Government and Politics in Hungary

The author provides a historical overview of Hungarian politics and analyses the main political actors, constitution, electoral system, parliament and political parties of Hungary. As such, the first objective is to survey the most important institutions of the political and governmental systems and the cultural and behavioural characteristics of Hungarian politics. The second is to provide the reader with a clear understanding of the two way relationship between cultural-behavioural and constitutional-institutional levels of politics in Hungary. From these two objectives, the book challenges many stereotypes of post-communist political literature and reveals why Hungarian politics does not fit into many of the generalisations of contemporary political science.