Denis Ivanov

• Assistant Lecturer at Corvinus University of Budapest

This book develops a new methodological framework for measuring the effi�ciency of regional integration and the integration profile of member states. It includes rich case studies, which offer a comparative analysis of ten integra�tions spanning four continents – the Americas, the European Union, Africa and Asia. The book shows the importance of...

As developing countries have started to host the mega-events (e.g., FIFA, Olympics), the focus has shifted toward the human rights conditions in the host country rather than the competition itself. Up to now, far too little attention has been paid to the impact of mega-events on human rights. This study aims to fill that gap by examining the relati...

Recent shifts in locations of the organization of mega events (Olympics, FIFA World Cup, Expo etc.) towards emerging countries (such as Russia, China, South Africa) led to the soaring objections among human right activists and investigative journalists with to the concerns over human right violations. We aim to understand the linkage between two ph...

This review attempts to provide pointers to some of the parallel evolution of the concept of distributive justice put forward by philosophers, political scientists, sociologists, historians, and economists. In political philosophy, debates originating in the 17th century have primarily focused on the conditions for redistribution, the definition of...

The literature connecting growing socio-economic inequality and populism as the main political consequence of it, is burgeoning. However, modern studies are often limited to one-directional models that are based on the available data and are often operationalized on a limited number of variables. This article provides an in-depth literature review...

This study revisits the drivers of populist voting in Europe, focusing on the interplay between economic insecurity and institutional trust. Specifically, it examines the degree to which the decision to vote for a populist party is driven by economic insecurity, while explicitly accounting for the moderating role of two types of institutional trust...

This paper reviews the broad literature on the concept of socio-economic inequality. It presents the debate between political philosophers and economists from an economic history perspective. In political philosophy, the concept of distributive justice is a normative principle which is closely related (although not identical) to economic inequality...