Pál Susánszky is a Post-Doctoral Researcher at the Centre for Social Sciences (Hungarian Academy of Sciences Centre of Excellence). His main research interests are comparative political sociology, protest mobilization in democratic and non-democratic regimes, mobilization and demobilization processes, state repression. His works appeared in, among others, International Journal of Comparative Sociology, Post-Soviet Affairs, Democratization, East European Politics or Rationality and Society and numerous Hungarian journals and books.