How has populism transformed party systems in Europe? I survey the varieties of populism,
the sources of their support and the different ways that they appeal to voters. I use data from …

Ethnopopulism is an elite strategy for winning votes and concentrating power–a common
playbook for the erosion of liberal democracy that is empowered and justified by a …

This book is the product of three years of empirical research, four years in politics and a
lifetime in a country experiencing three different politicaleconomic regimes. It brings together …

This essay introduces contributions to a special issue of East European Politics on
“Rethinking democratic backsliding in Central and Eastern Europe”, which seeks to expand …

Across Europe and many other parts of the world, traditional parties of the left seem to be in
terminal decline. While there are many reasons for this, we argue that the most important …

From the co-authors of the classic Civil Society and Political Theory, Populism and Civil
Society offers an empirically informed, systematic theoretical analysis of the political …

ABSTRACT Since 2008, Hungary and Poland have developed a distinctive populist
economic program, which has begun to spread to other Central and East European …

This book gives the first comprehensive and theoretically substantiated political science
account of the Orbán regime in English. It argues that Viktor Orbán's regime-building and …

We argue that the World Bank has successfully marshaled the Ease of Doing Business
(EDB) Index to amass considerable influence over business regulations worldwide. The …

This article presents and empirically substantiates a theoretical account explaining the
making and stabilisation of illiberal hegemony in Hungary. It combines a Polanyian …