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The Tocqueville Review
Hungary’s Prime Minister since 2010 has long defended the transformation of Hungary into an “illiberal democracy,” the first of its kind in the European Union. In September 2022, for the first time in the history of the EU, the European Parliament adopted a resolution which concluded that Hungary had ceased to be a democracy to become an electoral ...
Lobina, Benedetta, Pech, Laurent
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Hungary’s Prime Minister since 2010 has long defended the transformation of Hungary into an “illiberal democracy,” the first of its kind in the European Union. In September 2022, for the first time in the history of the EU, the European Parliament adopted a resolution which concluded that Hungary had ceased to be a democracy to become an electoral ...
Lobina, Benedetta, Pech, Laurent
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Current History, 2015
Hungarian political and economic stresses over the past 25 years have been in many ways a magnified version of those afflicting Western Europe.
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Hungarian political and economic stresses over the past 25 years have been in many ways a magnified version of those afflicting Western Europe.
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Public Reason and Illiberal Democracy
2020Abstract Illiberal democracy is characterized by four features: pretending to play the democratic rules of the game; instrumental use of the law to gain political advantage; location of the source of political legitimacy in majority rule; and recourse to religiously driven morality as a basis for state action.
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Illiberal Democracy or Populist Authoritarianism?
2019Abstract Poland’s constitutional breakdown of 2015 constitutes an interesting, if unfortunate, case study of the relationship between populism and democracy, and the related concept of ‘illiberal democracy’. Without generalizing this finding, the chapter argues that in Poland, illiberal democracy is largely an oxymoron.
Wojciech Sadurski, Sadurski Wojciech
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The Rise of Illiberal Democracy
Foreign Affairs, 1997The American diplomat Richard Holbrooke pondered a problem on the eve of the September 1996 elections in Bosnia, which were meant to restore civic life to that ravaged country. "Suppose the election was declared free and fair," he said, and those elected are "racists, fascists, separatists, who are publicly opposed to [peace and r?int?gration]. That is
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The Illiberal Turn in Indonesian Democracy
Asia-Pacific Journal, 2020AbstractTwo decades after authoritarian breakdown and democratic transition in 1998, how does the trajectory of Indonesian democracy look? By reflecting on the state of Indonesian politics in the last 15 years, this paper will argue that despite many improvements, Indonesian democracy has experienced a slow process of decline and a deepening of ...
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The EU’s Illiberal Democracies
2019This chapter deals with Europe’s “illiberal” democracies, in particular Hungary and Poland and a broader and growing “crisis of democracy” in the EU. It explores how this trend did not emerge in a vacuum: it developed gradually after the Eurozone crisis from 2010 and was hyper-charged by the ineffectual responses of the EU institutions to these ...
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Populist Constitutionalism and Illiberal Democracies
2021This book is a topical study of populist constitutionalism and illiberal democracies, exploring their roots in constitutional imagination as well as their normative entrenchment and performance in political reality. It provides insightful analysis of republican constitutionalism, focusing on the role of people in radical democracy and revolutionary ...
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Illiberal Democracy and the Struggle on the Right
Journal of Democracy, 2019One of the biggest challenges to democracy today is posed by the dramatic change in the political-party landscape, especially in Europe but in some other parts of the world as well. Attention understandably has focused on the rise of a variety of populist candidates and movements, but what has enabled their rise is the drastic decline in support for ...
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Illiberal Democracies and Democratic Backsliding
2022During democracy’s Third Wave there was a sense of optimism in the literature concerning the future of democracy, as countries around the world appeared destined for liberal democracy. That optimism has faded as systems in the past half-decade have seen the rise of illiberalism, democratic decline, or autocratization.
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