András Körösényi
Biographic Data
| ID | 275470 |
|---|---|
| NAME | András Körösényi |
| GIVEN NAMES | András |
| FAMILY NAME | Körösényi |
| SIGNATURE | KÖRÖSÉNYI A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Centre for Social Sciences |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0631-9050 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 112 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
The opportunities and constraints of successful heresthetical strategies: Attitudes, identities, and the framing of the Russian-Ukrainian war in Hungary
The touch of the leader: Representation and responsiveness in plebiscitary leader democracy
By conjoining theorizing and analyzing existing empirical research results, the article aims at situating representation and responsiveness within the Weberian notion of plebiscitary leader democracy (PLD). In unison with the ‘sensorial turn’ in political theory, it proceeds by adopting the touch metaphor as an analytical lens to help us capture aspects of responsiveness in contemporary PLD. By distinguishing between two forms of touch (‘groping …
The potentials of heresthetic and rhetoric in an open framing situation: Theory and Evidence From a Survey Experiment
To win a policy debate, political actors may apply two analytically distinct counterframing strategies, rhetoric and heresthetic. Rhetoric is when counterarguments are formulated in the original dimension of the debate, while heresthetic is using arguments in a different dimension compared to the original frame. Although both rhetoric and heresthetic are ubiquitous phenomena in the process of public opinion formation, there are no general rules t…
From the theater to the hippodrome: A critique of Jeffrey Green’s theory of plebiscitary democracy and an alternative
The article argues that the theory of plebiscitary leader democracy (PLD), originally developed by Max Weber, is in its somewhat rejuvenated version a helpful framework in interpreting longer-term and more recent empirical trends in contemporary democracies, such as the growing personalization of politics, the emergence of populist leaders, rising levels of polarization, and the growing importance of social media. However, to realize the potentia…
The Orbán Regime: Plebiscitary Leader Democracy in the Making
This book gives the first comprehensive and theoretically substantiated political science account of the Orbán regime in English. It argues that Viktor Orbán’s regime-building and reconstructive leadership is more than just an example of hybridisation, a successful populist appeal or a backlash against the earlier neoliberal hegemony in Central Europe. It unfolds the major traits of the Orbán regime and argues that it provides a paradigmatic case…
Orbán Regime: Plebiscitary Leader Democracy in the Making
The informal side of reconstructing the polity
Orban Regime
Broadening the limits of reconstructive leadership: Constructivist elements of Viktor Orbán’s regime-building politics
Hungary’s political backsliding, which has transformed it from a former frontrunner of liberal democracy in the post-communist region to an illiberal and/or authoritarian state, has puzzled political scientists. As a contribution to understanding the problem of Viktor Orbán’s leadership and the regime change, we apply Stephen Skowronek’s concept of ‘reconstructive leadership’. The politics of reconstruction, with an emphasis on the introduction o…
The Theory and Practice of Plebiscitary Leadership: Weber and the Orbán regime
Most political science interpretations of the post-2010 Orbán regime have been written either within the framework of populism or in the democratization paradigm. We have learned much from these papers about Hungary’s drift in an authoritarian direction, but they also have drawbacks. This article aims to fill the gap between these two approaches and offers a theoretical framework to analyze the impact of populism and other trends of contemporary …
Liberal and Illiberal Populism. The Leadership of Berlusconi and Orbán
The paper compares the political leadership of Silvio Berlusconi and Viktor Orbán from the beginning of their political careers to 2014, Besides giving a descriptive comparison of the Italian and Hungarian political leaders, the paper focuses on two questions: (1) the nature of their populism; (2) the quality and robustness of the changes induced by their policy. The paper concludes that both leaders introduced a new era in politics, but Orbán ha…
Variations for Inspirational Leadership: The Incumbency of Berlusconi and Orbán
The article applies Nye’s (2008, 2014) conceptual proposal for the empirical comparison of the political leadership of Silvio Berlusconi and Viktor Orbán. Nye modified Burns’ (1978) concept of transactional and transformational leaders and differentiated between inspirational and transactional leadership styles. Supplementing Nye’s conceptual–theoretical framework, the article differentiates between leadership style, policy objectives and policy …
Contingency and Political Action: The Role of Leadership in Endogenously Created Crises
Among the recent literature about leadership and crisis situations two main strands are to be observed: structuralist ones mainly treat political leaders as reactive agents who have relatively little room for maneuver, while constructivist ones put greater emphasis on the opportunities in interpreting crises. Our claim is that there is a third analytical possibility mainly neglected in recent literature that is even more voluntaristic than the co…
