The survey-based research led by Nikosz Fokasz on the credit crisis and social innovation is now available as a collection in the RDC. Two of CSS HAS's researchers participated in the study. The aim of MTA-ELTE Peripato Comparative Social Dynamics Research Group was to contribute to the analysis of the social consequences of the credit crisis in 2008 with a comparative analysis of the Greek and the Hungarian cases. As part of this research, a survey was conducted in May 2014. The purpose of the face-to-face and the online data collection was to reveal how social initiatives manifested in voter behavior and to show the reactions of the civil society.