Sebők, Miklós and Molnárné Balázs, Ágnes and Molnár, Csaba (2022) Punctuated Equilibrium and Progressive Friction in Socialist Autocracy, Democracy and Hybrid Regimes. JOURNAL OF PUBLIC POLICY, 42 (2). pp. 247-269. ISSN 0143-814X
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Abstract
The analysis of public policy agendas in comparative politics has been somewhat limited in terms of geography, time frame and political system, with studies on full-blown autocracies and hybrid regimes few and far between. This article addresses this gap by comparing policy dynamics in three Hungarian regimes over 73 years. Besides our theoretical contri- bution related to policy-making in Socialist autocracy and illiberal democracy, we also test hypotheses related to non-democratic regimes. We find that – similarly to developed democracies – policy agendas in autocracies are mostly stable with occasional but large-scale “punctuations”. Our data also confirms that these punctuations are more pro- nounced in non-democratic polities. However, based on our results, illiberal political systems, such as the hybrid regime of Viktor Orbán, are difficult to pin down on such a clear-cut continuum between democracy and autocracy as the level of punctuation differs by policy agendas from parliamentary debates to budgets.
Item Type: | Article |
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Subjects: | J Political Science / politológia > JA Political science (General) / politológia általában |
SWORD Depositor: | MTMT SWORD |
Depositing User: | MTMT SWORD |
Date Deposited: | 21 Dec 2022 07:14 |
Last Modified: | 21 Dec 2022 07:14 |
URI: | http://real.mtak.hu/id/eprint/155290 |
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