The Political Economy of Hungarian Authoritarian Populism

Capitalists without the Right Kind of Capital

Samuel Rogers (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

196 Seiten

2024
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-367-75270-5 (ISBN)

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This book emphasises the importance of state-business relations and external capital for structuring and strengthening authoritarian populism in Hungary. It argues these capitalist relations are crucial to understanding the economic aspects of this ideology, which has developed in the country since 2010. The book investigates both ‘internal’ and ‘external’ legs of the Hungarian political economy. First how a politically loyal national capital owning class has subsumed domestic business. Second the government’s operationalisation of ‘new’ inward transnational capital inflows – especially from China and Russia – to finance large-scale infrastructure projects, which complement extant investment particularly from Germany. Together, these developments have strengthened the hegemonic nature of Hungarian Authoritarian Populism, helping the government to continued electoral success. This model of governance is attractive to similar ideological expressions in the region and beyond who look for an example to emulate.

Samuel Rogers is a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the School of Social Sciences and Global Studies at The Open University, UK and a Visiting Scholar at the Institute for East European Studies, Free University of Berlin, Germany

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List of Tables

List of Figures

Introduction: The political economy of Hungarian authoritarian populism: capitalists without the right kind of capital

Part I: Capitalists without the right kind of capital: state-business relations under (Hungarian) authoritarian populism

Chapter one: The development of (Hungarian) authoritarian populism

Chapter two: Capitalists without the right kind of capital

Part II: Hungarian authoritarian populism at work: internal and external considerations

Chapter three: Fidesz and national capital: the government subsumes domestic business

Chapter four: Fidesz and Russian capital: The Paks II extension

Chapter five: Fidesz and Chinese capital: The Belgrade-Budapest railway upgrade

Part III: Authoritarian populism travels

Chapter six: The political economy of authoritarian populism: future trajectories

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Erscheinungsdatum	24.07.2024
Reihe/Serie	BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies
Zusatzinfo	15 Tables, black and white; 8 Halftones, black and white; 8 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	548 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
Themenwelt	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Wirtschaftspolitik
ISBN-10	0-367-75270-0 / 0367752700
ISBN-13	978-0-367-75270-5 / 9780367752705
Zustand	Neuware