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: Cultural Autonomy and Political Participation. Minority Elections in Central and Eastern Europe. London, Routledge, 2025. p. 280. ISBN 9781041091608. DOI: 10.4324/9781003649168 (Routledge Advances in Minority Studies)

• Dobos Balázs, Halász Iván: Úton az elismerés felé. Régi és új kisebbségek Kelet-Közép-Európában. Budapest, L’Harmattan, TK JTI, 2025. p. 186. ISBN 978-963-646-410-3

• Pap András László, Chronowski Nóra, Dobos Balázs, Kovács Szitkay Eszter, Nagy Noémi (szerk.): Faj, etnicitás, nemzeti hovatartozás, régi és új kisebbségek. A kategorizáció jogi és gyakorlati dilemmái. Budapest, L’Harmattan, TK JTI, 2025. p. 244. ISBN 978-963-646-233-8

• Pap András László, Chronowski Nóra, Dobos Balázs, Kovács Szitkay Eszter, Nagy Noémi (eds.): Identity, Belonging, and the Law. Paris, L’Harmattan, 2025. p. 192. ISBN 978-2-336-54402-1

• 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)

• Dobos Balázs: The question of recognising new minorities in Hungary. HUNGARIAN JOURNAL OF LEGAL STUDIES 65:4 pp. 432-453., 22 p. (2024) DOI: https://doi.org/10.1556/2052.2024.00557

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

• Vizi Balázs; Dobos Balázs; Natalija, Shikova (eds.): Non-Territorial Autonomy as an Instrument for Effective Participation of Minorities. Budapest, Skopje: 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: 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
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Research Projects

Ongoing research projects:

• The parliamentary representation of minorities in international comparison: descriptive or substantive representation? (Hungarian National Research, Development and Innovation Office, 2022-2027)
• Legal approaches to operationalize nationality and ethnicity (Hungarian National Research, Development and Innovation Office, 2020-2026. 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

• Dobos Balázs, M. Balázs Ágnes: Who Do Spokespersons Speak For? The Relationship of Minority Spokespersons and MP to their Kin-States in Hungary (2014–2026). Treatises and Documents. Journal of Ethnic Studies (forthcoming)
• Dobos Balázs: The Spatial Features of Minority Participation at the Hungarian Parliamentary Elections, 2014-2026. Tér és Társadalom/Space and Society. (forthcoming)
• Dobos Balázs: A nemzetiségi részvétel jellemzői a 2026-os országgyűlési választásokon. Parlamenti Szemle. (forthcoming)