Democratic Transition 30
28-29 of May 2020
Szeged, Hungría
The last 30 years provide an adequate perspective for political science to evaluate the transition of 1989-1990. With three decades’ hindsight we can reconsider all that seemed obvious during the transition and recognize what was unforeseen in the midst of the events. Re-evaluating the transition is not only about 1989 and 1990, the opposition movements, the roundtable discussions and the first free elections, but also about the system that was established by these events and processes. If the democratic transitions can be considered the basis of the new Central Eastern European democracies, then do they inevitably lead to the present or do we need to pay more attention to what happened after 1990.
