Populists and Coalitional Bonding: The Politics of Growth Model Management in Italy and Hungary
Friday, September 15, 2023
Online Event
9:00 am – 10:30 am EDT/GMT-4
9 AM New York l 3 PM Vienna9:00 am – 10:30 am EDT/GMT-4
The OSUN Forum on Democracy and Development cordially invites the OSUN community to a online public lecture at the CEU Democracy Institute. In this discussion, panelists ask how do illiberal governments in Europe navigate the structural constraints posed by EU governance and bond markets, as well as by the imperatives of the domestic growth model?
By looking at Hungarian and Italian illiberals in office, we show that the constraints posed by the growth model are not airtight and illiberals in office can politically adjust them. Specifically, despite their very different growth models, both Hungary and Italy had populist governments that attempted to be responsive to their electorate by enlarging preexisting growth coalitions. Still, the extent to which they were able to design policies that benefited labor was strongly limited by the ideological cohesiveness of the illiberal cabinet and the structures of the growth model, with the FDI-led exportist growth and cohesive government (Hungary) limiting pro-labor measures more than consumption-led growth with divided government (Italy).
Speakers:
Cornel Ban is an associate professor of International Political economy at Copenhagen Business School.
Dana Domsodi is a lecturer in the Department of Sociology, at the University of Babeș-Bolyai (Cluj-Napoca, Romania)
David Karas is a French-Hungarian political economist working on developmental policies in emerging economies.
For more information, call 845-758-6822,
or visit https://events.ceu.edu/2023-09-15/populists-and-coalitional-bonding-politics-growth-model-management-italy-and-hungary.
Time: 9:00 am – 10:30 am EDT/GMT-4
Location: Online Event