Emergency Power in Hungary and the COVID-19 Crisis

• In Event: COVID-19 in East-Central Europe: Diverse Policy Responses to the Pandemic

Abstract

This paper argues that COVID-19 pandemic offered to Viktor Orbán’s regime in Hungary the opportunity to capitalize on the crisis and introduce long-lasting exceptional measures, and thus authoritarian populism in that country entered a new phase in which the use of emergency power will be crucial.

Author

• Attila Antal, Eötvös Loránd U (Hungary)