CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2014
| Author | Szücs, Luca |
|---|---|
| Title | The Transformation of a Hungarian Social Movement into a Political Organization: The Case of Milla |
| Summary | In this thesis, I explore why and how one of the biggest social movements in the recent history of Hungary ceased to exist. Milla successfully mobilized masses against the right wing government between December 2010 and October 2012. As a result of its mobilizing capability against the right wing government and its influential brand, political actors wanted to make a coalition with Milla in order to channel its force in the formal political arena for the 2014 parliamentary elections. Through semi-structured interviews that I conducted with group members, I show how, in addition to external factors such as the emergence of political parties as alliances, the outcome of Milla was shaped by internal factors, such the malfunction of the organization, the lack of transparency in decision making process, the lack of clear conceptual vision and therefore strategy. My approach contributes to the understanding that internal and external factors are interdependent and mutually constitute each other; therefore it is impossible to study them separately in relation to the outcome of movements. |
| Supervisor | prof. Dorit Geva; prof. Jean-Louis Fabiani |
| Department | Sociology MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2014/szucs_luca.pdf |
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