I have participated at the 27th Annual Central European Political Science Association (CEPSA) conference, 28-29 September 2023. My paper's title: The Extraordinary Governance and Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe.
State of Emergency
This pages contains the result of Attila Attila's research project on "The State of Emergency in the Era of Global Ecological and Pandemic Crisis" (financed by National Research, Development and Innovation Office Postdoctoral Excellence Program of Hungary, ID-number: 139007, hosting institution: ELTE Faculty of Law).
Thursday, September 28, 2023
The Extraordinary Governance and Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe (CEPSA, 28-29 September 2023)
Saturday, September 23, 2023
The Extraordinary Governance Measures in Hungary (Towards a Siege Mentality?, online workshop, 23 September 2023)
I have participated at the Towards a Siege Mentality? Crisis, Authoritarianism, and Emergency Powers in the Long Twentieth Century Virtual workshop, 22-23 September 2023. My paper's title: The Extraordinary Governance Measures in Hungary.
Thursday, September 21, 2023
The Extraordinary Governance Measures of Authoritarian Populism in the Era of Global Crisis (Crises and Transformations, Berlin, 21-22 September 2023)
I have participated at the conference of Crises & Transformations Actors, Politics and Strategies in Central and Southeastern Europe after 2008, which has been organized 21-22 September 2023, in Berlin, Germany. My paper's title: The Extraordinary Governance Measures of Authoritarian Populism in the Era of Global Crisis.
Tuesday, September 12, 2023
Democratic Threats and Opportunities of the Exceptional Governance (Dreiländertagung, Linz, 11-13 September 2023)
I have participated at the conference of "Zeitenwende – Politik(Wissenschaft) in unsicheren Zeiten" Dreiländertagung von DVPW, ÖGWP und SVWP, which has been organized 11-13 September 2023. in Linz, Austria. My paper's title: Democratic Threats and Opportunities of the Exceptional Governance.
Monday, July 24, 2023
Az alkotmányosság a kivételes jogrend korszakában
Megjelent Az alkotmányosság a kivételes jogrend korszakában című tanulmányom Pesti Sándor és Szoboszlai-Kiss Katalin által szerkesztett Ünnepi tanulmányok a 80 éves Bihari Mihály tiszteletére (Budapest, Magyarország: ELTE Állam- és Jogtudományi Kar; ELTE Eötvös Kiadó, 2023, 13-23.) című kötetben.
A tanulmány elérhető az Academia.edu felületemről
Friday, May 26, 2023
Globális válságok és kivételes állapotok (MPTT Vándorgyűlés, 2023. május 25-26.)
2023. május 25-26. között került megrendezésre a Magyar Politikatudományi Társaság XXVIII. Vándorgyűlése, amelyre a Nemzeti Kutatási, Fejlesztési és Innovációs Hivatal Posztdoktori Kiválósági Program keretében folytatott, A rendkívüli jogrend a globális ökológiai és járványügyi válságok tükrében című (NKFIH-azonosító: 139007) kutatásom keretében szervezetem egy panelt Globális válságok és kivételes állapotok címmel.
Tuesday, May 2, 2023
A kivételes jogrend és demokrácia (ELTE ÁJK PTI Műhelyvita, 2023. május 11. 18.00)
Saturday, April 15, 2023
Democratic Threats and Opportunities of the Exceptional Governance (MPSA Conference, 13-16 April, 2023, Chicago, IL)
Monday, April 3, 2023
The Political Economy of Emergency Governance in Hungary (transform! conference, 3-4 April, 2023)
I am participating at “100 Shades of the EU: The Political Economy of the EU Peripheries between Pandemic and War” conference organised by transform! 3-4t April, 2023 in Trieste (Italy). I will present a sub-topic of my postdoctoral research on "The State of Emergency in the Era of Global Ecological and Pandemic Crisis". I will speak about The Political Economy of Emergency Governance in Hungary.
The authoritarian populist right-wing has rapidly reborn in the field of authoritarian state and emergency governance, moreover the COVID-19 crisis gave a new rise this phenomenon. The failures of liberal democracy opened the way of authoritarian populist right-wing populism in semi-peripheral Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), which on the one hand remained integrated into the neoliberal capitalism and on the other hand dismantled the legal basis of liberal constitutionalism. Investigating the CEE authoritarian populist regimes (especially Hungary), it has been argued that Hungarian authoritarian populism and its regional followers established this politics from the migration crisis of 2015 on the permanent state of exception and extraordinary governance measures. The COVID-19 crisis offered a new opportunity to maintain and extend the emergency measures. Viktor Orbán, Prime Minister found the way to capitalize the pandemic crisis and introduced the overlapping exceptional measures. Relying on the political theoretical concept of exceptional governance, it has been argued and analysed in this paper that the new forms of authoritarianism in CEE are based on the extraordinary measures. Even before the COVID-19 crisis, the dependence of the semi-peripheral CEE economic and political regimes on the European capitalist centre was already very significant. In this paper, I will examine the political economy concept of governance by exceptional measures in the Orbán regime. I argue that the semi-peripheral Orbán regime, serving global capitalism, has made Hungarian society even more vulnerable by extraordinary measures to the global and national capitalist class than before (for instance the new Labour Code, de facto abolition of the possibility of legal strikes).
The program of the event can be found here.
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Friday, March 10, 2023
A globális válságok társadalmi és politikai hatásai (workshop, ELTE ÁJK, 2023. március 23.)
2023. március 23-án kerül megrendezésre az ELTE Állam- és Jogtudományi Karán a "A globális válságok társadalmi és politikai hatásai" című workshop.
Projekt-honlap: http://www.stateofemergency.hu/