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Brave New Hungary

Mapping the "System of National Cooperation"

von: János Matyas Kovács, Balazs Trencsenyi, Gábor Egry, Zsolt Enyedi, Gábor Halmai, Miklós Haraszti, Stephen Holmes, János Köllo, Ferenc Laczó, Bálint Magyar, Radoslaw Markowski, Silvia Marton, Attila Melegh, Péter Mihályi, Virág Molnár, Jan-Werner Müller, Dorottya Szikra, Renáta Uitz, Balázs Váradi
44,99 €
Verlag:	Lexington Books
Format:	EPUB
Veröffentl.:	10.12.2019
ISBN/EAN:	9781498543675
Sprache:	englisch
Anzahl Seiten:	460

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Brave New Hungary
 
focuses on the rise of a “brave new” anti-liberal regime led by Viktor Orbán who made a decisive contribution to the transformation of a poorly managed liberal democracy to a well-organized authoritarian rule bordering on autocracy during the past decade. Emerging capitalism in post-1989 Hungary that once took pride in winning the Eastern European race for catching up with the West has evolved into a reclusive, statist, national-populist system reminding the observers of its communist and pre-communist predecessors. Going beyond the self-description of the Orbán regime that emphasizes its Christian-conservative and illiberal nature, the authors, leading experts of Hungarian politics, history, society, and economy, suggest new ways to comprehend the sharp decline of the rule of law in an EU member state. Their case studies cover crucial fields of the new authoritarian power, ranging from its historical roots and constitutional properties to media and social policies. The volume presents the Hungarian “System of National Cooperation” as a pervasive but in many respects improvised and vulnerable experiment in social engineering, rather than a set of mature and irreversible institutions. The originality of this dystopian “new world” does not stem from the transition to authoritarian control per se but its plurality of meanings. It can be seen as a simulacrum that shows different images to different viewers and perpetuates itself by its post-truth variability. Rather than pathologizing the current Hungarian regime as a result of a unique master plan designed by a cynical political entrepreneur, the authors show the transnational dynamic of backsliding – a warning for other countries that suffer from comparable deadlocks of liberal democracy.

Titelkurzbeschreibung

This book examines the rise and main structural features of a “brave new” anti-liberal regime in Hungary during the past decade. The transition to authoritarian rule in a member state of the European Union may serve as a warning for other countries that suffer from comparable deadlock of liberal democracy.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Historicizing an Anti-Liberal Turn 
János Mátyás Kovács and Balázs Trencsényi 
Chapter 1: <a>Reinventing Hungary with Revolutionary Fervor: The Declaration of National Cooperation as a Readers’ Guide to the Fundamental Law of 201</a>1 
Chapter 2: Totalitarianism without Perpetrators? Politics of History in the “System of National Cooperation” 
Chapter 3: Civil Society in an Illiberal Democracy: Government-Friendly NGOs, “Foreign Agents,” and Uncivil Publics 
Chapter 4: Beyond Electioneering: Minority Hungarians and the Vision of National Unification 
Chapter 5: The Role of Religion in the Illiberal Hungarian Constitutional System 
Chapter 6: The Right Hand Thinks: On the Sources of György Matolcsy’s Economic Vision 
Chapter 7: Towards a “Work-Based Society”? 
Chapter 8: The Fear of Population Replacement 
Chapter 9: Votes, Ideology, and Self-Enrichment. The Campaign of Re-nationalization After 2010 
Chapter 10: Viktor Orbán’s Propaganda State 
Chapter 11: Ideology or Pragmatism? Interpreting Social Policy Change under the System of National Cooperation 
Chapter 12: The Central European University in the Trenches 
Chapter13: The Post-communist Mafia State As a Criminal State 
Chapter 14: Democracy for Losers. Comment on Bálint Magyar 
Chapter 15: Nothing But a Mafia State? 
Chapter 17: Supply Side Revolution: The Consequences of the 2015 Polish elections 
Chapter 18: Regime, Parties, and Patronage in Contemporary Romania 
Conclusion: Hungary–Brave and New? Dissecting a Realistic Dystopia

Autorenportrait

János Matyas Kovács
 is senior member in the Institute of East European History at the University of Vienna. 
Balazs Trencsenyi
 is professor of history at Central European University.