Edit Zgut-Przybylska

Twitter: @ZgutEdit

Dr. Edit Zgut-Przybylska is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology (IFIS) in the Polish Academy of Sciences (PAN) and a visiting fellow at CEU Democracy Institute. Her research interest covers informality and populism in the context of democratic backsliding and the constraining role of the European Union. She is also a visiting lecturer at the Foreign Service Institute of the US State Department. Synthetic versions of her work are available on POLITICO EUROPE, Foreign Policy and Visegrad Insight. Edit held a re:constitution fellowship 2022/2023, a Rethink.CEE fellowship at the German Marshall Fund of the United States and a Visegrad Insight Fellowship. She previously worked at Political Capital Research Institute and prior to that, she was a journalist at various media outlets in Hungary.

Articles

How Orbán’s Power Machine Cracked From Within

14 May 2026

Orban’s Domestic Political Weapon of Choice? Foreign Disinformation

25 February 2025

Poland’s Reform Blueprint: Lessons for Democratic Renewal in Hungary

21 August 2024

How Chinese Investment Props Up Orbán and Erodes Democracy

10 November 2022

The Orbán Regime Intimidates Roma Community to Win the Elections

2 February 2022

Bifurcating Paths

12 July 2021

Perverse Privatisation or the Dark Arts of Establishing a Parallel State

20 May 2021

Coercive Clientelism Is on the Rise in Kaczyński’s Poland

2 March 2021

The Danger of a Budget Compromise

10 December 2020

Hungary’s Constitution – Vehicle for Political Corruption

12 November 2020

A Most Difficult Task

9 July 2020

Autocratic Shield against EU Criticism

5 June 2020

Authoritarian Regime Durability

7 May 2020

A Perfect Storm

15 April 2020

Pretext for Revenge

27 March 2020

New and Old Enemies

6 February 2020

Protecting the Vulnerable

9 January 2020

Shifted into Higher Gear

12 November 2019

Illiberal Twilight

15 October 2019

Would-be Autocrats

23 September 2019

Orbán’s Cat and Mouse Game

11 June 2019

Orbán’s Next Victim: the Hungarian Science Academy

11 February 2019

A Time for Inclusion

17 January 2019

Viktor Orbán’s Latest Move

19 December 2018

Total Centralisation and the Illiberal Takeover

30 November 2018

The Uphill Battle

26 October 2018

Facing Stalemate

30 August 2018

On Shaky Ground

1 August 2018

The Limitations of Subterfuge

4 July 2018

Fortifying CE Democracies

20 June 2018