Weber és az Orbán-rezsim: plebiszciter vezérdemokrácia Magyarországon
Weber and the Orbán-regime: leader democracy in Hungary

Summary/Abstract: There is a rising literature on the shift from democracy to mixed or authoritarian regimes, often referring to post-2010 Hungary as an example. This paper aims to understand, describe and analyse the Orbán regime by using the Weberian concept of plebiscitary leader democracy. First, it explores the theory of plebiscitary leader democracy. Second, it reveals the analytical virtues of this theory through applying it in a case study. The paper concludes that the combination of democratic legitimacy and authoritarian rule in plebiscitary leader democracy is not an outcome of a pathological conjunction of things, but an endogenous feature of the regime

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