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The Political Economy of Hungary Adam Fabry

The Political Economy of Hungary By Adam Fabry

The Political Economy of Hungary by Adam Fabry


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This book explores the political economy of Hungary from the mid-1970s to the present.

The Political Economy of Hungary Summary

The Political Economy of Hungary: From State Capitalism to Authoritarian Neoliberalism by Adam Fabry

This book explores the political economy of Hungary from the mid-1970s to the present. Widely considered a 'poster boy' of neoliberal transformation in post-communist Eastern Europe until the mid-2000s, Hungary has in recent years developed into a model 'illiberal' regime. Constitutional checks-and-balances are non-functioning; the independent media, trade unions, and civil society groups are constantly attacked by the authorities; there is widespread intolerance against minorities and refugees; and the governing FIDESZ party, led by Prime Minister Viktor Orban, controls all public institutions and increasingly large parts of the country's economy. To make sense of the politico-economical roller coaster that Hungary has experienced in the last four decades, Fabry employs a Marxian political economy approach, emphasising competitive accumulation, class struggle (both between capital and labour, as well as different 'fractions of capital'), and uneven and combined development. The author analyses the neoliberal transformation of the Hungarian political economy and argues that the drift to authoritarianism under the Orban regime cannot be explained as a case of Hungarian exceptionalism, but rather represents an outcome of the inherent contradictions of the variety of neoliberalism that emerged in Hungary after 1989.

About Adam Fabry

Adam Fabry is Research Fellow for the Technical Research Council in the Centre for Study on Culture and Society at National University of Cordoba, Argentina. He currently researches the comparative political economy of neoliberalism in Eastern Europe and Latin America. He has previously published in journals, such as Capital & Class, Competition & Change, and Eszmelet, as well as blog posts for LeftEast and Jacobin.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction.- 2. Rethinking the Political Economy of Neoliberal Transformation in Central and Eastern Europe.- Chapter 3: The Pre-1989 Origins of Neoliberalism in Hungary.- 4. The Neoliberal Reconfiguration of the Hungarian Political Economy, 1990-2006.- 5. From Poster Boy to Basket Case: Hungary and the Global Economic Crisis, 2007-10.- 6. The Consolidation of the Orban Regime.- 7. Towards 'Authoritarian-Ethnicist Neoliberalism'?.- 8. Conclusions.

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NPB9783030105938
9783030105938
3030105938
The Political Economy of Hungary: From State Capitalism to Authoritarian Neoliberalism by Adam Fabry
New
Hardback
Springer Nature Switzerland AG
2019-04-13
170
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