Globalization and Support for Democracy in Post-Communist Europe
Globalization and Support for Democracy in Post-Communist Europe

Summary/Abstract: Several popular votes in 2016 showed that there is growing support for political forces and ideas that conflict with liberal democracy. Candidates and political movements with clear anti-minority attitudes scored victories and gained momentum in the Western world. The presidential elections in the USA or Austria and the referendum in the United Kingdom are just a few examples. In Central Europe the same political attitudes find representation in politicians like Viktor Orban in Hungary or Jaroslaw Kaczynski in Poland, to name the two best known examples. However, all post-communist countries have at least one political party exhibiting anti-democratic attitudes and with varying levels of appeal.

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