Democratic Elitism: New Theoretical and Comparative Perspectives
Joseph Schumpeter's “competitive theory of democracy” – often labeled democratic elitism - has struck many as an apt and insightful description of how representative democracy works, even though convinced democrats detect an elitist thrust they find disturbing. But neither Schumpeter nor subsequent defenders of democratic elitism have paid enough attention to actual behaviors of leaders and elites. Attention has been riveted on how adequately dem…
Beyond the Happy Consensus about Democratic Elitism
A growing number of studies assign elites and leaders a larger role than democratic elitism assumes. Democratic elitism is not a coherent theory because it papers over three quite distinct models of political representation and democratic control: Robert Dahl's mandate model; the accountability model associated chiefly with John Plamenatz; and the authorization model set forth by Adam Przeworski and colleagues. This last model, wherein elites and…
Political Representation in Leader Democracy
The essay focuses on the neglected problem of democratic politics, i.e. on the role of leadership. Although in democracies public office holders are controlled to a certain extent, leaders still have wide room for political manoeuvre and decide without any ‘instruction’ of the citizens. Re-working Weber's and Schumpeter's theory, the author aims to build the model of leader democracy. He highlights the major traits of it in a comparison with the …
Government and Politics in Hungary
Intellectuals and Democracy: The Political Thinking of Intellectuals
Post-Communist Transition: Emerging Pluralism in Hungary
The Reasons for the Defeat of the Right in Hungary
Intellectuals and Democracy in Eastern Europe
Stable or Fragile Democracy? Political Cleavages and Party System in Hungary
The Transition Process in Hungary Produced Well-established parties and a developed party system. Parties came into existence along political and ideological lines. Parties had an organization, party programme, membership and party discipline similar to those of political parties in the Western European countries. The organization and structure of these parties resembled those of middle-class parties more than socialist or communis/fascist partie…
Hungary
The Emergency of Plurality Trends and Movements in Hungary's Society in the Mid-1980s
Article The Emergency of Plurality Trends and Movements in Hungary’s Society in the Mid-1980s was published on November 1, 1988 in the journal Comparative Southeast European Studies (volume 37, issue 11-12)
Political Representation in Leader Democracy
The essay focuses on the neglected problem of democratic politics, i.e. on the role of leadership. Although in democracies public office holders are controlled to a certain extent, leaders still have wide room for political manoeuvre and decide without any ‘instruction’ of the citizens. Re-working Weber's and Schumpeter's theory, the author aims to build the model of leader democracy. He highlights the major traits of it in a comparison with the …
Contingency and Political Action: The Role of Leadership in Endogenously Created Crises
Among the recent literature about leadership and crisis situations two main strands are to be observed: structuralist ones mainly treat political leaders as reactive agents who have relatively little room for maneuver, while constructivist ones put greater emphasis on the opportunities in interpreting crises. Our claim is that there is a third analytical possibility mainly neglected in recent literature that is even more voluntaristic than the co…
Variations for Inspirational Leadership: The Incumbency of Berlusconi and Orbán
The article applies Nye’s (2008, 2014) conceptual proposal for the empirical comparison of the political leadership of Silvio Berlusconi and Viktor Orbán. Nye modified Burns’ (1978) concept of transactional and transformational leaders and differentiated between inspirational and transactional leadership styles. Supplementing Nye’s conceptual–theoretical framework, the article differentiates between leadership style, policy objectives and policy …
Hungary
The Theory and Practice of Plebiscitary Leadership: Weber and the Orbán regime
Most political science interpretations of the post-2010 Orbán regime have been written either within the framework of populism or in the democratization paradigm. We have learned much from these papers about Hungary’s drift in an authoritarian direction, but they also have drawbacks. This article aims to fill the gap between these two approaches and offers a theoretical framework to analyze the impact of populism and other trends of contemporary …
Liberal and Illiberal Populism. The Leadership of Berlusconi and Orbán
The paper compares the political leadership of Silvio Berlusconi and Viktor Orbán from the beginning of their political careers to 2014, Besides giving a descriptive comparison of the Italian and Hungarian political leaders, the paper focuses on two questions: (1) the nature of their populism; (2) the quality and robustness of the changes induced by their policy. The paper concludes that both leaders introduced a new era in politics, but Orbán ha…
Beyond the Happy Consensus about Democratic Elitism
