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The socio-economic and political transformations in Hungary had already begun in the 1980s and the historical turning point of 1989–90 signified the culmination of this incremental process, as well as the start of a new democratization-cum-marketization process. Hungary was an early starter, along with Poland, and despite all turning-points, a strong continuity still connects the reform processes of the 1980s with the democratization processes in the 1990s; a strong political stability characterizes the whole period because of (1) the constitution passed in 1989–90; (2) the strong prime ministerial government; and (3) the presence of the same six parties elected to the parliament in both free elections.
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See S. Huntington, The Third Wave: Democratization in the Late Twentieth Century (Norman and London: University of Oklahoma Press, 1991) pp. 209–10.
For a more detailed analysis of political developments, see the Hungarian chapters in: A. Agh (ed.), The Emergence of the East Central European Parliaments: The First Steps (Budapest: Hungarian Centre for Democracy Studies [HCDS], 1994)
and A. Agh and S. Kurtan (eds), Democratization and Europeanization in Hungary: The First Parliament, 1990–1994 (Budapest: HCDS, 1995).
We have dealt with the emergence of social actors, trade unions and business interest associations, in detail in A. Agh and Gabriella Ilonszki (eds), Parliaments and Interest Associations in Central Europe: The Second Steps (Budapest: Hungarian Centre for Democracy Studies, 1996).
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Agh, A. (2000). Hungary: in the midst of systemic change. In: Kostecki, W., Żukrowska, K., Góralczyk, B.J. (eds) Transformations of Post-Communist States. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230511309_9
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