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Kim Lane Scheppele on Hungary's Narrow Path Back to Democracy

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You can only get to the point of restoring democratic institutions if you win the last election with such a huge majority that you really have the public with you as you make radical change.

Kim Lane Scheppele

 Kim Lane Scheppele is the Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Sociology and International Affairs in the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs and the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University. Some of her articles include “Autocratic Legalism”, “The Rule of Law and the Frankenstate: Why Government Checklists Do Not Work”, “How Viktor Orbán Wins," and most recently “Can Péter Magyar Restore Hungary's Democracy?” 

 The Democracy Paradox is made in partnership with the Kellogg Institute of the Keough School of Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame. 

Read the full transcript here.

Key Highlights

  • Introduction - 0:20
  • Magyar's Playbook - 3:24
  • A Party Without a Party - 18:26
  • Breaking the Rules to Save Democracy - 30:48
  • Looking to the Future Instead of History - 44:29

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Learn more about Kim Lane Scheppele

Read her Journal of Democracy article “Can Péter Magyar Restore Hungary's Democracy?”

Learn more about the Kellogg Institute.

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