"When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind; it may be the beginning of knowledge, but you have scarcely, in your thoughts, advanced to the stage of science, whatever the matter may be."
Lord Kelvin

Publications

Korrupció és önkormányzati választások Magyarországon

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December 20, 2024

 

Tóth, I. J., Kovács, N. N., Vida, M., & Hajdu, M. (2024, December 20). Korrupció és önkormányzati választások Magyarországon. Az 1998-2023 közötti közbeszerzési korrupciós kockázatok és a 2019-es önkormányzati választások elemzése. (Corruption and Municipal Elections in Hungary. Analysis of Public Procurement Corruption Risk from 1998 to 2023 and the 2019 Municipal Elections.) [Conference Presentation]. Hungarian Society of read more

Mitigation, Whitewashing, Obfuscation and Manipulation

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December 14, 2023

 

Tóth, I. J., & Varga, J. (2023, December 14). Mitigation, Whitewashing, Obfuscation, and Manipulation. Content Analysis of Articles on the Russian Aggression in Ukraine During the First 15 Days of the War, Based on Publications of Four Hungarian News Portals and the BBC [Presentation]. Budapest Science Meetup, Budapest, read more

The New Trends of Corruption Risk in Hungarian Public Procurement from January 1998 to July 2023

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October 17, 2023

In 2023, the risk of corruption increased for public contracts awarded to crony companies, while it decreased for those awarded to ordinary Hungarian companies with no political ties. This suggests that, following the EU’s measures to restore the rule of law in Hungary, the advantage of crony companies in the Hungarian public procurement market actually increased. They have won public contracts with a higher risk of corruption than before the measures were taken.

The corruption risk of tenders won by read more

The Role of Ukrainian and Russian Sources in the First Articles on the Makiivka Missile Attack

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March 13, 2023

 

Tóth, I. J. and Hámori, Á. 2023. The Role of Ukrainian and Russian Sources in the First Articles on the Makiivka Missile Attack: A content analysis of articles from six leading news portals (BBC, CNN, The Guardian, The New York Times, Reuters, and The Washington Post). CRCB Research Notes: 2023:2. Budapest: read more

Fourteen Graphs and Two Tables on the New Trends of Corruption Risk in the Hungarian Public Procurement 2005-2022

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February 7, 2023

 

This CRCB Report presents trends in corruption risk in Hungarian public procurement from 2005 to 2022, using 14 graphs and 2 tables. The report includes information from a contract-level dataset covering full-year 2022 data. The CRCB’s aim with this report is to inform EU taxpayers (especially Hungarian ones) within T+45 days about corruption risk trends in Hungary in read more