Presentations:

5/ Changing the constitutional set-up: the legal foundations of democracy

Compulsory reading:

Renwick, Alan. Modelling Multiple Goals: Electoral System Preferences in Hungary in 1989. Europe-Asia Studies. Vol. 57. No 7 (Nov., 2005). pp. 995-1019

Recommended readings:

Lijphart, Arend. Constitutional Choices for New Democracies. Journal of Democracy 1991, Vol. 2, No. 1 (winter). pp. 72-84.

Bánkuti, Miklós and Gabor Halmai and Kim Lane Scheppele. Hungary’s Illiberal Turn: Disabling the Constitution. In: Péter Krasztev and Jon Van Til (eds.) The Hungarian Patient. 2015, CEU Press

6/ Marketization of the economy: privatization, deregulation, liberalization

Compulsory reading:

Appel, Hilary, and Mitchell A. Orenstein. From Triumph to Crisis: Neoliberal Economic Reform in Postcommunist Countries. Chapter 1., Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2018.

Recommended reading:

Bozoki, Andras: Hopes and Illusions: The Farewell to Idealism in Hungarian Politics. Zeitgeschichte 36(6): 393-402 (November 2009) https://www.researchgate.net/publication/292352269_Hopes_and_Illusions_The_Farewell_to_Idealism_in_Hungarian_Politics