A pártok parlamentesedése Magyarországon (1989-1991)
The paper deals with the emergence of the Hungarian party system as the central process of the democratic transition. (This process has been analyzed in an East Central European context and based on a South European comparison.) The author states that the emergence of the Hungarian party system can be basically explained by the wellknown Lipset–Rokkan hypothesis but completed with two other, historical hypotheses of Central European character.
First, the emergence of the Hungarian party system has to be seen not as a democratization, but a re-democratization process, in which the continuity of the political sub-cultures contrasts with the dominating discontinuity of the party organizations. (This is the way to describe the three generations of the new parties and their natural selection by the general elections as the start for their recent parliamentization process.) Second, there has always been in Hungary an external power centre which has forcefully influenced internal party structure. This time, in the democratic transition, the external influence appears as the Europeanization process which sets standards and norms also for the emerging party system.