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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Ágh, Attila
• Lisi, Marco

Titel

The Hungarian party system from soft to hard populism

Ist Teil von

• Party System Change, the European Crisis and the State of Democracy, 2019, p.137-154

Auflage

1

Ort / Verlag

United Kingdom: Routledge

Erscheinungsjahr

2019

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The Hungarian party system experienced a big turning in 2010 with the shift from the first party system to the second party system, which took place parallel with the transition from soft populism to hard populism in the Hungarian political system. Despite the obvious idiosyncrasies of the individual countries, the Hungarian party system has showed a striking similarity with the other East-Central European (ECE) party systems. The other contextual framework is the EU membership, but it has not influenced the Hungarian party system as much as it could have been expected. The European framework has just scratched the surface of the Hungarian party structures; therefore, the general divergence between Hungary and the EU mainstream developments can be easily followed from the Hungarian party developments. This chapter examines party system change and the present worsening situation in the Hungarian political system, based on the large consent in the big international ranking institutes – Bertelsmann Foundation, Fidesz, after the critical elections in 2010. It shows that "over-particization", a quasi-monopolization of the political scene by the ECE parties, has been the megatrend in the Hungarian party developments, and it has generated the alienation of population from politics. The Hungarian party system experienced a big turning in 2010 with the shift from the first party system to the second party system, which took place parallel with the transition from soft populism to hard populism in the Hungarian political system. The soft and hard populism has to be distinguished not only analytically, but also historically. The soft populism came to the surface with the deep people-elite dichotomy by the actual reduction of politics' arena.