Centre for Social Sciences Institute for Minority Studies

Research Interests

• Ethnicity and politics, the participation and representation of the minorities in the public life, decision-making processes in minority policy
• Non-territorial minority autonomies in Europe
• The modern history of the minorities living in Hungary, the 1993 and 2011 minority laws, the system of minority self-governments, the elections of minority self-governments, minority rights in Hungary
• Roma political parties in Hungary

Selected Publications

• Dobos Balázs: Cultural Autonomy, Safe Haven or Window-Dressing?: Institutions Maintained by Minority Self-Governments in Hungary. In: Ghencea, Flavia; Dodovski, Ivan; Smith, David J. (eds.): Realising Linguistic, Cultural and Educational Rights Through Non-Territorial Autonomy. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland (2023) pp. 155-170. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-19856-4_11

• Vizi Balázs; Dobos Balázs; Natalija, Shikova (eds.): Non-Territorial Autonomy as an Instrument for Effective Participation of Minorities. Budapest, Szkopje: Centre for Social Sciences (CSS), University American College Skopje (2021), 330 p.

• Dobos Balázs, Molnár Sansum Judit: Cultural Autonomy in Hungary: Inward or Outward Looking? Nationalities Papers, 1-16 (2020). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/nps.2019.80
• Dobos Balázs: The Elections to Nonterritorial Autonomies of Central and South Eastern Europe. Nationalities Papers, 1-18 (2019). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/nps.2019.1
• Dobos Balázs: Minority Governance Of Whom, By Whom, to Whom? Non-Territorial Autonomies in Central and South East Europe. JAHRBUCH FÜR OSTRECHT 60:1 pp. 31-54. , 24 p. (2019)

• Dobos Balázs: Consultative and advisory bodies for minorities: A European Overview. In: Alexander, Osipov; Hanna, Vasilevich (eds.) Compilation of the lectures on the topic of 'Participation of minorities in public life'. Flensburg: ECMI, (2017) pp. 66-77.

• Dobos Balázs: The Minority Self-Governments in Hungary. Compendium Autonomy Arrangements in the World, eds Levente Salat; Sergiu Constantin; Alexander Osipov; István Gergő Székely , 39 p. (2016). Bolzano: EURAC Research,

• Dobos Balázs: With or without you: Integrating migrants into the minority protection regime in Hungary. MIGRATION LETTERS 13:(2) pp. 242-257. (2016)
• Dobos Balázs: Between Importing and Exporting Minority Rights: The Minority Self-Governments in Hungary. In: Salat Levente, Constantin Sergiu, Osipov Alexander, Székely István Gergő (szerk.): Autonomy Arrangements around the World: A Collection of Well and Lesser Known Cases. Cluj-Napoca: The Romanian Institute for Research on National Minorities, 2014. pp. 275-298. (ISBN:978-606-8377-30-8)
• Dobos Balázs: The Role of Elections in Minority Contexts: The Hungarian Case. In: Nimni Ephraim, Osipov Alexander, Smith David J (szerk.): The Challenge of Non-Territorial Autonomy: Theory and Practice. Oxford: Peter Lang Academic Publishers, 2013. pp. 163-180. (ISBN:978-3-0343-1714-6)
• Dobos Balázs: Roma political parties in Hungary after 1989. In: Dácz Enikő (szerk.): Minderheitenfragen in Ungarn und in den Nachbarländern im 20. und 21. Jahrhundert. Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2013. pp. 279-291. (Andrássy Studien zur Europaforschung; 8.) (ISBN:978-3-8487-0779-9)
• Dobos Balázs: A kisebbség joga: Kisebbségi törvénykezés Magyarországon (1988-2006). Budapest: Argumentum - MTA Etnikai-nemzeti Kisebbségkutató Intézete, 2011. 269 p. (ISBN:978-963-446-642-0)
• Dobos Balázs: The Development and Functioning of Cultural Autonomy in Hungary. ETHNOPOLITICS 6:(3) pp. 451-469. (2007). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/17449050701487488

Research Projects

Ongoing research projects:

• The parliamentary representation of minorities in international comparison: descriptive or substantive representation? (Hungarian National Research, Development and Innovation Office, 2022-2026)
• ENTAN - European Non-Territorial Autonomy Network (COST Action 18114, 2019-2022)

Past research projects:

• The effectiveness of minority self-governance in Central and South Eastern Europe (János Bolyai Research Scholarship of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 2019-2022, ÚNKP Bolyai+ New National Excellence Program of the Ministry for Innovation and Technology, 2019-2020)
• “The Internal Dynamics of Non-Territorial Autonomy Regimes in Central and South-eastern Europe: a Five-Country Comparison” (Hungarian National Research, Development and Innovation Office, postdoctoral grant, 2015-2019). The Elections of Non-Territorial Autonomies in Central and South Eastern Europe: Croatia, Estonia, Hungary, Serbia and Slovenia. Electoral Database (1994-2019) (in Hungarian)
• “Ethnopolitical mobilization and Roma parties in Hungary and in East Central Europe” (János Bolyai Research Scholarship of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 2012-2015)
• The comparative analysis of the legal status of minorities in Central Europe (Hungary and its neighboring countries. Project between 2004-2017). Legal database (in Hungarian)

Work in Progress

• Balázs Dobos: The parliamentary representation of minorities in Hungary - recent developments (European Yearbook of Minority Issues 2022, to be published in 2023, Brill)
• Katinka Beretka, Balázs Dobos: Chapter VII. The legal and institutional context of NTA. In: Marina Andeva, Balázs Dobos, Ljubica Djordjevic, Börries Kuzmany, Tove H. Malloy (eds.): Non-Territorial Autonomy. An Introduction. Palgrave Macmillan, 2023. (forthcoming)