge.” Presentation at the Transnational Connections Symposium organized by the Instituto de Empressa University and the Annenberg School for Communication, Segovia, Spain, 24-25 March 2010.

“What More Could We Learn from Comparative Surveys on Voting Behavior/Public Opinion.” Presentation at the Graduate Network Conference Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona, Spain, 18-20 March 2010.

“The East-West Comparative Perspective on the 2009 Election." Contribution to the symposium on the 2009 European Parliament Elections at the General Conference of the European Consortium for Political Research, Potsdam, Germany, 10-13 September 2009.

“Party Systems: Is There a Tendency Towards Integration or Fragmentation?" Presentation at the symposia series on “Did grow together what belonged together? 20 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall. German and European experiences” at the General Conference of the European Consortium for Political Research, Potsdam, Germany, 10-13 September 2009.

“First Inferences from a Deliberative Polling Experiment on the Eve of 2009 EP Election.” Contribution to a roundtable on the 2009 European Parliament elections at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, Florence, Italy, 10 June 2009.

“The Impact of Media Systems on the Making of Informed Election Outcomes.” Presentation at the Center for the Study of Political Change (CIRCaP), University of Siena, Italy, 7 April 2009.

“A jó kormányzat, az ismeretgazdag választóközönség, és a tömegtájékoztatási rendszer összefüggései nemzetközi összehasonlításban (The Interrelationships between Good Government, Knowledgeable Electorates, and Systems of Mass Communication in a Comparative Perspective).” The annual István Bibó Lecture at the conference of the Hungarian Political Science Association, 11 December 2008, Budapest, Hungary.

“Cleavage Structures and Democratic Processes.” Presentation at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, Florence, Italy, 18 November 2009.

“Media Systems, Informed Election Outcomes, and Good Government.” Presentation at Nuffield College, Oxford, UK, 19 February 2008.

“What More We Could Learn from Comparative Surveys?” Presentation at the Workshop on Turkish Elections 2007 at Sabancı University, Karaköy Communication Center, Istanbul, Turkey, 30 November – 1 December 2007.

“The Causes and Impact of Informed Election Outcomes.” Presentation at the Survey Research Center, University of California at Berkeley, CA, 23 May 2007.

“Political Knowledge and Voter Inequality.” Paper presented at the Department of Political Science, New York University, NY, 13 November 2006.

[with Gábor Király] “Részvételi demokrácia (Participatory Democracy).” Presentation at the ‘Fenntartható Magyarország’ lecture series, Millenáris Park, Budapest, 28 May 2006. URL: http://www.kotok.hu/reszdem_060521_kg.pdf

“How Does Public Deliberation Contribute to Citizenship Learning?” Invited contribution to a public seminar at the Maison de l’Europe, organized by Notre Europe in Paris, France, 5 April 2006.

“Diferencias de valores entre la Europa del Este y del Oeste y el legado del comunismo.” Lecture at the summer course on ‘El cambio de valores el las sociedades industriales: Convergencias y divergencias’ organized by the Universidad Complutense Madrid, San Lorenzo de El Escorial, Spain, 4 August 2005.

“The Hungarian Electoral System: Its Origin and Survival.” Presentation at the conference on ‘Electoral Reform – A 15 year Old Topic’, organized by the Pro Democratia Association and the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, Bucharest, Romania, 17 June 2005.

“East-West Value Differences in the European Union and the Legacy of Communism.” Paper presented at the Instituto Ciências Sociais da Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal, 3 June 2005. URL:

“East-West Value Differences in the European Union and the Legacy of Communism.” Paper presented at the Department of Political Science and International Relations, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain, 10 May 2005.

“Voting Behaviour, Information Level and the Paradoxes of Democracy.” Lecture series at the Department of Political Science at the Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona, Spain, January 2005.

“East-West Value Differences, Voting Behavior and the European Parliament.” Lecture at the Department of Government at the London School of Economics, United Kingdom, 11 January 2005.

“Politikai kultúra Magyarországon és Közép-Európában.” Lecture at the ‘Folyamatok a Változásban’ conference organized by the Teleki László Intézet Közép-Európai Tanulmányok Központja, Budapest, 30 September-1 October 2004.

“Media Effects on Voting Behavior” and “Electoral System Effects.” Lectures in the Invisible College in Chisinau, Moldova, November 2002.

