The National-Populist Mutation of Neoliberalism

In this contribution to ISRF Bulletin 24, Gábor Scheiring inquires into the nature of the specific form of national-populist neoliberalism that has emerged in Hungary under Viktor Orbán’s leadership.
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In this contribution to ISRF Bulletin 24, Gábor Scheiring inquires into the nature of the specific form of national-populist neoliberalism that has emerged in Hungary under Viktor Orbán’s leadership.
In April 2021, former ISRF Fellow Gábor Scheiring discussed his book The Retreat of Liberal Democracy: Authoritarian Capitalism and the Accumulative State in Hungary with Chris Hann and Sherrill Stroschein.
Fighting populism requires us to recognise its embeddedness in business elites. Viktor Orbán’s regime is a case in point.