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Can autocrats be stopped?
And what if not?
A view from East Central Europe
Can autocrats be stopped?
And what if not?
A view from East Central Europe
The world has been experiencing a wave of autocratization at least since the global financial crisis of 2008–2009. In Hungary, this process started in 2010 when Viktor Orbán’s Fidesz gained a parliamentary majority that enabled a single political party placed under centralized top-down control to alter the constitutional system as a whole. The world since then has followed suit. Hungary has become a model for authoritarian populists across the globe. They have conquered the federal government in the US and have been exerting growing influence in key Western democracies like France, Germany, Italy and the UK. The question hence arises: Can liberal democracies deal with the seemingly ever-increasing challenge of democratically elected autocrats?
Zoltán Ádám works as senior research fellow at ELTE Centre for Social Sciences, Budapest, and is Fellow of the academic year 2025/2026 at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin.
Moderation: Tobias Haberkorn
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