TY  - JOUR
A1  - Wolkenstein, Fabio
T1  - Transnational complicity in democratic backsliding
T2  - Global justice : theory, practice, rhetoric
N2  - Recent developments in Hungary and Poland have made democratic backsliding a major issue of concern within the European Union (EU). This article focuses on the secondary agents that facilitate democratic backsliding in Hungary and Poland: the European People’s Party (EPP), which has continually protected the Hungarian Fidesz government from EU sanctions, and the Hungarian ruling party Fidesz, which repeatedly promised to block any EU-level sanctions against Poland in the Council. The article analyses these agents’ behaviour as an instance of transnational complicity and passes a tentative judgment as to which of the two cases is normatively more problematic. The analysis has implications for possible countervailing responses to democratic backsliding within EU member states.
KW  - democratic backsliding
KW  - European Union
KW  - partisanship
KW  - complicity
KW  - transnationalism
Y1  - 2020
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/61154
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-611547
SN  - 1835-6842
VL  - 12.2020
IS  - 2
SP  - 117
EP  - 140
PB  - The Global Justice Network
ER  -