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Eszter Kováts

Eszter Kováts

Budapest

Eszter Kováts is a political scientist and doctoral candidate at the University ELTE in Budapest. She was responsible for the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung's East-Central European Gender Programme from 2012 to the end of 2019. She currently lives in Berlin.

Articles

Democracy and society | 06.07.2023

Orbán’s anti-woke pretence

Hungary’s PM is portraying his country's anti-democratic shift as ‘truly conservative’. This strategy seems to resonate with Western [...]

Future of social democracy | 27.11.2020

The culture war over the Istanbul Convention in East Central Europe

Between right-wing polarisation and progressives' blind spots, the culture war over 'gender' rages with full force

European integration | 29.04.2020

How Fidesz and PiS exploit the culture war

They are pushing polarising agendas and devastating socio-economic policies. EU elites only seem to care about the former

Europe | 30.03.2020

East-Central Europe's revolt against imitation

Krastev and Holmes shed light on the rise of illiberalism in Europe's East, but ignore the damage caused by neoliberalism

Europe | 03.07.2019

The EU’s ongoing East-West divide

How the West’s economic exploitation and moral arrogance fuel right-wing populism in East-Central Europe

Europe | 18.12.2018

Beyond the anti-women backlash

How we can understand women’s support for the right in Poland and Hungary