TY - JOUR
T1 - Orbán’s laboratory of illiberalism
AU - Krekó, Péter
AU - Enyedi, Zsolt
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018. The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA.
PY - 2018/7
Y1 - 2018/7
N2 - The reelection of Fidesz leader Viktor Orbán’s government in Hungary in April 2018 has entrenched a hybrid regime within the European Union. This article discusses some of the most crucial factors that have led to Hungary’s democratic backsliding and supplied the institutional and cultural bases of Fidesz’s rule. The authors particularly focus on phenomena that contributed to the party’s third landslide electoral victory, including the rhetoric of identity politics, conspiracy theories, and the fake news industry. While an idiosyncratic sequence of particular events led to the ascendance of illiberal rule in Hungary, the causal factors involved are virtually omnipresent and could therefore lead to similar outcomes elsewhere.
AB - The reelection of Fidesz leader Viktor Orbán’s government in Hungary in April 2018 has entrenched a hybrid regime within the European Union. This article discusses some of the most crucial factors that have led to Hungary’s democratic backsliding and supplied the institutional and cultural bases of Fidesz’s rule. The authors particularly focus on phenomena that contributed to the party’s third landslide electoral victory, including the rhetoric of identity politics, conspiracy theories, and the fake news industry. While an idiosyncratic sequence of particular events led to the ascendance of illiberal rule in Hungary, the causal factors involved are virtually omnipresent and could therefore lead to similar outcomes elsewhere.
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U2 - 10.1353/jod.2018.0043
DO - 10.1353/jod.2018.0043
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85050101746
SN - 1045-5736
VL - 29
SP - 39
EP - 51
JO - Journal of Democracy
JF - Journal of Democracy
IS - 3
ER -