"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

Tag Archives: quality of government

Data Concealment and Mortality in Covid-19 Pandemic. An Illustrative Figure and a Hypothesis

Publications, Research Notes, Short PapersCovid-19, quality of government

April 29, 2021

Public information provision by the government is essential to create trust in the government and government decisions, especially in the Covid-19 pandemic, when citizens’ compliance to the government measures is essential to curb the epidemy. On the other hand, the public information provided by the government supports that the government decisions on pandemic based on experts’ opinion, well-founded evidence, and analysis.

Therefore, it is worth analyzing read more

Adatok, járvány, intézményi minőség

Presentations, Publicationscorruption, data publication quality, quality of government

April 8, 2021

Adatok, járvány, intézményi minőség [Data, COVID-19 Pandemic, Institutional Quality]

Presentation in Hungarian in the Budapest Science Meetup (pdf)

Refugee Crisis in Hungary – 2015. A Content Analysis of Articles from on-line Version of Eight News Outlets

Publications, Reportscontent analysis, Hungary, quality of government, refugee crisis

1 October 2016

The paper explores how the international media dealt with refugee crisis in Hungary between March and September 2015. We selected all articles from The New York Times, The Washington Post, Le Monde, Le Figaro, Mirror, The Telegraph, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and Süddeutsche Zeitung which contained the words “Hungary” or “Hungarian” or “migrant” or “migration”. Our sample contains 1,518 news articles. During the analysis we used the technics of quantitative and qualitative read more