Illiberal challenges to mainstream public management research: Hungary as an exemplary case

Hajnal, György (2021) Illiberal challenges to mainstream public management research: Hungary as an exemplary case. PUBLIC MANAGEMENT REVIEW, 23 (3). pp. 317-325. ISSN 1471-9037

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Abstract

The apparently successful early years of post-transition democratization and consolidation of Hungary's system of governance gave space, increasingly, to a remarkable fatigue and stagnation of the post-accession years. This was the starting point of the genuine and drastic transformation of governance and of the entirety of state-society relations having taken place since 2010. The article argues that Hungary's public management landscape is dominated by this grand illiberal transformation; that the significance of this transformation extends well beyond the region; and that this significance is not only practical but poses true challenges to mainstream theorizing in public management, too.

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