In 1989 Timothy Garton Ash introduced the neologism "refolution" to characterize the paradoxical character of the rapid and unforeseen radical changes in "Eastern Europe". In the first part of the paper, Kis discusses continuity and discontinuity of the legal and constitutional order in the process of transformation towards a parliamentary democracy on the one hand, the configuration of political actors of the establishment and the opposition on the other hand, and develops a conceptual frame of reference which allows to analyse "coordinated transitions". These are defined as an autonomous type of structural change, which seems to be more likely than radical revolutions in developed industrial societies in the second half of the 20th century. In the second part, the author presents five hypotheses concerning the conditions, which might induce political actors to favour the option of a coordinated transition to those of revolution or reform.
