"When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind; it may be the beginning of knowledge, but you have scarcely, in your thoughts, advanced to the stage of science, whatever the matter may be."
Lord Kelvin

Publications

Mitigation, Whitewashing, Obfuscation and Manipulation

Presentations, Publications

 

December 14, 2023

 

Tóth, I.J. & Varga, J. (2023). Mitigation, Whitewashing, Obfuscation, and Manipulation. Content analysis of articles on the Russian aggression in Ukraine during the first 15 days of the war, based on publications of four Hungarian news portals and the BBC.  Budapest: CRCB.

Presentation at the Budapest Science Meetup in the Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences read more

The New Trends of Corruption Risk in Hungarian Public Procurement from January 1998 to July 2023

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October 17, 2023

 

The New Trends of Corruption Risk in Hungarian Public Procurement from January 1998 to July 2023

 

In 2023, corruption risk increased for public contracts won by crony companies, while it decreased for those won by ordinary Hungarian companies with no political ties. This suggests that, following the EU’s measures to restore the rule of law in Hungary, the advantage of crony companies in the Hungarian public procurement market actually increased. They have won public contracts with read more

The Role of Ukrainian and Russian Sources in the First Articles on the Makiivka Missile Attack

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March 13, 2023

 

Tóth, I. J. and Hámori, Á. 2023. The Role of Ukrainian and Russian Sources in the First Articles on the Makiivka Missile Attack: A content analysis of articles from six leading news portals (BBC, CNN, The Guardian, The New York Times, Reuters, and The Washington Post). CRCB Research Notes: 2023:2. Budapest: read more

Fourteen Graphs and Two Tables on the New Trends of Corruption Risk in the Hungarian Public Procurement 2005-2022

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February 7, 2023

 

This  CRCB Statistical Quick Report shows the trends of corruption risk in Hungarian public procurement from 2005 to 2022 through fourteen graphs and two tables. The report includes information based on a contract-level dataset with full-year 2022 data. The CRCB’s aim with this report is to inform the EU taxpayers (especially the Hungarian ones) within T+45 days on corruption risk trends in Hungary in read more