Dynamics of an authoritarian system: Hungary, 2010-2021

This conceptually synthetic and empirically rich book demonstrates the vulnerability of democratic settings to authoritarianism and populism. Six scholars from various professional fields explore here the metamorphosis of a political party into a centralized authoritarian system. Viktor Orbán and hi...

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Hauptverfasser: Csanádi, Mária (VerfasserIn, MitwirkendeR), Gerő, Márton 1980- (VerfasserIn, MitwirkendeR), Hajdu, Miklós (VerfasserIn, MitwirkendeR), Kovács, Imre (VerfasserIn, MitwirkendeR), Laki, Mihály 1946- (VerfasserIn, MitwirkendeR), Tóth, István János 1960- (VerfasserIn, MitwirkendeR)
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Budapest ; Vienna ; New York CEU Press - Central European University Press 2022
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Zusammenfassung:This conceptually synthetic and empirically rich book demonstrates the vulnerability of democratic settings to authoritarianism and populism. Six scholars from various professional fields explore here the metamorphosis of a political party into a centralized authoritarian system. Viktor Orbán and his Fidesz party needed less than ten years to accomplish this transformation in Hungary. In 2010, after winning a majority that could make changes in the constitution - two-thirds of the parliamentary seats, they evolved and stabilized the system, which produced again the two-thirds majority in 2014 and 2018. The authors reveal how a democratic setting can be used as a device for political capture. They show how a political entity managed to penetrate almost all sub-fields of the economy to arrive at institutionalized corruption, and how the centralized power structure reproduces itself. With the help of a powerful empirical apparatus-among others analyses of more than 220,000 public tenders, redistributions of state subsidies, and the interconnectedness of those privileged with the political elite - the authors detail the functioning of a crony system and the network aspects of political connections in the rapid enrichment of politically-linked businesses. Their studies demonstrate the role of political capture in this redistribution and how this capture leads to a new social stratification
Beschreibung:XXVI, 351 Seiten Diagramme 23,5 cm
ISBN:9789633865774

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