Work, family, Fatherland
The political economy of populism in central and Eastern Europe
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7880950 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mitchell A Orenstein (0000-0002-2383-3270, University of Pennsylvania, corresponding author), Bojan Bugarič (0000-0002-2730-8043, School of Law, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 29 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 176-195 |
| Publication date | 2022-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of European Public Policy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1350-1763 • E-ISSN: 1466-4429 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13501763.2020.1832557 |
| OpenAlex | W3093664245 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 65 |
| References cited | 62 |
Since 2008, Hungary and Poland have developed a distinctive populist economic program, which has begun to spread to other Central and East European Countries (CEECs). This article develops a theory of the political economy of populism in CEECs, arguing that these countries' dependence on foreign capital constrained them to follow (neo)liberal economic policies. After the global financial crisis, populist parties began to break from the (neo)liberal consensus, 'thickening' their populist agenda to include an economic program based on a conservative developmental statism. Case studies of Hungary, Poland, and Serbia describe these policies and show that they exhibit a particular form of economic nationalism that emphasizes workforce activation, natalism, and sovereignty. This shift has gone hand-in-hand with attempts to attract investments from Eastern authoritarian states, illustrating the connection between CEEC development strategies and sources of foreign capital
Economic system · Economics · Economy · Fatherland · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Populism · Work (physics · Law
Introduction
Conflicts and Forests
Populist party-producer group alliances and divergent developmentalist politics of minimum wages in Poland and Hungary
How the Radical Right Has Changed Capitalism and Welfare in Europe and the USA
From the Margins to the Mainstream
Populism, Planning, and the Politics of Discontent
Why Does Disinformation Spread in Liberal Democracies? The Relationship between Disinformation, Inequality, and the Media
Governing neo-nationalism, trade unions and industrial relations
Towards rebuilding collective bargaining? Poland in the face of contemporary challenges and changing European social policy
Democratic resilience and re-democratisation
A processual framework for understanding the rise of the populist right
Anti-liberal ideas and institutional change in Central and Eastern Europe
Changing Identities of Religious People
Is it possible to defeat right-wing populist authorities by winning elections? The erosion of democracy and the system of the triple-masters class in Poland
Taking back control over the economy
They attack the family and order”
Illiberal Discourse in Romania
The Theft of Democracy in Post-Communist Europe
Political influence and corporate profits
Bridging the Divide Between Structural and Actor-Oriented Explanations of Populism
Beyond populism and into the state
Fiscal implications of the populist radical right in power
The impact of ‘populism’ on European Public Policy
Governing the Economy Under Populist Rule
Paradoxes of Green Transition and Developmentalism
Varieties of Illiberal Backlash in Central Europe
Taking back control
Domesticating Neoliberalism
Integrating with the Global Economy
Politicizing the minimum wage
European childcare regimes beyond the ‘average family’ model
The Illiberal Turn in Politics and Ideology through the Commodified Social Policy of the ‘Family 500+’ Programme
How do right‐wing populist majoritarian governments redistribute? Evidence from Poland, 2005–2019
Post-neoliberal Populism in Latin America and Eastern Europe
Bringing the state back in
Xenophobia according to Fairbairn
From denial to demonization
Centimanes v. Titans
Economic Nationalism Goes Global
The 2024 European elections in Poland
What’s in a name? Gender equality and the European Conservatives and Reformists’ group in the European Parliament
Re-evaluating the East-West divide in the European Union
The Gramscian politics of Europe’s rule of law crisis
Emigration, welfare, and politics in central and Eastern Europe
Left authoritarianism and positional shifts of populist parties in Central and Eastern Europe
Party state capture and democratic backsliding. The case of state-owned enterprises in Poland
Populist Governance Strategies
De la dépendance économique à la crise des prêts en devises
Back to the familialist future
Women's participation and challenges to the liberal script
Illiberal thought collectives and policy networks in Hungary and Poland
The political economy of national-neoliberalism
Backsliding of the left
Dissecting Putin’s regime ideology
What shapes populists’ economic policy impact? An analysis of financial market reform in Hungary and Poland
Relativising anti-fascism, naturalising reaction
The demography of intolerance
Hollowed or redefined? Changing visions of democracy in the political discourse of Law and Justice
Power Preservation, No Matter the Means
Authoritarian consolidation dynamics in Turkey
The strengths and limits of neoliberal populism
Right-wing populists and noisy politics for big business
It is not (only) about ideas
State, capitalism and infrastructure-led development
The political economy of populists in power, between policy and polity
Post-Communist Mafia State
The Populist Explosion
From Triumph to Crisis
The Populist Radical Right in Central and Eastern Europe
After Europe
Populism and the economics of globalization
Hungary's Illiberal Democracy
Anti-System Politics
New Conservatives in Russia and East Central Europe
Trump, Brexit, and the Rise of Populism
The Political Economy of Populist Rule in Post-Crisis Europe
Conservative Developmental Statism in East Central Europe and Russia
The ideational foundations of the illiberal backlash in Central and Eastern Europe
Financial nationalism and its international enablers
Central and East European Bank Responses to the Financial ‘Crisis’
The privatised sector in the Czech republic
Democracy and welfare in hard times
Symbolic Thickening of Public Culture and the Rise of Right-Wing Populism in Poland
In the Name of the Peasantry, the Proletariat, and the People
Vulnerability and Economic Re-orientation
Workers and the Radical Right in Poland
Governing new authoritarianism
Enlarging the Varieties of Capitalism
Globalization, the welfare state and right-wing populism in Western Europe
Economy, corruption or floating voters? Explaining the breakthroughs of anti-establishment reform parties in eastern Europe
Caught between 1945 and 1989
The European Union's authoritarian equilibrium
What’s Wrong with East-Central Europe
The Failure of Europe's Mainstream Parties
The Global Economics of European Populism
Ethnopopulism and democratic backsliding in Central Europe
Globalization under and after Socialism
When Left Is Right
Counter-revolution
Do mainstream parties adapt to the welfare chauvinism of populist parties
The thin ideology of populism
Populism and Protest in Poland
Populism and the Decline of Social Democracy
Orbán's Laboratory of Illiberalism
Hungary’s U-Turn
Populists in government? Hungary's “system of national cooperation
Communism's Shadow
Politics by Number
The Populist Zeitgeist
Global Populisms and Their Impact
Draining the Swamp
The paradoxes of necessity
| Unique citing works | 65 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 13 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2026 (6) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 63 |