TY - JOUR
T1 - Right-wing authoritarian innovations in Central and Eastern Europe
AU - Enyedi, Zsolt
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2020/7/2
Y1 - 2020/7/2
N2 - The decline of the quality of democracy in Central and Eastern Europe was facilitated by intellectual, ideological, and organizational innovations of a new authoritarian elite. I this article I discuss five such innovations: a particular combination of victim mentality, self-confidence and resentment against the West, the transformation of neighbor-hating nationalisms into a civilizationist anti-immigrant platform, the delegitimization of civil society and the return to the belief in a strong state, the resurrection of the Christian political identity, and the transformation of populist discourse into a language and organizational strategy that is compatible with governmental roles (“populist establishment”). These factors together point to an overarching ideological fame that I call paternalist populism.
AB - The decline of the quality of democracy in Central and Eastern Europe was facilitated by intellectual, ideological, and organizational innovations of a new authoritarian elite. I this article I discuss five such innovations: a particular combination of victim mentality, self-confidence and resentment against the West, the transformation of neighbor-hating nationalisms into a civilizationist anti-immigrant platform, the delegitimization of civil society and the return to the belief in a strong state, the resurrection of the Christian political identity, and the transformation of populist discourse into a language and organizational strategy that is compatible with governmental roles (“populist establishment”). These factors together point to an overarching ideological fame that I call paternalist populism.
KW - East-Central Europe
KW - Orban
KW - Populism
KW - ideology
KW - nationalism
KW - political Christianity
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U2 - 10.1080/21599165.2020.1787162
DO - 10.1080/21599165.2020.1787162
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85087568424
SN - 2159-9165
VL - 36
SP - 363
EP - 377
JO - East European Politics
JF - East European Politics
IS - 3
ER -