Kormányok és ciklusok
Governments and Cycles

Summary/Abstract: The aim of the study is to contribute to the pool of rhetorical approaches to parliamentary government. It attempts to show that not only the agency and the parliamentary form of knowledge is what can be conceived of in terms of rhetoric but the logic of parliamentary government as well. In terms of rhetoric, parliamentary government is structured according to the logic of pars pro toto, that is, the trope of the synecdoche. The particularity of the parties in majority becomes universality in the process of government formation, a whole which is always put forward but which cannot become totalized permanently neither rhetorically nor politically. The logic of al ternation, the temporal separation of power which are distinct features of parliamentary government leads to a constant contradiction: the surpassing of the particularity of the parties needs to be stated again and again, however it is a necessary but impossible universality. This universality is formed by means of rhetoric but because of the very logic of political language a relapse always follows from this. The study examines these questions in relation to the debates on the examples of government formation in Hungary after the transition.

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