The paper explores the long-term trajectory and the recent acceleration of the conflict over
the rule of law in the EU. It focusses on the motivation of the two governments in Hungary …

Studies of the Global Right usually trace its intellectual underpinnings to the revolutionary
conservative New Right and its ideas claiming to defend an 'ethno-pluralist'European …

From a world society perspective, common national educational developments are driven by
global cultural models that dominated an international liberal order. These models …

While interest in illiberalism has increased in recent years, the study of the connections
between anti-gender discourse and transnational dissemination is a more recent scholarly …

In the advanced peripheral economies of East-Central Europe, right-wing populist parties
have increasingly politicized the dualism between larger, export-competitive foreign-owned …

Populism is principally a political phenomenon; yet, the economic implications of populist
rule can be substantial, as underlined by the Polish and Hungarian cases. By …

The specificity of political and economic changes in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) over
the past decade requires detailed theoretical analysis and in-depth empirical research. In …

The paper explores how the leaders of parliamentary represented parties in Bulgaria
discussed Fidesz's policies in the period 2010-2019. Furthermore, it attempts to explain why …

Most research on post-socialist civil society has focused on analysing the characteristics that
explain (the lack of) civic strength. Although recent research has highlighted the rise of …

This introductory chapter argues that the term illiberal (ism) provides a new frame for
understanding societal change. In contrast to existing concepts, illiberalism recenters our …