Dessewffy, Asbóth, Tisza. Fontolva haladás és demokrácia konzervatív szemszögből
Dessewffy, Asbóth, Tisza. Moderate Progression and Democracy from a Conservative Perspective

Summary/Abstract: The study examines whether, by analogy to the widely used notion of liberal democracy, such an idea exists in Hungarian political thought which bears the marks of the conservative and the democratic worldviews at the same time. In other words, does conservative democracy exist? According to the hypothesis, moderate progression can be regarded as a specific variant of conservative democracy. The study has a three-tier structure. Firstly, I clarify my understanding of Hungarian conservative tradition. Secondly, I show the conservative character of moderate progression. Finally, I point out that the representatives of moderate progression consider democracy, under certain circumstances, acceptable, even supportable. To prove this, the argument draws on Aurél Dessewffy’s, János Asbóth’s and István Tisza’s works.

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