Research interests and current research:

• Institutionalized interdependencies between economic and political decision making in partystate systems.
• Structural similarities and dissimilarities between different party-state systems.
• Development and institutionalization of the new Hungarian power structure and comparative studies on this topic in Eastern Europe and China;
• Comparative theory the structure, operation and transformation of party-states systems, specifics of Chinese transformation;
• Impact of global crisis on system transformation in China and its spatial disparities; spatial disparities impact of global crisis on migration and institutionalizing policies (2009-2010); Spatial disparities of the impact of stimulus package in China on migration and on the dynamics of economic transformation (2010-2016);
• Common systemic ground behind the disparities of European and Chinese transformations;
• Overinvestment and Economic Overheating in China after the Global Crisis: An Interpretation with a Comparative Model on Communist Systems;
• Dynamics of anti-corruption campaigns and power redistribution in China;
• Opening up the black box: transformation specifics through enterprise entry and exit in China and its relation to overinvestment;
• Regional specifics of transformation in China through enterprise entry and exit and their relation to overinvestment;
• Power and corruption: how to institutionalize authoritarian power and corruption in a captured democracy? The case of Hungary since 2010 (research in progress);
• The spatial agglomeration of network and market enterprises in China), is being prepared in cooperation with Balázs Lengyel and Shengyu Liu to the journal PLOS ONE (work in progress);
• Social and power connotations in the reactions to the pandemics (COVID-19) world-wide.