András Bozóki

András Bozóki (born 23 January 1959) is a Hungarian sociologist and politician. He served as Minister of Culture between 2005 and 2006. He is professor of political science at Central European University.

His research areas are political change, political systems, Central European politics, political ideologies, the history of ideas and the political role of the intelligentsia.

Life He studied at Eötvös Loránd University and obtained a Doctor Juris in law in 1983 and a Master of Arts in sociology in 1985. After graduation, he got a teaching position at the university, where he taught at the Department of Sociology and Law (since 2013 named as Department of Legal and Social Theory). In 1988–1989, he was a fellow at UCLA's Department of Sociology. In 1993 he left Fidesz. the Wisschenschaftskolleg in Berlin (Andrew Mellon Fellow, 1993–1994), the European Institute of Sussex University (1998), the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study (NIAS) (1998), the European University Institute (EUI) (Jean Monnet Fellow, 2000–2001 and Fernand Braudel Fellow, 2012), and Södertörn University in Stockholm (2008).

Works

Post-Communist Transition: Emerging Pluralism in Hungary London: Pinter, New York: St. Martin's Press (társszerző és társszerk.) 1992. Bloomsbury Academic, 2016 Democratic Legitimacy in Post-Communist Societies. Budapest – Tübingen: T-Twins, (szerk.), 1994 Lawful Revolution in Hungary. Boulder, Colorado: Social Science Monographs, (társszerk.), 1995 Intellectuals and Politics in Central Europe. Budapest – New York: CEU Press, (szerk.), 1999 The Roundtable Talks of 1989: The Genesis of Hungarian Democracy. Budapest – New York: CEU Press (szerk.), 2002 The Communist Successor Parties of Central and Eastern Europe. New York – London: M. E. Sharpe, (társszerk.), 2002, Re-published by Routledge The Future of Democracy in Europe: Trends, Analyses and Reforms. Luxembourg: Council of Europe, (társszerző), 2004 Migrants, Minorities, Belonging and Citizenship. Bergen. BRIC, (társszerző), 2004 Anarchism in Hungary: Theory, History, Legacies. Boulder, Colorado: Social Science Monographs, (társszerző), 2006 Diversity and the European Public Sphere: The Case of Hungary. Bergen: BRIC (társszerző), 2010 25 Years after the Fall of Iron Curtain: The State of Integration of East and West in the European Union. Brussels: European Commission, (társszerző), 2014 Rolling Transition and the Role of Intellectuals: The Case of Hungary. Budapest - New York: CEU Press, 2022 Töréspontok: Tanulmányok az autokrácia kialakulásáról. Budapest: Gondolat, 2024 Embedded Autocracy: Hungary in the European Union. (co-author) Lanham - London - New York: Lexington Books, 2024