CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2010
| Author | Magyar, Mónika |
|---|---|
| Title | The Expanded Story of the Hungarian Quota Proposals of 2007 |
| Summary | This thesis explores a more comprehensive story of the Hungarian quota proposals of 2007 than its last phase, the outsider campaign which was known to the general public before. I use social network analysis and oral history method to understand the formation process, and to identify the involved actors and their motivations. I find that the proposers, Sándor and Magyar initiated the quota connected to their political motivations, i.e. electoral considerations. Although the proposals failed in the Parliament, I argue that the misperceptions about the vote bringing ability of the quota led to a successful awareness-raising campaign. This campaign additionally reveals some underlying reasons of women NGOs’ weak lobbying capacity, such as their low degree of organization and their civil activists’ keeping a distance from party-politics. I finally reason that the civic involvement in this case shows opportunities for co-operation along issue-based politics and feminist-rethinking of politics within women NGOs’ alternative public sphere. |
| Supervisor | Andrea Peto |
| Department | Gender Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2010/magyar_monika.pdf |
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