This report builds on FES' previous conjoint experiment of seven European countries (Estonia, Germany, Poland, Serbia, Sweden, Spain and Ukraine) and looks in depth at the case of Hungary. It seeks to answer the question: Why do voters continue to support politicians who violate democratic principles? And is voters’ willingness to prioritize policy issues over democracy increased by polarization?
This study was written in the co-operation of FES Democracy of the Future (Vienna) and Policy Solutions (Hungary).
Authored by Elena Avramovska, András Bíró-Nagy, Ludwig List, Johanna Lutz, Milan Svolik, and Áron Szászi.
"How democratically elected politicians get away with autocratizing Hungary" can be downloaded here.
Policy Solutions is a progressive political research institute based in Budapest. It was founded in 2008 and it is committed to the values of liberal democracy, solidarity, equal opportunity, sustainability and European integration. The focus of Policy Solutions’ work is on understanding political processes in Hungary and the European Union. Among the pre-eminent areas of our research are the investigation of how the quality of democracy evolves, the analysis of factors driving euroscepticism, populism and the far-right, and election research.
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