Research Interests

political institutions and institution building, democratic innovations, political system of the Visegrad countries, electoral and voting behavior of young people, political participation, political socialization.

Selected Publications

Kovarek, D., & Oross, D. (2024). Charter–manifesto congruence as a signal for issue salience: democratic innovations within political parties in Hungary. Democratization, 31(7), 1465–1488. 

Gherghina, S., Farcas, R., & Oross, D. (2024). Referendums as extended arms of the government: evidence from an illiberal regime. East European Politics, 40(4), 591–613.

Claassen, C., Ackermann, K., Bertsou, E., Borba, L., Carlin, R. E., Cavari, A., Dahlum, S., Gherghina, S., Hawkins, D., Lelkes, Y., Magalhães, P. C., Mattes, R., Meijers, M. J., Neundorf, A., Oross, D., Öztürk, A., Sarsfield, R., Self, D., Stanley, B., … Zechmeister, E. J. (2024). Conceptualizing and Measuring Support for Democracy: A New Approach. Comparative Political Studies, 0(0).

Oross, D., Tap, P. (2021): Using deliberation for partisan purposes: evidence from the Hungarian National Consultation, Innovation: The European Journal of Social Science Research

Oross, D., Mátyás, E., Gherghina, S. (2021): Sustainability and Politics: Explaining the Emergence of the 2020 Budapest Climate Assembly. Sustainability 13 :11 p. 6100

Oross D., Tap P.(2021): Moving online: political parties and the internal use of digital tools in Hungary, European Societies, Taylor and Francis Online, online first

Oross D., Kiss G. (2021): More than just an experiment? Politicians arguments behind introducing participatory budgeting in Budapest, Acta Politica, online first

Research Projects

INSPIRE – Innovating Spaces of Participation Inclusive Resilient Embedded

PolarVis – Visual Persuasion in a Transforming Europe (PolarVis)

STRUDEL – Sustainability conflicts, Transformation and Uneven Development