The paper examines the CSOs – government relations during the COVID-19 pandemic, first introducing how the pandemic affected the already authoritarian regime in Hungary and how this regime utilized the epidemic to extend and fortify its power. Then the paper presents the antecedents of the relationship between civil society and government in the frame of the National System of Cooperation (NSC). This relationship is unilaterally dominated by the government, and it may appear as a “4C strategy”: Cooptation, Coercion, Crowding out, Creation (the creation of a new, loyal civil society). Exploring the civil society and government relations during the pandemic, the study will conclude that there was no government attempt to coordinate the activities of CSOs or to try to harmonize sectoral cooperation from a broader perspective. The occurrences demonstrated the explosion of solidarity and the carnival of solidarity. These forms of solidarity, however, remain informal and leave deepening structural problems untouched. The paper presents the results of an empirical research which was conducted between March and September of 2020. The nodal points of the research include the resilience and flexibility of the organizations, their efforts to assist during the emergency and lockdown, as well as the issues of networking and the nature of their relations with the national and local authorities.

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匈牙利的民间社会和COVID-19：对民用空间的完全吞并

本文研究了COVID-19大流行期间的民间组织-政府关系，首先介绍了大流行如何影响匈牙利已经独裁的政权，以及该政权如何利用该流行病扩大和强化其权力。然后，在国家合作体系（NSC）的框架下，提出了公民社会与政府之间关系的前提。这种关系由政府单方面支配，并且可能表现为“ 4C战略”：合作，强制，挤出，创新（建立了一个新的，忠诚的公民社会）。在大流行期间探索民间社会与政府关系时，研究将得出结论，政府没有尝试从更广泛的角度协调民间社会组织的活动或试图协调部门合作。这些事件证明了团结的爆发和团结的狂欢。但是，这些形式的团结仍然是非正式的，并没有解决深化的结构性问题。本文介绍了2020年3月至2020年9月之间进行的一项实证研究的结果。研究的重点包括组织的弹性和灵活性，组织在紧急情况和封锁期间的协助工作以及解决问题。网络以及它们与国家和地方当局之间关系的性质。