András Lánczi

ANDRÁS LÁNCZI (Budapest, 1956) is a political philosopher. He has been the Director of the Institute of Political Science and Philosophy at Corvinus University, Budapest since 2002. He graduated in English and History at Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, in 1981. From the late 1980s until 1991, he was Editor of the philosophy journal Világosság (Light/ Clarity). From 1997 on, he made several research and lecture tours in the US. Since 2007, he is Chairman of the Center for European Renewal, an international organization of leading intellectuals working on the revival of conservative political thought. In 2010-16, he was Chairman of Századvég Foundation, the principal think-tank of the Fidesz Party. In 2016, he was elected Provost of Corvinus University. Among his books published in Hungarian are On Political Knowledge, Fate-Legacy, Tradition and Modernity in Leo Strauss’s Political Philosophy, Democracy and Political Science, Political Philosophy of the 20th Century.

THE RENEWED SOCIAL CONTRACT – HUNGARY’S ELECTIONS, 2018

THE POLITICAL CONTEXT AND CONFLICTS The general elections of Hungary in 2018 have produced a third consecutive two-third majority in a row since 2010 for the incumbent ruling party alliance called “Fidesz–KDNP”, i.e. FIDESZ–Hungarian Civic Alliance and Christian Democratic People’s Party. It is rare in a democracy that a party

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