Parlamento e parlamentarismo nella democrazia illiberale: l’esperienza ungherese

The Parliament and the Parliamentary System in the Illiberal Democracy: the Hungarian Experience

Abstract

During the last decade, several studies have been conducted in order to define the elements and processes characterizing the diffusion of illiberal democracies. Most of these studies show the transformations that involve the system of constitutional guarantees. The purpose of this paper is to focus on the other side of the coin, the one related to the representative institutions, and in particular to the parliamentary assemblies, in order to analyse if, and eventually how, the spread of the illiberal democracy model, which has already compromised the guarantees typical of the constitutional form of State, can also affect the structures and functions of the representative institutions.

Keywords: Hungary; Parliament; Parliamentarism; Illiberal democracy; Constitutional retrogression.