András L. Pap

Democratic Decline in Hungary (eBook, PDF)

Law and Society in an Illiberal Democracy

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Produktbeschreibung

This book shows the rise and morphology of a self-identified `illiberal democracy', the first 21st century illiberal political regime arising in the European Union. Since 2010, Viktor Orbán's governments in Hungary have convincingly offered an anti-modernist and anti-cosmopolitan/anti-European Unionist rhetoric, discourse and constitutional identity to challenge neo-liberal democracy. The Hungarian case provides unique observation points for students of transitology, especially those who are interested in states which are to abandon pathways of liberal democracy.

The author demonstrates how illiberalism is present both in `how' and `what' is being done: the style, format and procedure of legislation; as well as the substance: the dismantling of institutional rule of law guarantees and the weakening of checks and balances. The book also discusses the ideological commitments and constitutionally framed and cemented value preferences, and a reconstituted and re-conceptualized relationship between the state and its citizens, which is not evidently supported by Hungarians' value system and life-style choices.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. August 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351684682
• Artikelnr.: 49132652

Autorenporträt

András L. Pap is Research Professor and Head of Department for Constitutional and Administrative Law at the (formerly Hungarian Academy of Sciences) Centre for Social Sciences, Institute for Legal Studies, as well as Professor of Law at the Faculty of Economics at Eötvös University (ELTE) in Budapest, Hungary. For 25 years, until its closing in 2025, he was Adjunct (Recurrent Visiting) Professor in the Nationalism Studies Program at the Central European University (CEU) in Budapest and Vienna.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part I. Chronology and explanations: what happened in Hungary in 2010-2012
Chapter 1. Democratic U-turn, the chronology of building an illiberal
democracy
1. Meanwhile in Hungary: An illiberal democracy in the making
2. The legislative juggernaut
3. Dismantling rule of law guarantees
4. Expanding the electorate and gerrymandering
5. And the new constitution...
6. Constitutional partnership or cemented clientelism?
7. Immediate responses
Chapter 2. Causes and explanations
1. Values and political culture
2. Orbán and his strategy: The rhetoric and politics of the "dark side"
3. A little help from the constitutional structure...
4. Economic hardship
Part II. The microfabric of the Hungarian illiberal democracy'
Chapter 3. Illiberalism as constitutional identity
1. Terminology and conceptualization
2. Illiberalism and the emergence of a new political community: The System
of National Cooperation
3. Illiberalism and the System of National Cooperation
4. Illiberal democracy as constitutional identity
Chapter 4. Intimate citizenship and value preferences in the new
constitution
1. The SNC as a workfare state
2. The SNC as a Christian state
3. Family in the SNC
4. Equality of intimate citizenship in the SNC
5. Reproductive rights in the SNC
5. Paternalism and essentialism in the SNC
6. Conclusions
Chapter 5. Illiberal multiculturalism: deceptive premises, misguided
policies
1. Illiberal transnationalism: The nation and the constitution in internal
and external homelands
2. Illiberal multiculturalism: The nation and the minorities
3. Conclusion
Chapter 6. Communitarians, dignity, and privacy: personhood and
transparency in the System of National Cooperation
1. Communities as primary agents of dignity
2. Liberal instruments for illiberal objectives: privacy as a tool to
obstruct public accountability and to protect the dignity of government
institutions and officials
3. Privacy as a tool for ethnic discrimination and marginalization
4. Concluding thoughts
Chapter 7. Closing Remarks
Index