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The Centre for Social Sciences (CSS) Budapest is the flagship research institute of social sciences in Hungary. It conducts disciplinary and interdisciplinary research in the areas of sociology, political science, computational social science, network science, minority studies and legal studies using the latest scientific methods and high-quality research data. The Centre for Social Sciences Budapest is dedicated to building collaborative, trans-disciplinary research networks. Our mission is to foster excellence and innovation in the social sciences and provide impactful research to solve contemporary social challenges. Research areas include: the responsiveness and effectiveness of the legal system social innovation and sustainable development labour research: digitalisation, automation, and platform work political communication political behaviour and elections minority integration, participation, and representation artificial intelligence the family political regimes and public policy Hungary in the European legal order transnationalism and migration nationalism and nation-building social integration