The Hungarian Authoritarian Populism and Exceptional Governance Before and After the Outbreak of the Pandemic

Antal, Attila (2022) The Hungarian Authoritarian Populism and Exceptional Governance Before and After the Outbreak of the Pandemic. In: Central and Eastern European Forum for Legal, Political, and Social Theory Yearbook. Peter Lang. (Submitted)

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Abstract

This paper examines how the authoritarian populism in Hungary started to use the framework of exceptional governance before the pandemic and how the use of these extraordinary tools has been perpetuated upon the case of COVID-19. It has been argued here that the concept of constitutional dictatorship proved to be a constitutional and political framework for Orbán’s authoritarian populist regime to introduce the exceptional measures. First, the theoretical considerations behind the rise of authoritarian populism have been investigated here. After that, it has been emphasized how the regime itself started to be constitutionalized and how exceptional governance has become the main political framework for authoritarian populism. The paper explores how exceptional governance began to be institutionalised before the pandemic and how COVID-19 accelerated it. The Hungarian case shows that neoliberalism facilitates authoritarian populism to use the tools of exceptional governance.

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