Articles by Katinka Linnamäki

April 10, 2026

How Péter Magyar is disrupting Hungary’s polarised political landscape 

Katinka Linnamäki
In this year’s election campaign, argue Katinka Linnamäki and Emilia Palonen, Orbán is facing a formidable, new force. Emerging from the Fidesz cadres in 2023, Péter Magyar launched his attack on Orbán. He has since managed to avoid many of the pitfalls of polarisation that have favoured Orbán previously 
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Katinka Linnamäki
PhD Candidate, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Helsinki

Katinka has a background in Gender Studies (University of Vienna) and Philology (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest).

Her research interests are right-wing populism and gender politics in Hungary, feminist activities, and possible ways of emancipation and resistance.

Her doctoral thesis is organised around the concept of hegemony, the question of what role gender and familialism plays in hegemony building, and how nationalism, populism, and gender are related.

During her PhD, she has been working with the Helsinki Hub on Emotions, Populism and Polarisation (HEPPsinki) in cooperation with the Academy of Finland-funded research project Whirl of Knowledge on the projects Cultural Populism in European Polarised Politics and Societies, which investigates the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on hegemonic articulations, and Now-Time, Us Space: Hegemonic Mobilizations in Central and Eastern Europe, which focuses on the role of football and stadiums in illiberal identity building.

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