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SUMMARY:Hungary and its "System of National Cooperation"
DESCRIPTION:The idea of the meeting is as old as the initiative of the seco
 nd Orban government to replace a republican regime with the so-called "Syst
 em of National Cooperation" (SNC). Following five years of construction and
  operation, SNC awaits a comprehensive assessment by social scientists in- 
 and outside Hungary. Our conference wants to contribute to the analysis of 
 the emerging societal system by bringing together empirical researchers and
  "model builders", leading representatives of various social science discip
 lines.\n\nIn the 1990s, Hungary was widely celebrated as one of the most su
 ccessful countries of the post-communist transformation. Today, she serves 
 as an example for an „inverse transition“ marked by new authoritarianism, s
 tate interventionism and the like, and the SNC is increasingly considered a
 s one of the prototypes of the potential „new right“ regimes in Europe. It 
 is not only the representatives of international politics who are surprised
  by a rapid decline of liberal democracy and market economy in Hungary, but
  also social scientists are desperately searching for explanations for the 
 alarming changes in political, economic and socio-cultural paradigms. To pu
 t it simply, how did it become possible that an EU member state shows consp
 icuous similarities to Putin’s Russia? Currently, there are many more distu
 rbing questions than reassuring answers.   \n\nThe participants of the conf
 erence will be asked to answer the following questions:  \n\n1. Is SNC auth
 oritarian, populist, illiberal, statist, nationalist, dictatorial, mafiotic
 , etc.? In search of proper adjective(s)  \n\n2. A system or an experiment:
  what does empirical research tell us about the (in)coherence of SNC?\n\n3.
  A cultural revolution and/or a power game: can the history of ideas help?\
 n\n4. Is SNC unique? Looking for Eastern European analogies \n\nThe confere
 nce will start with a panel discussion on the troubled relationship between
  the European Union and the Hungarian government. The subsequent sessions o
 f the conference will follow the logic of the above-mentioned questions. Th
 e keynote address to the conference will be delivered by Stephen Holmes on 
 the concept of illiberal democracy. \n\nThe participants will submit a brie
 f position paper (max 2,000 words) by May 31, 2015. We plan both English- a
 nd Hungarian-language publications in journals (Transit, 2000), and the pre
 paration of an edited volume in English.  \n\n \n\nPreliminary Program \n\n
 Friday, June 26 \n\n9:00 – 10:30  \n\nMorning Session 1 \n\nHungary and the
  EU (panel discussion)\n\nKinga Göncz, Ulrike Lunacek, Jan-Werner Müller\n\
 n \n\n10:30 – 11:00 \n\nCoffee Break\n\n11:00 – 13:00 \n\nMorning Session 2
  \n\n \n\nSNC: in search of a definition\n\nBalint Magyar, Kim Lane Scheppe
 le\n\n \n\n13:00 – 14:00\n\nLunch\n\n \n\n14:00 – 16:00\n\nAfternoon Sessio
 n 1\n\nSNC: empirical approaches I.\n\nJanos Köllö, Attila Melegh, Peter Mi
 halyi, David Stark\n\n \n\n16:00 – 16:30 \n\nCoffee Break\n\n \n\n16:30 – 1
 8:30 \n\nAfternoon Session 2\n\n \n\nSNC: empirical approaches II.\n\nJanos
  Matyas Kovacs, Virag Molnar, Renata Uitz, Violetta Zentai\n\n \n\n19:00 \n
 \nKeynote address\n\nStephen Holmes on illiberal democracy\n\n \n\n20:30 \n
 \nReception\n\nSaturday, June 27\n\n \n\n9:00 – 10:30  \n\nMorning Session 
 1\n\nSNC: Historical analogies\n\nGabor Egry, Gergely Romsics, Balazs Trenc
 senyi, \n\n \n\n10:30 – 11:00\n\nCoffee Break\n\n \n\n11:00 – 13:00 \n\nMor
 ning Session 2 \n\nSNC: Eastern European analogies\n\nIvan Krastev, Radosla
 w Markowski, Silvia Marton, Julia Richers\n\n \n\n13:00\n\nLunch\n\n \n\nEn
 d of conference\n\n \n\nParticipants \n\nHungarians \n\nGabor Egry, Institu
 te of Political History, Budapest \n\nKinga Göncz, former minister for fore
 ign affairs, Budapest\n\nJanos Matyas Kovacs, IWM, Vienna, Eötvös Lorand Un
 iversity, Budapest\n\nJanos Köllö, Institute of Economics, Hungarian Academ
 y of Sciences, Budapest\n\nBalint Magyar, former minister of education, Bud
 apest\n\nAttila Melegh, Institute of Demography, Budapest\n\nPeter Mihalyi,
  Institute of Economics Budapest\n\nVirag Molnar, New School for Social Res
 earch, New York\n\nGergely Romsics (?), Hungarian Cultural Center, New York
 \n\nBalazs Trencsenyi, Central European University, Budapest\n\nRenata Uitz
 , Central European University, Budapest\n\nVioletta Zentai (?), Central Eur
 opean University, Budapest\n\n \n\nNon-Hungarians\n\nStephen Holmes, New Yo
 rk University \n\nIvan Krastev, IWM, Vienna, Centre for Liberal Strategies,
  Sofia \n\nUlrike Lunacek, Austrian Greens, Brussels/Vienna\n\nSilvia Marto
 n (?), University of Bucharest\n\nRadoslav Markowski, Institute of Politica
 l Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw\n\nJan-Werner Müller, Princet
 on University\n\nJulia Richers: University of Bern\n\nKim Lane Scheppele (?
 ): Princeton University\n\nDavid Stark, Columbia University, New York
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