Governing Illiberal Democracies: Democratic Backsliding and the Political Appointment of Top Officials in Hungary

Meyer-Sahling Jan-Hinrik and Toth Fanni
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Meyer-Sahling Jan-Hinrik: School of Politics and International Relations, Nottingham University, United Kingdom.
Toth Fanni: Loughborough University, United Kingdom.

NISPAcee Journal of Public Administration and Policy, 2020, vol. 13, issue 2, 93-113

Abstract: This paper examines the impact of democratic backsliding on the management of top officials in Hungary. Based on a unique data set of more than 1,600 top officials the article shows that the number of appointments to top positions increased in 2010 and subsequent years, during which Hungary experienced democratic back-sliding. Moreover, the data shows that turnover in top official positions was higher in 2010 and in subsequent years than in the period between 1990 and 2010. The paper concludes that the politicisation and high degree of instability in top official positions may be characteristic of governance in illiberal democracies.

Keywords: Democratic backsliding; political appointments; politicisation; top officials; Hungary (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.2478/nispa-2020-0016

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