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Conceptual Space for Illiberal Democracy

Politics and Governance
For over a decade, populists have been experimenting with a new political regime–illiberal democracy. Vocal proponents, such as Hungary’s PM Viktor Orbán, develop “democratic illiberalism” as an ideational model for the illiberal‐democratic regime they ...
Ruzha Smilova
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The fascist authoritarian model of illiberal democracy

Frontiers in Political Science, 2022
Based on our observations and scholarship about how democratic norms are currently being undermined, we propose a model of fascist authoritarianism that includes authoritarianism, the production and exaggeration of threats, conspiracy-oriented propaganda
Philip T. Dunwoody, Joseph Gershtenson, Dennis L. Plane, Territa Upchurch-Poole   +3 more
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Illiberal Direct Democracy [PDF]

Vienna Online Journal on International Constitutional Law, 2020
Abstract Instruments of direct democracy can be – and are – used to further and strengthen illiberal democracy by restricting minority rights (1). The legal design of these instruments can make this easier or less likely (2).
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Comparative populism: Romania and Hungary [PDF]

Eastern Journal of European Studies, 2022
The paper aims to test the mechanism of autocratic populism (term which will be used as a synonym for illiberal democracy) in Hungary and Romania.
Zoltan BRETTER
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Overselling democracy–claiming legitimacy? The link between democratic pretention, notions of democracy and citizens' evaluations of regimes' democraticness

Frontiers in Political Science, 2022
Many non-democratic countries anchor the word “democracy” in their national constitutions and everyday rhetoric, while ignoring the conceptual roots of democracy and its scholarly-defined procedural standards.
Lennart J. Brunkert
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The political economy of reinstating capitalism in Poland: 1989-2020

PSL Quarterly Review, 2022
The article is a contribution to the ongoing series on the future of reformed capitalism. The author attempts to shed some light on the past and the present of capitalism as reinstated in Poland over the years 1989-2020 and on its turn to ...
Jerzy Osiatyński
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Venezuela such as an example of a stable dictatorship in Latin America

Trans-pasando Fronteras, 2023
The following article aims to analyse the current situation in Venezuela, identifying some helpful information written by academics on this topic. Thus, this essay will focus on the five stages a government faces when it loses legitimacy, as described by
Alejandro Diaz Castro
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Musical echoes of a trauma: Listening to phantasms in the dark fantasy Pan’s Labyrinth (2006) [PDF]

Muzikologija
This article examines how music in the film Pan’s Labyrinth [El laberinto del fauno] conceptually generates opposing phantasms. Reflecting the trauma of early Francoism, specifically the Spanish Civil War, the soundtrack oscillates between the ...
Buljančević Rastko
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POLITICAL EVOLUTION AND INVOLUTION IN HUNGARY AFTER THE ACCESSION IN THE EUROPEAN UNION

Studia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai. Studia Europaea, 2018
After the fall of communism, Hungary was one of the leading country in Central and Eastern Europe to pursue democracy and market economy. In short time, it was praised for its achievement in those areas, and soon Hungary was invited to join NATO, and ...
Ovidiu VAIDA
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Democracias liberal e iliberal na América Latina

Opinião Pública, 2009
Este artigo examina a incidência da democracia liberal e "iliberal" na América Latina, de 1978 a 2004. Demonstra, em primeiro lugar, que a democracia iliberal - que combina eleições livres e justas com limitações sistemáticas aos direitos dos cidadãos ...
Peter H. Smith, Melissa R. Ziegler
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