“Democratic Institutions.” Lecture series at the Open Society Institute Summer School organized by the Albanian Political Science Association, Tirana, Albania, July 2002.

“Voting Behavior, Political Preferences and Policy Evaluations.” Lecture series at the Open Society Institute Summer School organized by the Romanian Society of Political Science, Tescani, Romania, June 2002.

“Deliberative Polls.” Prepared for presentation at the Government-Citizen Communication Workshop organized by the Open Society Institute at Budapest, 8-9 March 2002. URL: http://www.osi.hu/infoprogram/commworkshop/Presentations/Deliberative_Polls.htm

“Economic Voting: A Review.” Presentation at the workshop on Public Opinion and Economic Reforms organized by the Institute for Economic and Social Reforms (Bratislava) and the Institute for Public Affairs (Bratislava), Bratislava, Slovakia, 11 March 2002.

“Party Positions and the Quality of Democracy,” and “Party Institutionalization and Democratic Consolidation.” Lectures at the 10^th PhD Summer School on European Parties and Party Systems ‘Party-Political Elites in the New Europe: Governance and Legitimacy’ at the School of Politics, International Relations and the Environment, Keele University, United Kingdom, 10-21 September 2001.

“The Hungarian Electoral System.” Presentation at the roundtable on the Romanian Electoral System Reform organized by the Romanian Society of Political Science with the Department of Government, University of Essex, at the American Cultural Center in Bucharest, Romania, 25 June 2001.

“Electoral Laws and Party Systems in East Central Europe.” Lecture at the St. Kliment Ohridski University, Sofia, Bulgaria, 3 May 2001.

“The Impact of Economic Conditions on Electoral Outcomes.” Lecture at the New Bulgarian University, Sofia, Bulgaria, 4 May 2001.

“Introduction to Comparative Politics.” Lecture series at the Open Society Institute Summer School organized by the Albanian Political Science Association, Tirana, Albania, July 2000.

“Institutional Design and Electoral Behaviour.” Lecture series at the OSI Summer School organized by the Department of Political Science and International Relations, Vilnius University, Lithuania, July 2000.

"Kampányhatások az 1994-es és 1998-as magyar országgyűlési választásokon (Campaign Effects in the 1994 and 1998 Parliamentary Elections in Hungary)." Presentation at the ‘Félidőben - Két választás között (Half Time - Between Two Elections)’ conference organized by the Friedrich Naumann Foundation, 7-8 June 2000, Budapest.

“A választási rendszer hatása a pártválasztás motivumaira – Magyarország nemzetközi összehasonlításban (The Impact of the Electoral System on Motives of Party Choice – Hungary in a Cross-National Comparison).” Presentation at the Conference of the Year 1998, Budapest University of Economics, 13 November 1999.

"Institutional and Socio-Economic Determinants of Electoral Behaviour." Lecture at the Helen Kellogg Institute, University of Notre Dame, Indiana, October 1998.

"Media Effects on Election Outcomes." Lecture at the European University, St. Petersburg, Russia, April 1998.

"Political Parties and Democratic Consolidation." Lecture at the Sociological Association, St. Petersburg, Russia, April 1998.

"A magyar pártrendszer és választói magatartás nemzetközi összehasonlításban (The Hungarian Party System and Electoral Behaviour in Comparative Perspective)." Presentation at the ‘Félidőben (Half Time)’ conference organized by the Friedrich Naumann Foundation, 29-30 November 1996, Budapest.

"Electoral Behaviour in East Central Europe." Lecture at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic, April 1996.

"Theories of Coalition Government." Lecture at the Faculty of Philosophy, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic, April 1996.

"Törésvonalelmélet és választói magatartás (The Concept of Cleavages and Electoral Behaviour)." Presentation at the conference on 'Tíz év a magyar gazdaságban, társadalomban és politikában' on the 10th anniversary of the founding of the Social Research Informatics Centre (TÁRKI), 16-17 February 1995, Budapest.

"How Can We Recognize A Cleavage When It Is (Re-)Born? Puzzles in East Central European Electoral Behaviour." Presentation at the conference on Party Politics in the Year 2000, 13-15 January 1995, Manchester, UK.

"A magyar választási rendszerről (On the Hungarian Electoral System)." Presentation at the ‘Választások után (After the Elections)’ conference organized by the Friedrich Naumann Foundation, October 1994, Budapest.