This book gives the first comprehensive and theoretically substantiated political science
account of the Orbán regime in English. It argues that Viktor Orbán's regime-building and …

Liberal democracy is at risk. Its hallmark institutions-political pluralism, separation of powers,
and rule of law-are coming under pressure, as authoritarian sentiment is growing around the …

Institutions are made up of the interplay of three components:(i) formal rules,(ii) actual
practices, and (iii) narratives (the last two are referred to jointly as informal institutional …

This chapter provides an overview of the constitutional developments that have taken place
in Hungary over the last 30 years. To understand the background, it starts with a short history …

Das Kapitel gibt einen Überblick über die ungarische Verfassungspolitik seit 1989. Zunächst
wird erläutert, wie eine Verfassung für eine liberale Demokratie entstand, die sich am …

This chapter presents a comparison of policy agenda dynamics in the liberal and illiberal
periods of Hungarian democracy after the regime change of 1990. Our main findings are that …

This chapter provides an overview of Hungarian constitutional politics since 1989. First, it
explains how a constitution for a liberal democracy emerged, which was modeled on the …

The term “political governance”(in Hungarian: politikai kormányzás) sounds familiar to the
observers of Hungarian politics. At first, the governance of Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsány …

Abstract The Hungarian People's Republic (1949–1989) was an autocratic regime governed
by the state party (Hungarian Working People's Party; from 1956 on: Hungarian Socialist …

My research focuses on analyzing of the explanatory memorandum of bills, one of the
guarantee elements of quality legislation. I have set out to examine a long-standing problem …