Full Description
This book emphasises the importance of state-business relations and external capital for structuring and strengthening authoritarian populism in Hungary. It argues these capitalist relations are crucial to understanding the economic aspects of this ideology, which has developed in the country since 2010. The book investigates both 'internal' and 'external' legs of the Hungarian political economy. First how a politically loyal national capital owning class has subsumed domestic business. Second the government's operationalisation of 'new' inward transnational capital inflows - especially from China and Russia - to finance large-scale infrastructure projects, which complement extant investment particularly from Germany. Together, these developments have strengthened the hegemonic nature of Hungarian Authoritarian Populism, helping the government to continued electoral success. This model of governance is attractive to similar ideological expressions in the region and beyond who look for an example to emulate.
The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license.
Contents
Acknowledgements
List of Tables
List of Figures
Introduction: The political economy of Hungarian authoritarian populism: capitalists without the right kind of capital
Part I: Capitalists without the right kind of capital: state-business relations under (Hungarian) authoritarian populism
Chapter one: The development of (Hungarian) authoritarian populism
Chapter two: Capitalists without the right kind of capital
Part II: Hungarian authoritarian populism at work: internal and external considerations
Chapter three: Fidesz and national capital: the government subsumes domestic business
Chapter four: Fidesz and Russian capital: The Paks II extension
Chapter five: Fidesz and Chinese capital: The Belgrade-Budapest railway upgrade
Part III: Authoritarian populism travels
Chapter six: The political economy of authoritarian populism: future trajectories
Index
