MEMBER-CONSTITUENCY LINKAGES IN THE HUNGARIAN PARLIAMENT

Linkage has traditionally been identified as a central function of leg islatures. Given the Parliament's initial institutional preeminence in Hungary after 1990 and underdeveloped linkages through organized inte rests or stable and cohesive parties, the linkage function of erected representatives was of special importance. This article examines the p attern of MP constituency linkage in the first democratically erected Hungarian Parliament (1990), the political context within which this p attern was established, and the conceptions MPs held of their represen tative focus.