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Brave New Hungary - Mapping the "System of National Cooperation" (Hardcover)
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Brave New Hungary - Mapping the "System of National Cooperation" (Hardcover)
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Brave New Hungary focuses on the rise of a "brave new" anti-liberal
regime led by Viktor Orban 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 Orban 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.
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