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Right-wing authoritarian innovations in Central and Eastern Europe
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East European Politics
Publication Volume
36
Publication Issue
3
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http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14018/13869
Abstract
The decline of the quality of democracy in Central and Eastern Europe was facilitated by intellectual, ideological, and organizational innovations of a new authoritarian elite. I this article I discuss five such innovations: a particular combination of victim mentality, self-confidence and resentment against the West, the transformation of neighbor-hating nationalisms into a civilizationist anti-immigrant platform, the delegitimization of civil society and the return to the belief in a strong state, the resurrection of the Christian political identity, and the transformation of populist discourse into a language and organizational strategy that is compatible with governmental roles (“populist establishment”). These factors together point to an overarching ideological fame that I call paternalist populism.
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Journal article
Date
2020
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10.1080/21599165.2020.1787162