A growing number of studies assign elites and leaders a larger role than democratic elitism assumes. Democratic elitism is not a coherent theory because it papers over three quite distinct models of political representation and democratic control: Robert Dahl's mandate model; the accountability model associated chiefly with John Plamenatz; and the authorization model set forth by Adam Przeworski and colleagues. This last model, wherein elites and…
Stable or Fragile Democracy? Political Cleavages and Party System in Hungary
The Transition Process in Hungary Produced Well-established parties and a developed party system. Parties came into existence along political and ideological lines. Parties had an organization, party programme, membership and party discipline similar to those of political parties in the Western European countries. The organization and structure of these parties resembled those of middle-class parties more than socialist or communis/fascist partie…
Broadening the limits of reconstructive leadership: Constructivist elements of Viktor Orbán’s regime-building politics
Hungary’s political backsliding, which has transformed it from a former frontrunner of liberal democracy in the post-communist region to an illiberal and/or authoritarian state, has puzzled political scientists. As a contribution to understanding the problem of Viktor Orbán’s leadership and the regime change, we apply Stephen Skowronek’s concept of ‘reconstructive leadership’. The politics of reconstruction, with an emphasis on the introduction o…
Democratic Elitism: New Theoretical and Comparative Perspectives
Joseph Schumpeter's “competitive theory of democracy” – often labeled democratic elitism - has struck many as an apt and insightful description of how representative democracy works, even though convinced democrats detect an elitist thrust they find disturbing. But neither Schumpeter nor subsequent defenders of democratic elitism have paid enough attention to actual behaviors of leaders and elites. Attention has been riveted on how adequately dem…
From the theater to the hippodrome: A critique of Jeffrey Green’s theory of plebiscitary democracy and an alternative
The article argues that the theory of plebiscitary leader democracy (PLD), originally developed by Max Weber, is in its somewhat rejuvenated version a helpful framework in interpreting longer-term and more recent empirical trends in contemporary democracies, such as the growing personalization of politics, the emergence of populist leaders, rising levels of polarization, and the growing importance of social media. However, to realize the potentia…
The potentials of heresthetic and rhetoric in an open framing situation: Theory and Evidence From a Survey Experiment
To win a policy debate, political actors may apply two analytically distinct counterframing strategies, rhetoric and heresthetic. Rhetoric is when counterarguments are formulated in the original dimension of the debate, while heresthetic is using arguments in a different dimension compared to the original frame. Although both rhetoric and heresthetic are ubiquitous phenomena in the process of public opinion formation, there are no general rules t…
The Reasons for the Defeat of the Right in Hungary
The opportunities and constraints of successful heresthetical strategies: Attitudes, identities, and the framing of the Russian-Ukrainian war in Hungary
Intellectuals and Democracy in Eastern Europe
The Emergency of Plurality Trends and Movements in Hungary's Society in the Mid-1980s
Article The Emergency of Plurality Trends and Movements in Hungary’s Society in the Mid-1980s was published on November 1, 1988 in the journal Comparative Southeast European Studies (volume 37, issue 11-12)
Hungary
Stable or Fragile Democracy? Political Cleavages and Party System in Hungary
The Transition Process in Hungary Produced Well-established parties and a developed party system. Parties came into existence along political and ideological lines. Parties had an organization, party programme, membership and party discipline similar to those of political parties in the Western European countries. The organization and structure of these parties resembled those of middle-class parties more than socialist or communis/fascist partie…
The Reasons for the Defeat of the Right in Hungary
Intellectuals and Democracy in Eastern Europe
Post-Communist Transition: Emerging Pluralism in Hungary
Intellectuals and Democracy: The Political Thinking of Intellectuals
Government and Politics in Hungary
Political Representation in Leader Democracy
The essay focuses on the neglected problem of democratic politics, i.e. on the role of leadership. Although in democracies public office holders are controlled to a certain extent, leaders still have wide room for political manoeuvre and decide without any ‘instruction’ of the citizens. Re-working Weber's and Schumpeter's theory, the author aims to build the model of leader democracy. He highlights the major traits of it in a comparison with the …
Beyond the Happy Consensus about Democratic Elitism
A growing number of studies assign elites and leaders a larger role than democratic elitism assumes. Democratic elitism is not a coherent theory because it papers over three quite distinct models of political representation and democratic control: Robert Dahl's mandate model; the accountability model associated chiefly with John Plamenatz; and the authorization model set forth by Adam Przeworski and colleagues. This last model, wherein elites and…
Democratic Elitism: New Theoretical and Comparative Perspectives
