ELITIZMUS ÉS POPULIZMUS, A KÉT JÓ BARÁT
Umut Korkut: Liberalization Challenges in Hungary: Elitism, Progressivism, and Populism. New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
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Umut Korkut: Liberalization Challenges in Hungary: Elitism, Progressivism, and Populism. New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
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The article investigates the effects of career-related variables tying national representatives to Single Member Districts (SMDs) on representing local issues in parliament under mixed-member electoral rules. Mandate type, SMD candidacy and nominal level legislative experience will explain the number of locally relevant written questions. Permitting multiple candidacies, three different mandate types, considerable variation in terms of career consistency, and twenty years of experience with applying mixed electoral rules, Hungary is a convenient choice to model system effects. The main lesson from the data is that asking locally relevant questions is considered a tool rather for unsuccessful SMD candidates to represent local aspects in the legislature than SMD representatives within the period under investigation (2010–2013). Furthermore, members with more significant SM D experience will also engage in local questioning especially if they hold nominal level positions.
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The study examines whether political infl uences can be identifi ed in the operation of the Hungarian Constitutional Court between 2010 and 2014, when the governing coalition had a two-thirds majority in Parliament. It analyses how far the political orientations of the constitutional judges influenced their decision-making in this period, comparing the political preferences, attitudes and ideologies of the individual judges to the positions of the political camp which nominated them.
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Why is the situation of the freedom of the press worse in Central and Eastern Europe in general than in Western Europe? Why does the situation of the freedom of the press differ in the different Central and East European countries and why in various periods? I try to find an answer to these questions by exploring the interrelationships between party systems and media systems. When studying the first question I argue that the young parties of young democracies miss the sources necessary to party building and party organisation which is substituted by the colonisation and exploitation of the state and the media. The occupation of the media explains why the situation of the freedom of the press is worse in general in the East than in the West. I explain the variations of the freedom of the press that can be observed in space and time within the Central and East European region by the various patterns of the colonization of the media: the more centralised the decision-making mechanisms of the governing parties are the greater is the probability of the one-party colonization of the media, and the more decentralised are their decisionmaking mechanisms the larger is the probability of multi-party colonization. The one-party colonization of the media restricts the freedom of the press more than its multi-party colonization. In other words: in the post-communist context the weaker the government is the stronger the media would be.
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The article investigates the relationship between the work of Thucydides and political realism understood as polit ical theor y (not as the theor y of I R). By addressing some general problems in reading Thucydides, I argue that the conventional reading of the Melian Dialogue (i.e. as the justification of the thesis “might makes right”) is untenable. However, if we ask the question con cerning the relationship between Thucydides and political realism differently, a “moderate realist” reading seems plausible, meaning that Thucydides’s work is an example of realism, but not in the sense of conventional interpretation. To un- derpin this thesis, at the end of the article I try to elaborate some linkages between The Peloponnesian War and contemporary realist political theory.
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Election is perhaps the most widespread institution of universal nature of modern democracies inseparable from the democratic political systems. The election is the general technique of the transfer of power, the selection of the political elite and the taking into task of leaders and their removal, and in this sense it is not only a specific mediating mechanism between the individual – community and society – and political power but it is also legitimating the decision-makers and the political system. The extent of accepting and making the authority accepted largely depends on the proportionateness of the election and to what extent is the party preferences and political articulation of the society reflected in the elected body. Hence measuring the proportionateness of the election systems is also a basic task. This paper presents the most important indices of proportionateness. Next it presents the election results of Canada between 1935 and 2011 and maps the changes in the differences of the proportionateness indices. With this we wish to point out that understanding the indices of proportionateness is at least as important to the proper analysis and assessment of any election system as the power relations among the parties figuring in the given system or knowing the election formulae transforming valid votes into mandates.
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Dorothee Bohle–Greskovits Béla: Capitalist Diversity on Europe’s Periphery. Cornell Studies in Political Economy, Cornell University Press, Ithaca, 2012, 304 s.
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Xavier Vence: Crisis y fracaso de la Unión Europea neoliberal: una alternativa soberanista y democrática. Editorial Eneida, 2014
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