Concept and Varieties of Illiberalism

Zsolt Enyedi
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Zsolt Enyedi: Political Science Department, Central European University, Austria

Politics and Governance, 2024, vol. 12

Abstract: This article discusses various conceptualizations of illiberalism and adopts a definition that equates the concept with the negation of three liberal democratic principles: limited power, a neutral state, and an open society. The second part of the article explores the implications of this definitional strategy for empirical research, describes the relationship between populism, authoritarianism, and illiberalism, and identifies nine distinct routes to illiberalism: authoritarian, traditionalist, religious, libertarian, nativist-nationalist, populist, paternalist, materialist-technocratic, and left-wing.

Keywords: authoritarianism; illiberalism; liberal democracy; open society; populism; state neutrality (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.17645/pag.8521

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