The Centre for Political Communications Research (PKK) was established in the Institute for Political Science of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (IPS of HAS) in 2005. The PKK carries out research in the following fields:

• political campaigns
• governmental communication
• communication and civil society
• electronic democracy
• the relation of politics and mass communication
• political marketing and public relations
• political images
• the European Union as a public sphere

Our aim is to carry out analyses in the above fields on a strictly scientific basis. Our work is mainly comprised of empirical research, but we carry out theoretical research as well.

Three colleagues are employed in the IPS, and thus count as permanent colleagues of the PKK: Zsolt Boda, Balázs Kiss and Zsuzsanna Mihályffy. Several colleagues, however, take part in our work for just one or two projects.

The Research Centre edits the Political Communications book series, published by L´Harmattan.