Gabor Scheiring: the political economy of illiberalism

Gabor Scheiring is Assistant Professor of Comparative Politics at Georgetown University in Qatar. He received his Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Cambridge. His research uses quantitative, qualitative, and comparative methods to address how economic shocks generate inequality in health and wellbeing, and how these inequalities shape democracy and capitalist diversity through the national-populist mutation of neoliberalism. He is the author of The Retreat of Liberal Democracy: Authoritarian Capitalism and the Accumulative State in Hungary (2020). He is currently working on a book comparing the post-socialist population crisis in Eastern Europe and the deaths of despair epidemic in the US, and how they fuel populism through worse health and social disintegration. From 2010 until 2014, he was a Member of Parliament in the Hungarian National Assembly, serving in the Committee for Economic Affairs. He works also in the economic system of Tunisia.