Can outsiders help?

Journal of Democracy

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 147-155

  Jenne, Erin K ^a   Mudde, Cas ^b  

^a CENTRAL EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

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EID: 84864033934     PISSN: 10455736     EISSN: 10863214     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/jod.2012.0057     Document Type: Article

References (16)

1. See, respectively, Milada Anna Vachudova, Europe Undivided: Democracy, Leverage, and Integration after Communism (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005).
2. Judith G. Kelley, Ethnic Politics in Europe: The Power of Norms and Incentives (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006).
3. Frank Schimmelfennig and Ulrich Sedelmeier, eds., The Politics of European Union Enlargement: Theoretical Approaches (New York: Routledge, 2005).
4. Michael Merlingen, Cas Mudde, and Ulrich Sedelmeier, "The Right and the Righteous? European Norms, Domestic Politics and the Sanctions against Austria, " Journal of Common Market Studies 39 (January 2001): 59-77.
5. Jacques Rupnik, "Is East-Central Europe Backsliding? From Democracy Fatigue to Populist Backlash, " Journal of Democracy 18 (October 2007): 17-25.
6. Alina Mungiu-Pippidi, "Is East-Central Europe Backsliding? EU Accession Is No 'End of History,'" Journal of Democracy 18 (October 2007): 8-16.
7. Pablo Gorondi and Vanessa Gera, "Hungary's Hard-Won Democracy Under Threat?" Boston Globe, 15 January 2012.
8. "Viktor Orbán im Gespräch: 'Es gibt ein verborgenes Europa', " Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 4 March 2012.
9. Gábor Schein, "Speaking With Double Tongues: What's Gone Wrong in Hungary?" openDemocracy. net, 21 February 2012.
10. Ian Traynor, "Hungary Prime Minister Hits Out at EU Interference in National Day Speech, " Guardian, 15 March 2012.
11. "EU Is to Freeze Development Funds for Hungary, " Deutsche Welle, 22 February 2012.
12. "Backing Down Gently: The Hungarian Government Seeks Compromises with Its Many Critics, " Economist, 25 February 2012.
13. For an overview of these events contextualized in the longer tradition of political dissidence in Hungary, see András Bozóki, "Transition from Liberal Democracy: Political Crisis in Hungary, " forthcoming in Mediations.
14. One of the few English-language resources on the civil society protests against the Orbán government is the anonymous blog "The Contrarian Hungarian" (thecontrarianhungarian. wordpress. com).
15. "Protest in Hungary: Hungary Steps Out, " Economist, 3 January 2012.
16. This attitude is a legacy of the anticommunist opposition groups as well as influential dissidents such as Václav Havel and György Konrád, who saw civil society defined as essentially antiparty and antistate. See Cas Mudde, "Civil Society, " in Stephen White, Judy Batt, and Paul G. Lewis, eds., Developments in Central and East European Politics 4 (Durham: Duke University Press, 2007), 213-28.