The Political Economy of Hungarian Authoritarian Populism

This book emphasises the importance of state-business relations and external capital for structuring and strengthening authoritarian populism in Hungary. It argues these capitalist relations are crucial to understanding the economic aspects of this ideology, which has developed in the country since 2010.

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Samuel Rogers is a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the School of Social Sciences and Global Studies at The Open University, UK and a Visiting Scholar at the Institute for East European Studies, Free University of Berlin, Germany

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Introduction: The political economy of Hungarian authoritarian populism: capitalists without the right kind of capital

Part I: Capitalists without the right kind of capital: state-business relations under (Hungarian) authoritarian populism

Chapter one: The development of (Hungarian) authoritarian populism

Chapter two: Capitalists without the right kind of capital

Part II: Hungarian authoritarian populism at work: internal and external considerations

Chapter three: Fidesz and national capital: the government subsumes domestic business

Chapter four: Fidesz and Russian capital: The Paks II extension

Chapter five: Fidesz and Chinese capital: The Belgrade-Budapest railway upgrade

Part III: Authoritarian populism travels

Chapter six: The political economy of authoritarian populism: future trajectories

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