The Hungarian Patient : : Social Opposition to an Illiberal Democracy / / ed. by Jon Van Til, Péter Krasztev.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Central European University Press eBook-Package 2014-2015
• MitwirkendeR: Bajomi-Lázár, Péter,; Boris, János,; Bozóki, András,; Bánkuti, Miklós,; Grajczjár, István,; Halmai, Gábor,; Jarábik, Balázs,; Juhász, Joseph B.,; Krasztev, Péter,; Kóczé, Angéla,; Kövér, Ágnes,; Nagy, Gergely,; Petőcz, György,; Scheppele, Kim Lane,; Szabó, Máté,; Tóth, András,; Van Til, Jon,; Vári, György,; Zontea, Alexandra,
• HerausgeberIn: Krasztev, Péter,; Til, Jon Van,
• Place / Publishing House: Budapest ;, New York : : Central European University Press, , [2022]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (412 p.)

This book presents compelling essays by leading Hungarian and foreign authors on the variety of social movements and parties that seek influence and power in a Hungary mired in deep and manifold crisis. The main question the volume tries to answer is: what can we expect after the fall of the semi-authoritarian Orbán regime in Hungary. Who will be the new players? What are their backgrounds? What are their political and social ideals, intentions and methods? The studies in the first section of the volume provide the reader with the reasons of the emergence of these new movements: a deep analysis of the historical, political and cultural background of the current situation. The second part contains essays and case studies which challenge the movements and parties involved to look beyond their current ineffectiveness, and to find ways of meeting the challenges that would allow them to exercise responsible and effective leadership in their time and place. This collection would be the first of the kind both in the field of movement theory/history and democracy studies because it reflects on very recent developments not researched in the international scholarly literature. One would not be able to understand contemporary Hungarian society without reading it before the 2014 elections.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Diagnosis -- 1 Broken Democracy, Predatory State, and Nationalist Populism -- 2 Hungary’s Illiberal Turn: Disabling the Constitution -- 3 Enhancing the Effectiveness of Basic Rights Protection in the Ombudsman’s Activity: Toward a European Type of Ombudsman System -- Symptoms -- 4 Party Colonization of the Media: The Case of Hungary -- 5 Captured by State and Church: Civil Society in Democratic Hungary -- 6 Political Empowerment or Political Incarceration of Romani? The Hungarian Version of the Politics of Dispossession -- 7 Timike and the Sweetie Pies: Fragmented Discourses about Women in Hungarian Public Life -- 8 The Rise of the Radical Right in Hungary -- Immune Reaction -- 9 Social Responses to the “Hybridization” of the Political System: The Case of Hungary in the Central and Eastern European Context -- 10 The Road of the Hungarian Solidarity Movement -- 11 Milla: A Suspended Experiment -- 12 The Rise of the LMP Party and the Spirit of Ecological Movements -- 13 The Hungarian Student Network: A Counterculture in the Making -- 14 Increasingly Radical Interventions: The New Wave of Political Art in Hungary -- Life Perspectives -- 15 From Belarus to Hungary: Lessons from a Traditionalist Revolution -- 16 Dark VikTory -- 17 Democratic Resurgence in Hungary: Challenges to Oppositional Movement (An Open-Ended Conclusion) -- Contributors -- Index