Zoltán Fábián

Biography

Zoltán Fábián is senior professor  at TÁRKI Social Research Institute. He was a fellow of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and became a candidate of sociology in 1999. His dissertation was published in a book titled Tekintélyelvűség és elÅ‘ítéletek (Prejudices and authoritarianism). He is the author and co-author of a number of articles and book chapters in the field of social psychology, social structure and political behavior. In 2003 he was the coordinator of a large-scale information society monitoring study in Hungary. In this project a consortium of different research agencies and think tanks provided consultancy to the Ministry of Information Society and Telecommunication to develop a new Strategy for the Hungarian Information Society. The consortium created and monitored the benchmarking indicators of the new Strategy, and produced e-Europe indicators. He coordinated the social and market research on the introduction of digital terrestrial television platform (DVB-T) in Hungary in 2002. This research was sponsored by Antenna Hungária broadcasting company. Fábián has been one of the coordinators of World Internet Project (WIP), Hungary between 2001 and 2007. He contributed to a longitudinal survey on income and labor market dynamics, the Hungarian Household Panel (HHP). He has also been a consultant to the World Bank as a HHP database expert in 1998. Between 2000 and 2004 he was the Hungarian coordinator of the CHER (Consortium of Household Panels for European Socio-economic Research) project which was financially supported by the European Union in the Fifth Framework Program. This project was aimed at harmonizing and integrating numerous national household panel studies and the European Community Household Panel into a common comparative database. Between 2005 and 2007 he was the president of the Political Behaviour Section of the Hungarian Sociological Association. He was a member of the Sociology Subcommittee of the Hungarian Accreditation Committee (2004-2006). He was awarded by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (1994, 1998) and by the Hungarian Sociological Association (1998).

Research Interest

Political Behaviour and Income and labor market dynamics.