Kormányzó populizmus – A Fidesz ellenség- és identitáskonstruáló populizmusa
Governing Populism. Fidesz’s hostile and identity-construct populism

Summary/Abstract: The term “populism” is often interpreted as an idiosyncrasy of illiberal, authoritarian and other adjective-equipped non-liberal democracies. Approaches like this tend to neglect the difference between democracy types and identify liberal democracy as “the” democracy while populism is interpreted as an anti-democratic, anti-pluralist and anti-liberal concept. After conceptualizing the notion of populism, the study investigates how the categories of “we” and “they” are filled with content in the case of the populism of Hungary’s governing right-wing, thus also discussing Fidesz’ populism as a political logic and discourse. After that, it analyzes Fidesz’ and the right-wing government’s enemy construction processes, including their methods and interpretations. Finally, the study concludes that Fidesz’ populist discourse and political logic increasingly replaced the pre-2010 exclusive variant by exclusionary populism after the party got into government.

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