A demokrácia állagromlása és az autokratizálódás alternatívái. Megjegyzések Kis János rendszertipológiájához
The deterioration of democracy and the alternatives of autocratization in Hungary. Notes on János Kis’s system typology

Summary/Abstract: Although self-defined by a new constitution and the so-called System of National Cooperation (NER), Viktor Orbán’s regime is indeed one of the regimes of uncertain identity. Therefore, it is understandable that system critics try to grasp the essence and characteristics of the regime and to categorize the regime according to system typologies. János Kis interprets the Orbán regime as a non-democratic (anti-democratic) autocracy and an authoritarian system with limited competitive elections. János Kis’s system typology uses descriptors of democracy as “low quality”, “poor quality”, “extremely poor quality”, “unusually low quality” or even “worst quality”, but these terms remain undefined; nor are they used to test the Orban regime, thus precluding the possibility of changing models within Hungarian democracy. Kis also ignores the distortions of Hungarian democracy before 2010 and the non-regime factors that contributed to the election victories of the Orbán regime.

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