Hungary : an abusive neo-militant democracy

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dc.contributor.authorDRINÓCZI, Tímea
dc.contributor.authorMÉSZÁROS, Gábor
dc.date.accessioned2022-04-06T15:25:29Z
dc.date.available2022-04-06T15:25:29Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.description.abstractDemocracy and democratic tolerance have been used for their own destruction in Hungary. Gradually, a special quasi-militant democracy has become the very nature of the governing political parties since 2010. The chapter proposes to call it “abusive neo-militant democracy.” In an abusive neo-militant democracy it is not the case that the “enemies of a constitutional democracy,” have completely turned into “friends” of the illiberal state. The Orbán regime has created its own “enemies” partially among those who would never be thought as a threat to constitutional democracy, but more likely its foundational elements (political opposition, NGOs, free media, etc.). The other layer of enemy creation is the presentation of a group of people that could, allegedly, jeopardise the populist and homogenous vision of the people and the nation (migrants, asylum seekers, and the members of the LGBTQI community) – they are visibly “other” than “us.” “Abusive neo-militant democracy” expresses the ways and methods of how militant democracy’s anti-democratic measures are used for the purpose of the governing political party and not for the good of substantive constitutional democracy. There is one solitary goal: defending “our democracy,” against “them” – those who promote substantive constitutional democracy.en
dc.identifier.citationRoman BÄCKER and Joanna RAK (eds), Neo-militant democracies in post-communist member states of the European Union, London : Routledge, 2022, pp. 98-114en
dc.identifier.doi10.4324/9781003245162-8
dc.identifier.isbn9781003245162
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1814/74411
dc.language.isoenen
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dc.publisherRoutledgeen
dc.titleHungary : an abusive neo-militant democracyen
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