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Right-wing authoritarian innovations in Central and Eastern Europe
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East-Central Europe
Orban
Populism
ideology
nationalism
political Christianity
Geography, Planning and Development
Development
Political Science and International Relations
Orban
Populism
ideology
nationalism
political Christianity
Geography, Planning and Development
Development
Political Science and International Relations
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https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14018/26620
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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2020-07-02
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10.1080/21599165.2020.1787162