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

该奖项是通过探索性的小额赠款支持的 研究机制。 该项目记录了2004年通过谈判向民主过渡的情况。 匈牙利. 研究人员关注的是， 执政的共产党与之达成协议， 反对党和工会的代表， 竞争性政党的条件，有争议的 选举和议会治理。 这些密集的圆桌会议 谈判，涉及数百次谈判会议（在 全体会议、委员会会议和小组委员会会议）， 从1989年6月13日到9月17日。 要彻底重建谈判进程， 与主要参与者的访谈， 社会科学家观察了这一过程。 这个项目涉及 使用现有的录音带，会议记录和其他摘要， 各种谈判会议，以及深入采访， 那些参与这个过程的人。 将所有材料 被编目和存档以供其他感兴趣的社会科学家使用 研究匈牙利的民主转型 这个项目应该大大增加我们对一个 民主政治制度，代议机构和 公共领域的重要性。

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.