CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2010
| Author | Lapos, Péter |
|---|---|
| Title | Can politics really be given back to the people? An analysis of Green parties' organizational developments in the Hungarian context |
| Summary | T h e organizational structure of Green parties reflects their attitude to political participation and aims at raising political consciousness, and contributing to a greater political knowledge of both their party membership and citizens. On the other hand, Green parties also have to adopt themselves to the national structure of political opportunities. The structural arrangements of the new Hungarian Green party LMP (Lehet Más a Politika) shows its relative integration within the political system as well as the effect of national political culture along the conception of political participation. In this thesis I will analyze the factors that affect the interplay between the two different set of expectations; the logic of constituency representation and the logic of vote maximization. In my research I found that the new challenges of parliamentary politics following the sudden electoral breakthrough, the ensuing expansion in size and the growing internal tensions has put LMP under significant pressure, pushing the party towards a fast organizational change. I will argue that even though Greens parties compromise their original goals during their political development, they keep their key characteristics that clearly distinguish them from the established traditional parties. |
| Supervisor | Enyedi Zsolt |
| Department | Political Science MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2010/lapos_peter.pdf |
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