This book investigates the concept of the System of National Cooperation (Hungarian abbrev.: NER), which was introduced as a form of New Social Contract (Csanįdi), and its framing in pro-governmental media and public discourse during the period from 2010 until 2018. This qualitative discourse and framing analysis is based on case studies of how the Hungarian Citizens Union Fidesz-MPSZ (mis)uses government-friendly media to popularize its policies and actions, especially those related to the NER. So far, the NER and its discursive manifestation in the media remain neglected topics in international academia. This unique study elaborates on the complexity of the Hungarian System of National Cooperation and provides an interdisciplinary approach to the analysis of the framing of discourses and concepts, in pro-governmental media.
Dr. Zsófia Mįria Schmidt studied Journalism, East European Affairs, as well as Culture and Organization in Berlin, Budapest, Baku and St. Gallen. Since 2017, she worked as an editor and researcher for the online journal Euxeinos published by the Department of East European Studies at the University of St. Gallen in Switzerland. Previously, Schmidt worked at the Open Society Archives in Budapest, held internships at the Danube Strategy Point as well as Balassi Culture Institute in Brussels, translated for n-ost, a network for border crossing journalism, and was affiliated with the Leibniz Center for Literary and Cultural Research (ZfL) in Berlin. Schmidt is a member of the German Society for East European Studies (DGO). Andreas Umland, M.Phil. (Oxford), Dr.Phil. (FU Berlin), Ph.D. (Cambridge), Research Fellow at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs in Stockholm, Senior Expert at the Ukrainian Institute for the Future in Kyiv, and Associate Professor at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. Dr Andreas Schmidt-Schweizer is Senior Research Fellow at the Department of History in the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA) at Budapest.
