A jövő háborúi - mesterséges intelligencia, drónok és kiberfegyverek Kiberfegyverek: az egyre égetőbb virtuális hadszíntér Nincs még a küszöbön a nemzetközi kibervédelmi megállapodás Az amerikai hadsereg kiberparancsnokságának kapacitásairól és partneri kapcsolatáról...

The paper provides a case study on how the Orban regime in Hungary has dealt with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in 2020-2021. Despite having led worldwide rankings in pandemic-related death rates since the second part of 2020, the government was not politically shaken by COVID-19....

We compare the pre- and post-2010 Hungarian political regimes through the lens of pension policies. We label the pre-2010 regime as democratic populist because it was characterized by fi scally irresponsible policies, yet it maintained the system of checks and balances and the rule of law. In...

Research on populism has gained importance in the light of the recent global populist surge. Political scientists have become concerned with the problem of authoritarian populism, examining how illiberal, anti-pluralist populist parties have degraded liberal democracies. Economic research on...

Based on the theory of transaction cost economics, the paper argues that by vertically organizing political exchange, populist regimes reduce market-type political transaction costs – primarily bargaining, enforcement and information costs – prevalent in democracy. However, management-type...

This paper conceptualizes populism in an institutional economics context. Examining the literature on populism in political science, it subscribes to the view that populism is a degraded form of democracy that holds elections in regular intervals as rituals of popular legitimation, but...

In this paper, we analyze Hungarian pension policies between 1998 and 2017, comparing the pre- and post-2010 periods. Before 2010, Hungary was a liberal democracy dominated by populist economic policies. We call this the period of democratic populism. After 2010, with center-right but illiberal...

In this paper, we analyze Hungarian pension policies between 1998 and 2017, comparing the pre- and post-2010 periods. Before 2010, Hungary was a liberal democracy dominated by populist economic policies. We call this the period of democratic populism. After 2010, with center-right but illiberal...