Az a megtiszteltetés ért, hogy 2024. szeptember 9-én ELTE Ezüst Eötvös Emlékérmet kaptam az ELTE Állam- és Jogtudományi Karától.
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).
Friday, September 13, 2024
Friday, August 30, 2024
Antal Attila: A jog és a rendkívüli eszközökkel való kormányzás. Jog és politika a válságok korában (ELTE Eötvös Kiadó, 2024)
Az ELTE Eötvös Kiadó gondozásában megjelent legújabb kötetem, amely a Nemzeti Kutatási, Fejlesztési és Innovációs Hivatal Posztdoktori Kiválósági Programja keretében az Eötvös Loránd Tudományegyetem Állam- és Jogtudományi Karán A rendkívüli jogrend a globális ökológiai és járványügyi válságok tükrében (NKFIH-azonosító: 139007) címmel végezett kutatásaimat foglalja össze.
A kötet elérhető az ELTE Eötvös Kiadónál és az ELTE Reader-en.
Tuesday, July 9, 2024
Authoritarian Populism, Environmentalism and Exceptional Governance in Hungary (When Power Goes Green – The Politics of Ecological Emergency in the Shadow of Authoritarianism, 10 July 2024, Universität Hamburg)
I am participating at the When Power Goes Green – The Politics of Ecological Emergency in the Shadow of Authoritarianism workshop at 10th July 2024, organized by Humanities Centre for Advanced Studies “Futures of Sustainability” at Universität Hamburg. My presentation is about Authoritarian Populism, Environmentalism and Exceptional Governance in Hungary.
Friday, May 31, 2024
Extraordinary Governance Measures as Authoritarian Class Politics (No War but the Class War Conference, May 31 - June 2, 2024, New York)
I hold a lecture at No War but the Class War Historical Materialism and Institute for the Radical Imagination Conference No War but the Class War Historical Materialism and Institute for the Radical Imagination Conference, May 31 - June 2, 2024, New York.
Extraordinary Governance Measures as Authoritarian Class Politics
We have entered the era of overlapping crisis (polycrisis). 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, which can be called “neo-weimarization”, opened the way of authoritarian right-wing populism and its class politics. The rise of authoritarian populism and the extraordinary governance measures (EGMs) of has fundamentally changed the relationship between law and politics. I will examine the impact of EGMs on democracy and the structure of social classes. The overlapping state of exception rise several dilemmas, since governing by EGMs is not in itself undemocratic, but if the executive power primarily performs its tasks in an extraordinary manner, then this has very serious social and political consequences and this also leaves its mark on democracy. My main claim is that authoritarian populism has found in the EGM the instrument of a new authoritarian class politics. At the same time, governments have shifted strongly in a kind of crisis management direction, which provides incredible opportunities to govern by EMSs, but also takes us incredibly far away from any kind of political, social normality. In examining the political economical practice of EGMs in Hungary, one of the most important directions is the impact of political governance on constitutionalism, the legal system, and the law itself. The Hungarian experience makes it clear that the authoritarian political leadership has used the EGMs to further build and strengthen the national capitalist class, while the social effects of the polycrisis have not been addressed.
Friday, May 17, 2024
A rendkívüli eszközökkel való kormányzás közpolitikai hatásai (MPTT Vánforgyűlés, 2024. május 16-17.)
Részt vettem 2024. május 16-17. között a Magyar Politikatudományi Társaság XXIX. Vándorgyűlésén Pécsett. Az előadás címe: A rendkívüli eszközökkel való kormányzás közpolitikai hatásai.
Saturday, April 13, 2024
A kivételes kormányzás és a demokrácia a válságok korszakában – Kivételes kormányzás a 2010 utáni Magyarországon (ELTE Eötvös Kiadó, 2024)
Thursday, April 4, 2024
Law and Democracy under the Pressure of Extraordinary Governance Measures (MPSA, 4 April 2024)
I had a lecture at 81st Annual Midwest Political Science Association Conference, April 4-7, 2024, Chicago, IL.
Monday, March 4, 2024
Exceptional Governance Measure in the Era of Climate and Ecological Crisis (FFLCH–University of São Paulo Cultura e Extensão Universitária Summer School March 4-7, 2024)
Friday, February 2, 2024
A válságok és kivételes jogrendek történeti perspektívában (Múltunk, 2023/4.)
Megjelent A válságok és kivételes jogrendek történeti perspektívában című tanulmányom a Múltunk 2023/4. számában.
Thursday, February 1, 2024
A kivételes jogrend és a demokrácia (Politikatudományi Szemle, 2023/3.)
Megjelent A kivételes jogrend és a demokrácia című tanulmányom a Politikatudományi Szemle 2023/3. számában.
Saturday, December 23, 2023
Emergency Power in Hungary and the COVID-19 (Canadian Journal of European and Russian Studies)
My new paper has been published:
Antal, Attila. 2023. “Emergency Power in Hungary and the COVID-19”. Canadian Journal of European and Russian Studies 16 (3):59-77. https://doi.org/10.22215/cjers.v16i3.3727.
We live in an era of overlapping states of exceptions: the climate and ecological emergency, the permanent crisis of global capitalism, the migration crisis, the COVID-19 pandemic. Relying on the Hungarian political regime, this paper investigates how and why exceptional measures restructure our life. It can be argued that the main outcome of the exceptional measures is the rise of a new executive power, and it is demonstrated how heavily authoritarian regimes rely on the state of exception. It has been argued here that behind the strengthening of the emergency power there is the new rise of unlimited executive power, which is nothing more than the legal and political fulfilment of two-thirds majority power. Upon the case of the permanent state of exception of the Orbán regime, it can be said that the COVID-19 as an epidemiological crisis cannot be traced back to the Orbán administration, but the executive power has found a way to create a new political crisis based on the epidemic. The paper briefly discusses the impact of the 2022 Hungarian national election campaign period and the Russian aggression against Ukraine in February 2022 on the Hungarian emergency powers.