Węgry: zwrot do systemu nieliberalnego
Hungary: A turn towards an illiberal system

Summary/Abstract: In this short, condensed study of the Hungarian case of state capture after 2010,the Author, on the basis chiefly of Hungarian-language literature, shows how –and to what extent – the liberal democracy introduced after the Communist systemcollapsed was dismantled. Not only a new Constitution was introduced on January1, 2012, but all features of the checks and balances system, i.e. the media, economy,judicial system, and recently also civil society were subordinated to parliamentarymajority, the executive power and personally to a charismatic, but also populist andnationalist prime minister Viktor Orbán (the term „Orbán System” was popularizedespecially by the media). The author does not presume to know what should happennext, however, he wishes the article to be treated as a reminder of how weak –institutionally and by its very nature – liberal democracy is in the post-Communistworld.

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