ABSTRACT Hungarian ethnic lobby is traditionally not listed among influential interest groups in the United States, however, 1987 marks a grand exception in this regard. In 1987, the efforts of the Hungarian Human Rights Foundation (HHRF) contributed to a large extent to the suspension of Romania’s Most Favoured Nation Status in the American Congress. The HHRF based its lobby strategy entirely on normative grounds: the human and minority rights violations of the Ceausescu system, which heavily deteriorated the conditions and endangered the survival of the Hungarian community living in Romania. This paper analyses the lobbying tactics of the HHRF in the 1970–1980s, which proved to be the most successful period of Hungarian lobby efforts in the United States ever. This paper argues that the fact that the members of the HHRF were second-generation Hungarian Americans was crucial in the organization’s ability to effectively lobby in the American Congress.

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第二代侨民的力量：1970-1980 年代在美国的匈牙利族裔游说

摘要 匈牙利民族游说团传统上不属于美国有影响力的利益集团，然而，1987 年在这方面是一个大例外。1987 年，匈牙利人权基金会（HHRF）的努力在很大程度上促成了罗马尼亚在美国国会中的最惠国待遇地位的暂停。HHRF 的游说策略完全基于规范性依据：齐奥塞斯库制度侵犯人权和少数民族权利，这严重恶化了条件并危及居住在罗马尼亚的匈牙利社区的生存。本文分析了 HHRF 在 1970-1980 年代的游说策略，这被证明是匈牙利游说努力在美国有史以来最成功的时期。