Hungary: History as a Legitimizing Precedent – “Illiberal Democracy”
Hungary: History as a Legitimizing Precedent – “Illiberal Democracy”
Author(s): Gerhard SeewannSubject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, History, Scientific Life
Published by: Verlag Herder-Institut
Keywords: Hungary; History; Legitimizing Precedent; “Illiberal Democracy”;
Summary/Abstract: A regime that is committed to “national rebirth” must necessarily find historical justifications for its politics and use history as a mythologized collection of examples from which it can take elements it deems useful for its own policies.
Journal: Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung
- Issue Year: 67/2018
- Issue No: 2
- Page Range: 239-249
- Page Count: 11
- Language: English
