Mária Bordás

Chances for Democracy in Europe (eBook, ePUB)

The New Wave of Illiberalism in Post-Communist Countries

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

At the turn of Twenty-First Century, no one could have believed that by a decade later, the prime minister of Hungary would roughly declare his political and government system as an illiberal democracy. Chances for Democracy in Europe: The New Wave of Illiberalism in Post-Communist Countries explores the scenarios of building illiberal democracy as followed by Putin in Russia, then how it spread in the post-Communist Europe. It will be showing how a full-born illiberal democracy has unfolded in Hungary since 2010, during the last four Orbán governments, and the similarities it shares with the Russian illiberal state. If the Treaty of Maastricht, that laid down democratic principles of the European Union, has the sufficient political and legal tools to enforce them, when they are not respected by the member states. While the EU failed in this effort with Hungary, it seems to be successful of a sort in Poland and Slovenia. The author analyses why developed Western European countries with long traditions of democratic traditions and values, have been resistant to illiberalism, and remained strong liberal democracies, but what about the countries without long traditions of democratic values?

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Oktober 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781666910254
• Artikelnr.: 68097631

Autorenporträt

Mária Bordás is full professor at the Faculty of Public Governance and International Relations, at the University of Public Service, Ludovika, in Budapest, Hungary.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1. Divergent Way of Democracy in Europe from the Ancient Times
until the late 19th Century
Chapter 2. Challenges of Liberal Democracies in Europe in the 20th Century:
Fascism and Communism
Chapter 3. Issues of Liberal Democracy after the World War II - Emergence
of Populism
Chapter 4. Erosion of Communism since the mid-1980's in Russia and Hungary
Chapter 5. Democratic Way or Illiberal Turn in the Post-Communist Europe
Since 1990
Chapter 6. Emerging of Illiberal State in Russia: The Putin Regime Since
2000
Chapter 7. Fall of Liberal Democracy in Hungary - Replaced by a Full-Born
Illiberal State