Enyedi, Zsolt2025-03-242025-03-242024-02-131356-977510.1080/13569775.2023.2296742https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14018/26627Publisher Copyright: © 2024 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.The paper argues for an ideology-centred interpretation of the Orbán regime. Those regimes are considered ideology-centred that promote a particular worldview through discourse, consequential policies and the allocation of resources. In addition to demonstrating that Hungary after 2010 satisfies these criteria, I identify three principal ideological modules of the regime: illiberal conservatism, civilisationist ethnocentrism, and paternalist populism.enginfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessHungaryIlliberalismautocratizationpolitical ideologiespopulismSociology and Political SciencePolitical Science and International RelationsJournal articlehttp://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85185486383&partnerID=8YFLogxKEnyedi, Z 2024, 'Illiberal conservatism, civilisationalist ethnocentrism, and paternalist populism in Orbán's Hungary', Contemporary Politics, vol. 30, no. 4, pp. 494-511. https://doi.org/10.1080/13569775.2023.2296742unpaywall: 10.1080/13569775.2023.2296742181844243