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Hungary's Election Puts Democracy to the Test
The country's rising authoritarianism has been a subtle reflection of trends elsewhere around the world: a Q&A ahead of Sunday's vote.
Plenty at stake.
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Hungarians will head to the polls Sunday to elect their parliament. The big concern about Hungary is that it is one of a number of European democracies in which strong anti-democratic parties have taken control or have been threatening to do so. For some insight, I corresponded via email with political scientist Kristin Makszin, a research fellow at the Institute for Political Science at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences; she also teaches at McDaniel College Budapest and Central European University.
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