Joseph Schumpeter's “competitive theory of democracy” – often labeled democratic elitism - has struck many as an apt and insightful description of how representative democracy works, even though convinced democrats detect an elitist thrust they find disturbing. But neither Schumpeter nor subsequent defenders of democratic elitism have paid enough attention to actual behaviors of leaders and elites. Attention has been riveted on how adequately dem…
Contingency and Political Action: The Role of Leadership in Endogenously Created Crises
Among the recent literature about leadership and crisis situations two main strands are to be observed: structuralist ones mainly treat political leaders as reactive agents who have relatively little room for maneuver, while constructivist ones put greater emphasis on the opportunities in interpreting crises. Our claim is that there is a third analytical possibility mainly neglected in recent literature that is even more voluntaristic than the co…
Liberal and Illiberal Populism. The Leadership of Berlusconi and Orbán
The paper compares the political leadership of Silvio Berlusconi and Viktor Orbán from the beginning of their political careers to 2014, Besides giving a descriptive comparison of the Italian and Hungarian political leaders, the paper focuses on two questions: (1) the nature of their populism; (2) the quality and robustness of the changes induced by their policy. The paper concludes that both leaders introduced a new era in politics, but Orbán ha…
Variations for Inspirational Leadership: The Incumbency of Berlusconi and Orbán
The article applies Nye’s (2008, 2014) conceptual proposal for the empirical comparison of the political leadership of Silvio Berlusconi and Viktor Orbán. Nye modified Burns’ (1978) concept of transactional and transformational leaders and differentiated between inspirational and transactional leadership styles. Supplementing Nye’s conceptual–theoretical framework, the article differentiates between leadership style, policy objectives and policy …
Broadening the limits of reconstructive leadership: Constructivist elements of Viktor Orbán’s regime-building politics
Hungary’s political backsliding, which has transformed it from a former frontrunner of liberal democracy in the post-communist region to an illiberal and/or authoritarian state, has puzzled political scientists. As a contribution to understanding the problem of Viktor Orbán’s leadership and the regime change, we apply Stephen Skowronek’s concept of ‘reconstructive leadership’. The politics of reconstruction, with an emphasis on the introduction o…
The Theory and Practice of Plebiscitary Leadership: Weber and the Orbán regime
Most political science interpretations of the post-2010 Orbán regime have been written either within the framework of populism or in the democratization paradigm. We have learned much from these papers about Hungary’s drift in an authoritarian direction, but they also have drawbacks. This article aims to fill the gap between these two approaches and offers a theoretical framework to analyze the impact of populism and other trends of contemporary …
The Orbán Regime: Plebiscitary Leader Democracy in the Making
This book gives the first comprehensive and theoretically substantiated political science account of the Orbán regime in English. It argues that Viktor Orbán’s regime-building and reconstructive leadership is more than just an example of hybridisation, a successful populist appeal or a backlash against the earlier neoliberal hegemony in Central Europe. It unfolds the major traits of the Orbán regime and argues that it provides a paradigmatic case…
Orbán Regime: Plebiscitary Leader Democracy in the Making
The informal side of reconstructing the polity
Orban Regime
The potentials of heresthetic and rhetoric in an open framing situation: Theory and Evidence From a Survey Experiment
To win a policy debate, political actors may apply two analytically distinct counterframing strategies, rhetoric and heresthetic. Rhetoric is when counterarguments are formulated in the original dimension of the debate, while heresthetic is using arguments in a different dimension compared to the original frame. Although both rhetoric and heresthetic are ubiquitous phenomena in the process of public opinion formation, there are no general rules t…
From the theater to the hippodrome: A critique of Jeffrey Green’s theory of plebiscitary democracy and an alternative
The article argues that the theory of plebiscitary leader democracy (PLD), originally developed by Max Weber, is in its somewhat rejuvenated version a helpful framework in interpreting longer-term and more recent empirical trends in contemporary democracies, such as the growing personalization of politics, the emergence of populist leaders, rising levels of polarization, and the growing importance of social media. However, to realize the potentia…
The touch of the leader: Representation and responsiveness in plebiscitary leader democracy
By conjoining theorizing and analyzing existing empirical research results, the article aims at situating representation and responsiveness within the Weberian notion of plebiscitary leader democracy (PLD). In unison with the ‘sensorial turn’ in political theory, it proceeds by adopting the touch metaphor as an analytical lens to help us capture aspects of responsiveness in contemporary PLD. By distinguishing between two forms of touch (‘groping …
The opportunities and constraints of successful heresthetical strategies: Attitudes, identities, and the framing of the Russian-Ukrainian war in Hungary
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