Tamas Dombos

• MA in International Relations and Economics, MA in Sociology and Social Anthropology
• Project Manager at Háttér Society

Much of the content of this paper is a result of collaborative work pursued in the framework of the QUING project. For a complete list of participating researchers see the website of the project at http://www.quing.eu. The paper was presented at the ECPR First European Conference on Politics and Gender held on January 21-23, 2009 at Queen’s Univers...

Az Országgyűlés 2011. április 18-án fogadta el Ma-gyarország Alaptörvényét, ami 2012. január 1-jén lépett hatályba. Az Európa Tanács Velencei Bizott-sága 2011. június 17. és 18-án tartott ülésén elfoga-dott véleményében komoly aggodalmát fejezte ki az Alaptörvénnyel kapcsolatban, ami az ellenzék, tár-sadalmi és szakmai szervezetek bevonása nélkül k...

As of the 1960s, various factors converged within the Eastern Bloc that allowed for higher consumption levels. But as basic needs were largely satisfied, what sort of "higher level needs" socialism should meet became uncertain. The prevailing assumption was that, in harmony with the basic tenets of Marxism, once the means of production and ownershi...

Building on an ethnographic study of ethical consumption discourses and practices among activists and entrepreneurs in Hungary this chapter looks at how actors reflect critically on the current state of the Hungarian society by contrasting it to an image of Western Europe as a locus of consumer consciousness, civic activism, and sustainable economi...