Civic Participation in Hungary, Part 1
Civic Participation in Hungary, Part 1

Summary/Abstract: The aim of this paper is to analyse the state of civil society in Hungary and thus tooffer an insight into the theory of civil society and civic engagement. Firstly, the process of polit-ical transition and the formation of civil society in Hungary is discussed. The next section givesan overview of the legal status of civil society institutions. Then an attempt is made to presentcomplicated relationships between politics and civil society in Hungary. The article addresses themethodology of the empirical research conducted by the author. Given the collected researchmaterial and the conducted empirical research, the paper was divided into two parts.

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