The Illiberal Memory Politics in Hungary

1. Introduction: illiberal democracy in Hungary?

In social sciences literature, numerous attempts have been made to capture the political essence and features of Hungary’s ‘illiberal’ regime but few were aimed at analyzing specific public policy fields in the illiberal democracy. This paper analyses the cultural policy of the Orbán regime, focusing on the role of ideology. A qualitative case study based on document analysis looks at the legit...

Histories that Matter: Illiberal Politics and National Legacies in the New Europe

Expertise ex Stellis : Comets , Horoscopes , and Politics in Renaissance Hungary

Martin Bylica became the favorite court astrologer to the Hungarian king Matthias Corvinus in 1468 and then enjoyed royal patronage throughout the remainder of Corvinus’s reign. Initially, Bylica’s success at the Corvinian court was based on his performance before the Hungarian diet, where he used an astrolabe to solve a technical astrological problem: rectifying a natal horoscope. Once he had ...

The Global Importance of Illiberal Moderates

In contrast to the claim that the most significant fault line in contemporary global affairs is between the civilisation of the West and all others, this essay argues that the schism between those who advance their values through violence and those who rely on persuasion, both of which are present in all civilisations, is the greatest source of conflict in the post-Cold-War era. Moderates come ...

Rock and the Politics of Memory