The strange death of ‘civil society’ in post‐communist Hungary
- 1 March 1997
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics
- Vol. 13 (1) , 41-63
- https://doi.org/10.1080/13523279708415331
Abstract
In many respects the failure to develop and strengthen civil initiatives and popular participation, together with the failure to create an active and independent civil society, represents a new, post‐communist ‘betrayal by the intellectuals’. The latter have not openly rejected the concept of ‘civil society’, but they have sought to appropriate it, redefining it to refer to their own activities and associations, and thus monopolizing its use to legitimize their own behaviour.Keywords
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- Participation and transition: Can the civil society project survive in Hungary?Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics, 1997