SGER: A Negotiated Transition to Democracy: Data Collection for an Archive

该奖项由探索性研究小额赠款机制支持。这个项目记录了匈牙利通过谈判向民主过渡的过程。研究人员专注于史无前例的谈判，在谈判中，执政的共产党与反对党和工会的代表达成协议，为竞争性政党、竞争性选举和议会治理创造条件。这些密集的圆桌谈判从1989年6月13日至9月17日进行，包括数百次讨价还价会议(全体会议、委员会会议和小组委员会会议)。完全重建谈判进程需要与主要参与者面谈，并辅之以观察这一进程的社会科学家的报告。该项目涉及使用现有的各种讨价还价会议的磁带录音、会议记录和其他摘要，以及对参与谈判进程的人进行深入访谈。所有材料都将被编目和存档，以供其他对研究匈牙利向民主过渡感兴趣的社会科学家使用。该项目将大大增加我们对如何建立一个具有代议制机构和重要公共领域的民主政治制度的理解。

This award is supported through the Small Grants for Exploratory Research mechanism. This project documents the negotiated transition to democracy in Hungary. The researchers focus on the unprecedented negotiations in which the ruling communist party reached agreements with representatives of opposition parties and trade unions to establish the conditions for competitive political parties, contested elections, and parliamentary governance. These intensive roundtable negotiations, involving several hundred bargaining sessions (in plenary, committee, and subcommittee meetings), were conducted from June 13th to September 17th, 1989. A complete reconstruction of the negotiating process requires interviews with the main participants supplemented by reports from social scientists who observed the process. This project involves the use of existing tape recordings, minutes, and other summaries of various bargaining sessions, as well as in-depth interviews with those who participated in the process. All materials will be cataloged and archived for use by other social scientists interested in studying the transition to democracy in Hungary. The project should add considerably to our understanding of how a democratic political system with representative institutions and a vital public sphere is constructed.