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Zack Beauchamp on the American Right’s Embrace of the Hungarian Regime of Viktor Orbán

The Lawfare Podcast

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The Transition From Communism to Democracy in Hungary

When he was out of power, orbon developed an increasingly authoritarian and right wing world view. He then went about re writing the rules of the game in order to insure that he would never lose power again through free and fair elections. The term for it is competitive authoritarianism. That's what political scientists call this kind of system. It means a system where elections still matter, the outcome is still important.

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