Hungary's Slide toward Autocracy: Domestic and External Impediments to Locking In Democratic Reforms.

The article focuses on the interaction between domestic and international variables which provides a look at Hungary's transition from domestic success story to democratic defector and offers a useful framework for understanding similar cases of democratic backsliding in the region. It explains the conditions that led to Viktor Orban's ascendancy and democratic backsliding in Hungary and how these conditions can explain patterns of autocratization in other countries in the region. It discusses Serbia, a European Union (EU) candidate country where the same conditions are met and patterns of autocratization hold as well as EU members Poland and Slovenia, where there are strong autocratic learnings but not all variables are present for autocratization to fully materialize.