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

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-au...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Central European University Press eBook-Package 2014-2015
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Place / Publishing House:Budapest ;, New York : : Central European University Press, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (412 p.)
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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