Transnational complicity in democratic backsliding
- 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.
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| Author: | Fabio Wolkenstein |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-611547 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.21248/gjn.12.02.206 |
| ISSN: | 1835-6842 |
| Parent Title (English): | Global justice : theory, practice, rhetoric |
| Publisher: | The Global Justice Network |
| Document Type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2020/11/15 |
| Date of first Publication: | 2020/11/15 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
| Release Date: | 2021/06/10 |
| Tag: | European Union; complicity; democratic backsliding; partisanship; transnationalism |
| Volume: | 12.2020 |
| Issue: | 2 |
| Page Number: | 24 |
| First Page: | 117 |
| Last Page: | 140 |
| HeBIS-PPN: | 482003383 |
| Institutes: | Gesellschaftswissenschaften / Gesellschaftswissenschaften |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 3 Sozialwissenschaften / 30 Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie / 300 Sozialwissenschaften |
| 3 Sozialwissenschaften / 34 Recht / 340 Recht | |
| Sammlungen: | Universitätspublikationen |
| Licence (German): |  Deutsches Urheberrecht |
