Gábor Török (political scientist)


Gábor Török is a Hungarian political scientist and historian, associate professor at the Institute of Political Science of the Corvinus University of Budapest.

Biography

Gábor Török was born in Szombathely on August 11, 1971. He graduated from Nagy Lajos Secondary School, located in Szombathely, in 1989. He received his diplomas from the Eötvös Loránd University in history and political theory, both with distinction. In 1997, he placed first in the National Academic Student Conference. He received the Pro Scientia gold-medal in 1998 for excellence in studies and preeminent academic achievement. He earned his PhD summa cum laude from the ELTE’s Faculty of Law and Political Sciences in 2005.
He teaches at the Corvinus University of Budapest since 1997. Currently, he is the head of the Center for Political Analysis at the universities Institute of Political Science. He is an Associate Professor since 2009. He was awarded a certificate of merit by the rector of the university in 2005 in appreciation of his teaching and research work. He received the „ Teacher of the year” award in 2008. He is a visiting lecturer at the Zsigmond Király College, the Delta Political School, Századvég Political School as well as the Academy of Drama and Film.
Török was elected to the local representative body in Aszófő during the Hungarian local elections in 2010. He planned to run as an independent candidate in the parliamentary by-election at Veszprém in early 2015, however, following the outbreak of the so-called "Orbán–Simicska media war", stepped down.

Works

He specializes in the analysis of the political system following the regime change, as well as in political and strategic analysis; wrote his doctoral dissertation on the topic of political agendas. He was a writer, co-writer or editor of eight books, of which two are widely used university text-books in Hungary. He was elected the secretary-general of the Hungarian Political Association for three years respectively in the years 2000 and 2003. Member of the presidium of the association since 2006.

Main publications