Dynamics of an Authoritarian System: Hungary, 2010-2021 Csandi Mria
Dynamics of an Authoritarian System: Hungary, 2010-2021 Csandi Mria This conceptually synthetic and empirically rich book demonstrates the vulnerability of democratic settings to authoritarianism and…
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Dynamics of an Authoritarian System: Hungary, 2010-2021 Csandi Mria
This conceptually synthetic and empirically rich book demonstrates the vulnerability of democratic settings to authoritarianism and populism. Viktor Orbn and his Fidesz party needed less than ten years to accomplish this transformation in Hungary. Six scholars from various professional fields explore here the metamorphosis of a political party into a centralized authoritarian system.
The authors reveal how a democratic setting can be used as a device for political capture. 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. 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.