On the Way to Limited Competitiveness: Political Consequences of the 2011 Electoral Reform in Hungary

Maškarinec, Pavel; Charvát, Jakub

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“…Orbán has since maintained the electoral standing of Fidesz in all subsequent elections and defended his two thirds majority, which made a number of constitutional changes possible. The basis for this success was the reform of the electoral law in 2011, which introduced single member districts in support of the structural majority of Fidesz (Maskarinec and Charvát 2022 ). This enabled another decisive Fidesz win with a two-third majority even against the broad all-party opposition alliance spearheaded by Peter Marky Zay, the mayor of the Southern Hungarian city Hódmezővásárhely at the national elections on 3 April 2022 (Hungary Today 2022 ).…”

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Governance under the Covid-19 pandemic: comparative perspectives on Germany and Hungary

Schweiger

2022

Z Vgl Polit Wiss

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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 potential catalyser for the weakening of democratic governance in formerly solid democratic political systems and/or as an accelerator of democratic backsliding in hybrid regimes. For this purpose, the paper examines the process and the content of legislation passed domestically to contain the effects of the pandemic. The analysis shows that even under the stronger coordination of executive decision-making between the federal and regional government level, the foundations of legislative and judicial scrutiny remained resilient during the pandemic in Germany’s multi-level polity, while in Hungary central government has used the pandemic to substantially expand its executive powers at the expense of legislative and judiciary powers.

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Section: Germany and Hungary As Contrasting Cases Of National Governancementioning

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Governance under the Covid-19 pandemic: comparative perspectives on Germany and Hungary

Schweiger

2022

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Manufacturing the Monopoly of Power: The Electoral System Change under Orbán

Charvát

2023

Springer Series in Electoral Politics

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Party system fragmentation and fractionalization in Turkey under the AKP's competitive authoritarian rule

Tanca

2024

Turkish Studies

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On the Way to Limited Competitiveness: Political Consequences of the 2011 Electoral Reform in Hungary

Abstract: This article tests the effects of a new electoral system in Hungary that was introduced by the governing FIDESZ party in 2011. We are especially concerned with the shape of single-member district (SMD) level electoral competi-

Cited by 4 publications

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Governance under the Covid-19 pandemic: comparative perspectives on Germany and Hungary

Governance under the Covid-19 pandemic: comparative perspectives on Germany and Hungary

Manufacturing the Monopoly of Power: The Electoral System Change under Orbán

Party system fragmentation and fractionalization in Turkey under the AKP's competitive authoritarian rule

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