It was a great surprise to both the Hungarian and the international research community to see how determined and successful were the 2nd and the 3d Orbán-governments in rolling back the results of the post-communist privatizations. In my earlier papers - see Mihályi (2014, 2015a,b) - I showed...

It was a great surprise to both the Hungarian and the international research community to see how determined and successful were the 2nd and the 3d Orbán-governments in rolling back the results of the post-communist privatizations. In my earlier papers – see Mihályi (2014, 2015a,b) – I...

This paper presents a brief account of the Hungarian renationalization and recentralization process under the 2nd and 3nd government of Prime Minister Viktor Orbán (2010-2018). Under his autocratic rule, Hungary, the former leading reform country in Central and Eastern Europe has made a sharp...

This paper presents a brief account of the Hungarian renationalization and recentralization process under the 2nd and 3nd government of Prime Minister Viktor Orbán (2010–2018). Under his autocratic rule, Hungary, the former leading reform country in Central and Eastern Europe has made a sharp...

Dolgozatomban bemutatom az Imperiali és Macau körzetkiosztási módszereket és megvizsgálom, hogy egy alapvető arányossági kritériumnak, az ún. Hare-kvóta tulajdonságnak mennyire felelnek meg. Emellett arra a kérdésre keresem a választ, hogy a két módszer valóban kedvez-e a...

The traditional voting games are special transferable utility cooperative games, so-called simple games, where the players are the parties and the value of a coalition may be 1 or 0 depending on the ability of the coalition to pass a motion or not. In this paper we introduce general weighted...

One of the aims of the new electoral law of Hungary has been to define a fairer apportionment into voting districts. This is ensured by a set of rules slightly more premissive than those laid out in the Code of Good Practice in Electoral Matters of the Venice Commission. These rules fix the...

We present a theory of the choice of alternative democratic constitutions, a majoritarian or a consensual one, in an unequal society. A majoritarian democracy redistributes resources from the collectivity toward relatively few people, and has a relatively small government and low level of...

We analyze the incentives for cooperation of three players differing in their efficiency of effort in a contest game. We concentrate on the non-cooperative bargaining foundation of coalition formation, and therefore, we adopt a two-stage model. In the first stage, individuals form coalitions...