Chances for Democracy in Europe: The New Wave of Illiberalism in Post-Communist Countries [Hardcover]

At the turn of Twenty-First Century, no one could have believed that by a decade later, the prime minister of Hungary would roughly declare his political and government system as an illiberal democracy.Chances for Democracy in Europe: The New Wave of Illiberalism in Post-Communist Countriesexplores the scenarios of building illiberal democracy as followed by Putin in Russia, then how it spread in the post-Communist Europe. It will be showing how a full-born illiberal democracy has unfolded in Hungary since 2010, during the last four Orb?n governments, and the similarities it shares with the Russian illiberal state. If the Treaty of Maastricht, that laid down democratic principles of the European Union, has the sufficient political and legal tools to enforce them, when they are not respected by the member states. While the EU failed in this effort with Hungary, it seems to be successful of a sort in Poland and Slovenia. The author analyses why developed Western European countries with long traditions of democratic traditions and values, have been resistant to illiberalism, and remained strong liberal democracies, but what about the countries without long traditions of democratic values?M?ria Bord?s is full professor at the Faculty of Public Governance and International Relations, at the University of Public Service, Ludovika, in Budapest, Hungary.

Bord?s offers a book examining the evolution of illiberal democracy in post-communist Europe. Bord?s analyzes divergent approaches to democracy in Europe from ancient to recent times. More specifically, she discusses the appearance of illiberal practices in post-communist social and political development during the last three decades. Special attention is paid to the emergence of illiberal political regimes in Russia under the presidency of Vladimir Putin since 2000 and in Hungary under the rule of Viktor Orb?n since 2010. Bord?s also uses other European countries for comparative purposes as illustrations. NecessalC+