The Retreat of Liberal Democracy Authoritarian Capitalism and the Accumulative State in Hungary

Preface
	References
Acknowledgements
Contents
Abbreviations
List of Figures
List of Tables
1: Introduction
	The Retreat of Liberal Democracy
	Democratic Backsliding in Hungary
	Alternative Explanations of Democratic Backsliding
		Political Rogues
		Anti-liberal Cultural Legacies
		The Failure of Liberalism to Deliver
		Dependent Capitalism
	Debates on the Nature of the New Regime in Hungary
		State Capture
		Developmental State
	The Aims of This Book
	References
2: The Political Economy of Illiberalism
	Globalisation and Democracy in the Twenty-First Century
	Class and Power Structure Analysis
	The Power Structure of the Competition State
	International Integration, Domestic Disintegration
	Workers and Neo-nationalism
	National Bourgeoisie and Economic Nationalism
	The Power Structure of the Accumulative State
	Research Methodology
	References
3: The Competition State
	Revolving Doors in Action
	1969–1990
	1990–1994
	1994–1998
	1998–2002
	2002–2010
	Policy Preferences of Transnational Capitalists
	References
4: International Integration, Domestic Disintegration
	The Dominance of Transnational Capital
	The Marginalisation of National Capital
	The Marginalisation of the Working Class
	Vestigial Welfare State
	Disillusionment with Dependent Capitalism
	The Collapse of the Hungarian Socialist Party
	References
5: Workers and Neo-nationalism
	Fieldwork Context
	Moral Memories of Socialism
	The Experience of Class Dislocation
	The Rise of Neo-nationalist Narratives
	References
6: National Bourgeoisie and Economic Nationalism
	Market Transition and the Business Class
	The Factions of the National Bourgeoisie
	Political Capitalists
	Committed Conservatives
	Emerging Capitalists
	Co-opted Capitalists
	References
7: The Accumulative State
	The Instruments of the Accumulative State
	Conflicts Within the Power Bloc
	Social Disintegration
	Economic Disintegration
	Institutional Authoritarianism and Authoritarian Populism
	References
8: Conclusions
	The Causal Narrative
	The Competition State and Simulated Liberal Democracy
	Dependent Development: International Integration, Domestic Disintegration
	The Countermovement of the Working Class
	The Countermovement of the National Bourgeoisie
	The Accumulative State
	Varieties of Authoritarian State Capitalism
	Insights for the Theory of Illiberalism
	References
Index