Réka Zsuzsánna Máthé

Réka Zsuzsánna Máthé, PhD is a senior researcher at the Mathias Corvinus Collegium, a research fellow at the European Strategy Research Institute of the National Public Service University (EUSTRAT), and an assistant professor at Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania. She obtained her PhD degree (summa cum lauda) at the University of Public Service. Within the framework of the PhD training, she studied with a scholarship at Charles University in Prague. Concommittently to her doctoral studies, she completed the program of the College of Europe, Bruges, where she graduated with a master's degree in European political science and public administration. Prior to that, she obtained a degree in the management of public institutions at the master's program jointly operated by Michigan State University and Babes-Bolyai University. She completed her higher education in Romanian, German, English and French.

Scientific (PhD) degrees

University of Public Service - Doctoral School of Public Administration - 2020 - PhD - summa cum laude

Degrees in higher education

College of Europe - Brugge - MA in European political and adminsitrative studies - 2017

Babes-Bolyai University - Michigan State University - MA in Public Administration Studies - 2015West University of Timisoara - Double BA in Communication and German language and literature - 2004

Teaching experience

Sapientia Hungarian University of Transilvania - Public health - senior lecturer - 2022 - present

University of Public Service - International security and defense policy - research fellow - 2020 - present

Mathias Corvinus Collegium - external lecturer - 2021

Corvinus University of Budapest - Public Policy and Management - external lecturer - 2017, 2018, 2019

University Babes-Bolyai - Faculty of Political, Administrative and Communication Sciences - external lecturer - 2015, 2016

Previous affiliations

Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania - senior lecturer - 2022 - present

EUSTRAT - University of Public Service - research fellow - 2020 - present

American Studies Research Center, UPS - assistant research fellow - 2018-2019

Institute for Research and Development on state and Governance - UPS - project expert - 2017-2018

Blythswood Romania - public relations manager - 2011-2014

Research projects

Working Group on Non-Governmental Organizations in Central and Eastern Europe - NISPACEE - working group assistant coordinator - 2015 - 2017

EU COST Action IS1207 “Local Reforms" - European Cooperation in Science and Technology - external collaborator - 2015-2016

Scholarships/grants

Ministry of Human Resources - 2017 - New National Excellence Programme - 2017-2018

Ministry of Human Resources/Hungarian Academy of Sciences - Balassi Research Institute - 2014-2014

Spoken languages

English - full professional proficiency

Romanian - full professional proficiency

German - professional proficiency

French - limited working proficiency

Research topics

EU political economy

The politics of sanctions

Social movements

Non-profit organizations

Memberships

International Political Science Association

membership - 2020 - present

World Interdisciplinary Network for Institutional Research - membership - 2018 - present

Featured publications

Co-creation of value through succesful diversity management among unusul partners in atypical situation: konferencia előadás,

Jenei Ágnes, Máthé Réka, Reddy Maliga, Pillay Strinivasan (2022),
Annual EGPA Conference, Lisszabon, Portugália

This paper analyzes an atypical inter-organizational collaboration aimed at providing basic needs for refugees in five transitory care centers (“aid points”) set up temporarily in Hungary, near to the Ukrainian border in the emergency situation created as a result of the outbreak of the war. The purpose is to explore enables and barriers of the collaborations took place in five care centers, from a managerial approach. As the three main actors presented in each care center very rarely work together usually, particular attention was paid to the leaders’ challenge of managing cognitive diversity during the collaboration in the field (care center) as part of an emergency / disaster management.

Civil-Society Organizations’ Capacity Building in the Local Governmental Sector: Is It Working ?: A Case Study

Máthé Réka Zsuzsánna, Hajnal György (2017),
NISPACEE JOURNAL OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION AND POLICY 10 : 1 pp. 61-80. , 20 p.

The role that a strong civil society plays in socio-economic development is a subject of major scholarly attention today. Many benefi ts from having a strong civil society are reported in the literature. Th ere is, however, no generally accepted view regarding how capacity-building eff orts can help to develop a strong civil society, especially in the Central and Eastern European countries. The purpose of this qualitative study is to understand the causal mechanisms existing between capacity-building eff orts, a strengthened civil society and socioeconomic development. Th is case study suggests that a Hungarian local government did appear to strengthen associational activities in its community. Using process tracing, the research identifi es specifi c factors that lead this village to take these uncommon steps, and it assesses the implications for civic life.