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From liberal democracy to illiberal populist autocracy : possible reasons for Hungary’s autocratization
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1876-4045; 1876-4053
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Hague journal on the rule of law, 2024, Vol. 16, pp. 439-463
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HALMAI, Gábor, From liberal democracy to illiberal populist autocracy : possible reasons for Hungary’s autocratization, Hague journal on the rule of law, 2024, Vol. 16, pp. 439-463 - https://hdl.handle.net/1814/76907
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The paper looks for the main reasons of how was the Hungarian government of the Fidesz Party lead by Prime Minister Viktor Orbán able to within 13 years undermine the independent checks on their power so that it could convert what had looked like a stable but imperfect democracy into an autocracy? After listing the most obvious reasons the paper looks particularly at, how much is the way of a mostly elite-driven democratic transition using the tools of ‚legal constitutionalism‘and ‚undemocratic liberalism‘without real historical traditions of a liberal democratic constitutional culture and with the regionally determined value system is to blame. This also leads to the question, how to allocate the responsibility for the backsliding between the elites and the citizens, infuenced and often manipulated by the leaders.
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Published online: 28 May 2024
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This article was published Open Access with the support from the EUI Library through the CRUI - Springer Transformative Agreement (2020-2024)