Illiberalism is an emerging concept in social sciences that remains to be tested by different
disciplines and approaches. Here, I advance a fine-grained frame that should help to …

The COVID-19 pandemic represents a new and unparalleled stress-test for the already
disrupted liberal-representative, democracies. The challenges cluster around three …

Scholarly attention has started to shift from democratization and democratic consolidation to
trends of democratic deconsolidation, backsliding, regression, and erosion. This article …

This chapter aims to briefly map out what scholars say populism is. It focuses on how
populists use the media. Sociologists and historians first used the concept of populism to …

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 …

What are the geopolitical risk implications related to the war in Ukraine for the raw material
and energy policies of countries highly dependent on Russia? This paper looks at the …

Democratic regression has become a worrying phenomenon in the last years. Social
science has provided a variety of explanations why democratic regimes have lost …

While the spread of neoliberal ideas through networks has attracted much attention
worldwide, the ideational content of the recent counter-waves to liberal democracy has still …

Combining the insights of EU-specific research on backsliding and coalitions with the
literature on the international collaboration of autocrats, we argue that right-wing political …

While state-society relations in Turkey have historically been topdown and coups dTétat
periodically interrupted democratic politics, the recent authoritarian turn under Erdoğan is …