Research Interests

• Ethnicity and politics, the participation and representation of the minorities in the public life, decision-making processes in minority policy
• Non-territorial minority autonomies in Europe
• The modern history of the minorities living in Hungary, the 1993 and 2011 minority laws, the system of minority self-governments, the elections of minority self-governments, minority rights in Hungary
• Roma political parties in Hungary

Selected Publications

• Dobos Balázs: The Parliamentary Representation of Minorities in Hungary. EUROPEAN YEARBOOK OF MINORITY ISSUES 21:1 pp. 288-312., 25 p. (2024)

• Dobos Balázs; Kovács Attila; Munda Hirnök Katalin: Narodnostni vidiki parlamentarnih volitev na Madžarskem leta 2022 s posebnim ozirom na slovensko narodnost. RAZPRAVE IN GRADIVO: TREATIES AND DOCUMENTS: JOURNAL OF ETHNIC STUDIES 92:92 pp. 83-103., 21 p. (2024)

• Andeva, Marina; Dobos Balázs; Djordjević, Ljubica; Kuzmany, Börries; Malloy, Tove H. (eds.): Non-Territorial Autonomy: An Introduction. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland (2023), 228 p.

• Dobos Balázs: Cultural Autonomy, Safe Haven or Window-Dressing?: Institutions Maintained by Minority Self-Governments in Hungary. In: Ghencea, Flavia; Dodovski, Ivan; Smith, David J. (eds.): Realising Linguistic, Cultural and Educational Rights Through Non-Territorial Autonomy. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland (2023) pp. 155-170. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-19856-4_11

• Dobos Balázs: The Minority Self-Governments in Hungary. In: Autonomy Arrangements in the World, 2nd edition. Bolzano: EURAC Research, 2022. 39 p.

• Vizi Balázs; Dobos Balázs; Natalija, Shikova (eds.): Non-Territorial Autonomy as an Instrument for Effective Participation of Minorities. Budapest, Szkopje: Centre for Social Sciences (CSS), University American College Skopje (2021), 330 p.

• Dobos Balázs, Molnár Sansum Judit: Cultural Autonomy in Hungary: Inward or Outward Looking? Nationalities Papers, 48(2) 251-266 (2020). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/nps.2019.80
• Dobos Balázs: The Elections to Nonterritorial Autonomies of Central and South Eastern Europe. Nationalities Papers, 48(2), 289-306 (2020). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/nps.2019.1
• Dobos Balázs: A személyi elvű kisebbségi autonómiák Kelet-Közép-Európában. Budapest: Társadalomtudományi Kutatóközpont, Kalligram, (2020), 248. p. ISBN: 978-963-468-194-6
• Dobos Balázs: Between Importing and Exporting Minority Rights: The Minority Self-Governments in Hungary. In: Salat Levente, Constantin Sergiu, Osipov Alexander, Székely István Gergő (szerk.): Autonomy Arrangements around the World: A Collection of Well and Lesser Known Cases. Cluj-Napoca: The Romanian Institute for Research on National Minorities, 2014. pp. 275-298. (ISBN:978-606-8377-30-8)
• Dobos Balázs: The Role of Elections in Minority Contexts: The Hungarian Case. In: Nimni Ephraim, Osipov Alexander, Smith David J (szerk.): The Challenge of Non-Territorial Autonomy: Theory and Practice. Oxford: Peter Lang Academic Publishers, 2013. pp. 163-180. (ISBN:978-3-0343-1714-6)
• Dobos Balázs: Roma political parties in Hungary after 1989. In: Dácz Enikő (szerk.): Minderheitenfragen in Ungarn und in den Nachbarländern im 20. und 21. Jahrhundert. Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2013. pp. 279-291. (Andrássy Studien zur Europaforschung; 8.) (ISBN:978-3-8487-0779-9)
• Dobos Balázs: A kisebbség joga: Kisebbségi törvénykezés Magyarországon (1988-2006). Budapest: Argumentum - MTA Etnikai-nemzeti Kisebbségkutató Intézete, 2011. 269 p. (ISBN:978-963-446-642-0)
• Dobos Balázs: The Development and Functioning of Cultural Autonomy in Hungary. ETHNOPOLITICS 6:(3) pp. 451-469. (2007). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/17449050701487488

Research Projects

Ongoing research projects:

• The parliamentary representation of minorities in international comparison: descriptive or substantive representation? (Hungarian National Research, Development and Innovation Office, 2022-2026)
• Legal approaches to operationalize nationality and ethnicity (Hungarian National Research, Development and Innovation Office, 2020-2025. Institute for Legal Studies, principal investigator: András László Pap)

Past research projects:

• ENTAN - European Non-Territorial Autonomy Network (COST Action 18114, 2019-2023)
• The effectiveness of minority self-governance in Central and South Eastern Europe (János Bolyai Research Scholarship of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 2019-2022, ÚNKP Bolyai+ New National Excellence Program of the Ministry for Innovation and Technology, 2019-2020)
• The Internal Dynamics of Non-Territorial Autonomy Regimes in Central and South-eastern Europe: a Five-Country Comparison (Hungarian National Research, Development and Innovation Office, postdoctoral grant, 2015-2019). The Elections of Non-Territorial Autonomies in Central and South Eastern Europe: Croatia, Estonia, Hungary, Serbia and Slovenia. Electoral Database (1994-2019) (in Hungarian)
• Ethnopolitical mobilization and Roma parties in Hungary and in East Central Europe (János Bolyai Research Scholarship of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 2012-2015)
• The comparative analysis of the legal status of minorities in Central Europe (Hungary and its neighboring countries. Project between 2004-2017). Legal database (in Hungarian)

Work in Progress

• Balázs Dobos: Cultural Autonomy and Political Participation: Minority Elections in Central and Eastern Europe (Routledge Advances in Minority Studies, forthcoming in 2025)
• Balázs Dobos: The question of recognising new minorities in Hungary (Hungarian Journal of Legal Studies, forthcoming in 2025)