Brave New Hungary

Mapping the "System of National Cooperation"
Herausgeber: Kovács, János Matyas; Trencsenyi, Balazs

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Seitenzahl: 460
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Dezember 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 895g
• ISBN-13: 9781498543668
• ISBN-10: 1498543669
• Artikelnr.: 57752125

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Historicizing an Anti-Liberal Turn
János Mátyás Kovács and Balázs Trencsényi
Chapter 1: Reinventing Hungary with Revolutionary Fervor: The Declaration
of National Cooperation as a Readers' Guide to the Fundamental Law of 2011
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 Po