Backsliding of Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe: the Reasons and Possibilities for Suspension Examples of Hungary and Some Other Countries
Journal: Humanities and Social Sciences Latvia
Year: 2020

This article is about the problem of democratic backsliding in some of postcommunist central and eastern European (CEE) countries, which have shown very positive achievements in democratic development at the beginning of the transformation processes in the 1990s. The purpose of this article is not only to analyse the transformational processes from democracy to autocracy in former democratic countries, but also to explore the main steps of the authoritarian leaders of these countries towards con