I had a lecture at 81st Annual Midwest Political Science Association Conference, April 4-7, 2024, Chicago, IL.
Law and Democracy under the Pressure of Extraordinary Governance Measures. The Extraordinary Governance Measures in Hungary
The authoritarian
populist right-wing has rapidly reborn in the field of authoritarian state and
emergency governance, moreover the COVID-19 crisis gave a new rise this
phenomenon mainly at the expense of civil society. The failures of liberal
democracy opened the way of authoritarian populist right-wing populism in
Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), which on the one hand remained integrated
into the neoliberal capitalism and on the other hand dismantled the legal basis
of liberal constitutionalism. Investigating the authoritarian populist regime in
Hungary, it has been argued that Hungarian authoritarian populism established
this politics from the migration crisis of 2015 on the permanent state of
exception and extraordinary governance measures (EGMs). The COVID-19 crisis and
the war offered a new opportunity to maintain and extend the emergency
measures. Prime Minister, Viktor Orbán found the way to capitalize the pandemic
crisis and introduced the overlapping exceptional measures. Relying on the
political theoretical and legal concept of exceptional governance, it has been
argued and analysed in this paper that the new forms of authoritarianism in
Hungary is based on the extraordinary measures.
