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The Illiberal Turn or Swerve in Central Europe?
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SYSNO ASEP 0484047 Document Type J - Journal Article R&D Document Type The record was not marked in the RIV Subsidiary J Článek ve WOS Title The Illiberal Turn or Swerve in Central Europe? Author(s) Buštíková, L. (US)
Guasti, Petra (SOU-Z) RID, ORCID, SAISource Title Politics and Governance. - : Cogitatio Press - ISSN 2183-2463
Roč. 5, č. 4 (2017), s. 166-176Number of pages 10 s. Publication form Print - P Language eng - English Country GB - United Kingdom Keywords Czech Republic ; democracy ; democratic consolidation Subject RIV AD - Politology ; Political Sciences OECD category Political science R&D Projects GA16-04885S GA ČR - Czech Science Foundation (CSF) Institutional support SOU-Z - RVO:68378025 UT WOS 000422683100006 EID SCOPUS 85039913318 DOI 10.17645/pag.v5i4.1156 Annotation Scholars are coming to terms with the fact that something is rotten in the new democracies of Central Europe. The corrosion has multiple symptoms: declining trust in democratic institutions, emboldened uncivil society, the rise of oligarchs and populists as political leaders, assaults on an independent judiciary, the colonization of public administration by political proxies, increased political control over media, civic apathy, nationalistic contestation and Russian meddling. These processes signal that the liberal-democratic project in the so-called Visegrad Four (the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia) has been either stalled, diverted or reversed. This article investigates the “illiberal turn” in the Visegrad Four (V4) countries. It develops an analytical distinction between illiberal “turns” and “swerves”, with the former representing more permanent political changes, and offers evidence that Hungary is the only country in the V4 at the brink of a decisive illiberal turn. Workplace Institute of Sociology Contact Eva Nechvátalová, eva.nechvatalova@soc.cas.cz, Tel.: 222 220 924 / linka 351 Year of Publishing 2018 Electronic address https://www.cogitatiopress.com/politicsandgovernance/article/view/1156
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