The Resilience of the Hungarian Court System Between 2012 and 2020

Bencze, Mátyás (2024) The Resilience of the Hungarian Court System Between 2012 and 2020. In: The Resilience of the Hungarian Legal System since 2010. A Failed Resilience? European Union and its Neighbours in a Globalized World (5). Springer Nature, Wien, pp. 161-176. ISBN 9783031704505; 9783031704536; 9783031704512

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Abstract

In this chapter, I will first outline the political challenges the Hungarian court system has faced since 2010 and also present the characteristics of the organizational setting of the administration of justice, which has been a decisive factor in the response to those challenges. I will then turn to a discussion of how the relationship between the political system and the courts has changed since 2010. Using statistical methods and content analysis, I will prove the hypothesis that sporadic governmental expressions of opinion on certain judicial decisions before 2010 have been replaced by the systematic assertion of the interests of political power in public communication to the courts since the change of government in 2010. I will then describe the reactions of the domestic judicial leadership and use content analysis to identify the extent and nature of the reactions and how the strength of the resistance has changed over time. Finally, I draw conclusions about the factors that influence the preservation of the resilience of the judiciary.

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