Abstract:By adopting a comparative approach between different regime types, the paper concentrates on Germany and Hungary as case studies for the comparative analysis of the effects the pandemic has had on national governance in the two countries which most strongly represent the growing cleavage between the EU’s liberal Western core and the illiberal Central-Eastern periphery. Methodologically the analysis follows the Most Different Systems Design and examines to what extent the Covid pandemic has functioned as a pote… Show more
“…Inasmuch such dismantling is purposefully driven, this let assume that the same political leader would consider the pandemic an opportunity for further steps of executive aggradizement and justifying it with the crisis situation. Hungary is a case for that (see Schweiger 2023).…”
“…Inasmuch such dismantling is purposefully driven, this let assume that the same political leader would consider the pandemic an opportunity for further steps of executive aggradizement and justifying it with the crisis situation. Hungary is a case for that (see Schweiger 2023).…”
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