This article’s central question is how former dissidents and their engagement in post-1989 nascent democratic politics contributed to the emergence of what was later retrospectively labelled the “liberal consensus.” I look at the earliest stages of this consensus before it started to lock in the conditionality of the EU accession process. To this end, I first discuss the “liberal consensus” from a retrospective and past prospective perspective. I define the notions of “post-dissent” and liberal politics emerging after 1989 on the dissident platform. I discuss the theoretical background and historical contours of the notion of dissident “politics of consensus.” The empirical core of the study is an analysis of the birth of post-dissident liberal parties in the process of the disintegration of broad consensual democratization movements of the 1989 revolutions. The study offers a comparison of the Czech, Slovak, Hungarian, and Polish cases, analyzing their similarities and less obvious but significant differences.

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1989 年后中欧东部的后异见政治和“自由共识”


本文的核心问题是，前持不同政见者及其对 1989 年后新生民主政治的参与如何促成了后来被回顾性地称为“自由主义共识”的出现。我研究了这一共识开始锁定加入欧盟程序的条件之前的最早阶段。为此，我首先从回顾和过去的前瞻性角度来讨论“自由主义共识”。我定义了 1989 年后在持不同政见者平台上出现的“后异议”和自由主义政治的概念。我讨论了持不同政见者“共识政治”概念的理论背景和历史轮廓。该研究的实证核心是分析在 1989 年革命的广泛共识民主化运动解体过程中后持不同政见的自由党派的诞生。该研究对捷克、斯洛伐克、匈牙利和波兰的病例进行了比较，分析了它们的相似之处和不太明显但显着的差异。