Bernadett Sebály | Doctoral School of Political Science, Public Policy and International Relations

Bernadett Sebály completed her doctoral studies at CEU’s Doctoral School of Political Science in January 2026. She is currently a Postdoctoral Researcher at CEU's Department of Public Policy, where she leads a learning program on countering authoritarian dynamics. Visit https://people.ceu.edu/bernadett_sebaly.

Dissertation Topic

Why Some Housing Struggles Succeed: A Comparative Case Study of Movement Strategies in Hungary between 1987 and 2024

Supervisor

Andrea Krizsán

Publications

I’m a Veteran Organizer From Hungary. Here Are My Lessons for the Trump Era

Podcast: The Story of Our Struggles - a social movement database

Steppingstones in larger struggles. How can we combine colliding struggles in the care crisis?

Building Stronger Democracies Through Broader Participation: Can Community Organizing Meet the Challenge?

"We all have to live somewhere!" The last three decades of the Hungarian housing movement – a bottom-up view –1989-2021

Social Movements and Policy Change: Case Study on Caregiver Benefit Policies in Hungary

Stärkung der Demokratien durch eine breitere Beteiligung? Das Versprechen des Community Organizing-Ansatzes