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András Bozóki

 

András Bozóki is the Istvan Deak Visiting Professor of East Central European Studies at Columbia University for Fall 2009.  Heteaches democratization studies, political change, revolution, modernization and development, political ideologies, comparative East Central European politics, elite theory, the political role of intellectuals and other topics in political sociology at Central European University. He studied law, government, and sociology in ELTE Budapest (1978-85) and later at UCLA as junior visiting fellow (1988-9) before completing his PhD in Political Science at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 1992. He habilitated at ELTE in 2003 .

Professor Bozóki was Chairman of the Hungarian Political Science Association in 2003-5. He has been elected member of the Presidium of HPSA. Between 2002-8, he was elected member of the executive council of the European Political Science Network (epsNet), since 2008 he has been elected member of the executive committee of the European Confederation of Political Science Associations (ECPSA). András Bozóki was a founding editor of the Hungarian Political Science Review where he served as co-editor between 1992-9, and since 1999 he belongs to the editorial associates. He is also member of the editorial associates of the following journals: European Political Science, Journal of Political Science Education, and Taiwan Journal of Democracy .

András Bozóki’s research interests include topics in comparative politics (democratization, models of democracy, East Central European politics), theories of political change (forms of revolutionary and evolutionary changes). His books in this field include Confrontation and Consensus: Strategies for Democratization (Savaria UP, 1995), Political Pluralism in Hungary, 1987-2002. (Budapest: Századvég, 2003) both in Hungarian, and two edited volumes in English:  Post-Communist Transition: Emerging Pluralism in Hungary (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1992) and Democratic Legitimacy in Post-Communist Societies (Budapest – Tübingen: T-Twins, 1994). He was associate editor of Lawful Revolution in Hungary, 1989-94 (Boulder: Social Science Monographs, 1995).

He has been also doing research in elite theory, elite change, symbolic politics, the interaction between political and cultural elites, and the European public sphere. He edited a book on Intellectuals and Politics in Central Europe (Budapest – New York: CEU Press, 1999), and edited the minutes, documents and analyses of the Hungarian Roundtable Talks, in Hungarian, an 8-volume series in political history, entitled, The ‘Script’ of the Regime Change: The Roundtable Talks in 1989 (Budapest: Magveto, 1999-2000). He edited The Roundtable Talks of 1989: The Genesis of Hungarian Democracy (Budapest – New York: CEU Press, 2002), and co-edited with John Ishiyama The Communist Successor Parties inCentral and Eastern Europe (Armonk, NY – London: M. E. Sharpe, 2002). He was the Hungarian leader of the FP5 European research in Glocalization and Citizenship (2003-5), and also at the FP6 European research on the European polity and public sphere (2007-11). Asa result of the first research he co-authored a book, Migrants, Minorities, Belonging, and Citizenship: The Case of Hungary (Bergen: BRIC, 2004).

András Bozóki conducted research in political ideologies as well. He co-authored The Theory and History of Anarchismin Hungary (Budapest: Cserépfalvi, 1994) in Hungarian. Its revised version was published in English as Anarchism in Hungary: Theory, History, Legacies by the Social Science Monographs and the Columbia University Press (2006). He co-edited four other books with Miklós Sükösd on the theoretical and historical developments of anarchism, in Hungarian language, covering both international and Hungarian anarchist ideas and movements (1991, 1994, 1998, 2009).

Professor Bozóki has been a research fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg (Institute for Advanced Study) in Berlin, Germany, in 1993-4; at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study [NIAS] in Wassenaar, The Netherlands, in 1998; at the Sussex Institute for European Studies in Brighton, U. K., in 1998; at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna, Austria, in 1990-1. He was a Jean Monnet Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy, in 2000-1; and a visiting scholar at Södertörns University in Stockholm, Sweden in 2008.

He taught as visiting professor at the Department of Political Science at Columbia University, New York in 2004 and 2009. Since 1994, he has been teaching at the Central European University, while he has also taught at Eötvös Loránd University [ELTE] from 1983 to present. Furthermore, he taught at Bologna University in Italy in 2008, at Smith College in Northampton, Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Hampshire College in Amherst, all in Massachusetts, USA, in 1999-2000, and at Nottingham University, in the U. K., in 1993. Between 2002-4, he supervised students at the Erasmus Invisible College in Budapest. He was invited to give lectures in several universities and international conferences in all continents.

Besides his academic activity, András Bozóki has been active in public life as columnist, activist, analyst and consultant. In 1987, he was a founder of MDF, in 1988 he joined Fidesz and the Network of Free Initiatives. In 1989, he was a negotiator at the National Roundtable Talks on behalf of the Opposition Roundtable. In 1990, he was spokesman and campaign strategist for Fidesz, a liberal opposition party of the time. In 1989 András Bozóki was one of the founding editors of Magyar Narancs, a bi-weekly magazine. He belongs to those contributors of the magazine who received collectively a Pulitzer Prize in 1993. In 2003-4, he was advisor to the Prime Minister. In 2005-6, András Bozóki served as Minister of Culture of Hungary.

 

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