HVG podcast: Sergei Guriev about Putin, Orbán and modern dictatorships
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2022.09.23. 09:35
The day when Putin ordered partial mobilisation, we sat down to talk with the man who knows just about everything about hybrid regimes. But how does Viktor Orban’s modern dictatorship work? How is it affected by the crisis? And can you avoid being co-opted by such regimes? Find out in the latest edition of our video podcast.
Few people know modern dictatorship as well as the economist Sergei Guriev: for long, the Russian expat has been looking at the rise of spin dictatorships, the process whereby old fear dictators were replaced by pseudo-democrats who are not torturing masses, but still dismantling checks and balances and aiming for tyranny.
Guriev, a researcher at Sciences Po co-authored a book alongside Daniel Treisman about these modern autocracies, which we sat down with him to talk about in the latest edition of our video podcast, Fülke Extra. We met at Budapest Forum – only a couple hours after Vladimir Putin announced partial mobilisation in Russia.
Is this a point when Putin borrows the tools of past dictators? Can Viktor Orbán stay in power until 2030, and his party, Fidesz, until 2060? Can Orban’s regime be reformed from within, and can Western democracy prevail despite the autocratic challenge? These are the questions our colleague Iván László Nagy discussed with Sergei Guriev.