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Illiberal Democracies

ABOUT Illiberal Democracies
After two parliamentary victories in 2010 and 2014, Viktor Orbán has been breaching many democratic principles in Hungary, leaving the rest of the EU pondering how to react to the rising popularity of illiberal democracy.

The aim of the project is to look at the problem from a broader perspective and systematically compare anti-liberal political tendencies and populism in EU member states and to analyze the risks of the strengthening of authoritarian-majoritarian views in Central and Eastern European countries with special attention to Hungary.

The project is led by the Hungarian Europe Society.
Visit their website: http://www.europesociety.hu
The Eurozone Crisis and EU’s “Sins of Illiberalism”
Politics
The Eurozone Crisis and EU’s “Sins of Illiberalism”
BY Othon Anastasakis AND Illiberal Democracies / July 5, 2015
We are witnessing the EU’s declining normative influence in three levels: inner circle of membership, middle circle of prospective members and outer circle of neighbourhood, and is expressed in the primacy of hard core economics, the weaker promotion of democracy, the inefficient political conditionality and the gradual realisation that illiberalism is becoming a threatening part of several national competitive politics.
The Third People’s Party: Seven Theses on Western European Right Wing Populists
Politics
The Third People’s Party: Seven Theses on Western European Right Wing Populists
BY Timo Lochocki AND Illiberal Democracies / June 30, 2015
Much has been written on the reasons for the rise and fall or right-wing populist parties in Western Europe, as the French Front National (FN) or the United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP). However, most of these commentaries are not based on empirical research. The presented overview highlights the seven factors which comparative research defines as decisive for the electoral fortunes of right-wing populist parties in Western Europe.