S04E05: Assess­ing the 2022 Hun­gar­i­an Par­lia­ment Elections

This episode pro­vides insight into why Hungary’s Vik­tor Orban was reelect­ed to a con­sec­u­tive fourth term with anoth­er par­lia­men­tary super­ma­jor­i­ty. Dis­cussed is the role of the unlev­el play­ing field in the lead­up to the elec­tions in terms of elec­toral laws and media dom­i­na­tion, as well as how the war in Ukraine ben­e­fit­ted the gov­ern­ment. The episode clos­es with some thoughts on what Orban’s reelec­tion could mean for the Euro­pean Union.

Guests fea­tured in this Episode

Gábor Tóka, Senior Research Fel­low in the Vera and Don­ald Blinken Open Soci­ety Archives in Budapest.  A soci­ol­o­gist by train­ing, he has pub­lished more than 60 arti­cles on elec­toral behav­iour, pub­lic opin­ion, polit­i­cal par­ties and demo­c­ra­t­ic con­sol­i­da­tion in edit­ed vol­umes, polit­i­cal sci­ence and soci­ol­o­gy jour­nals. He is also the author of Post-Com­mu­nist Par­ty Sys­tems: Com­pe­ti­tion, Rep­re­sen­ta­tion, and Inter-Par­ty Coop­er­a­tion (Cam­bridge Uni­ver­si­ty Press, 1999), and has co-edit­ed The Euro­peaniza­tion of Nation­al Poli­ties (Oxford Uni­ver­si­ty Press, 2012).