Leveraging Crises: How the Russian Aggression in Ukraine Benefited the Populist Government in Hungary’s 2022 Election Campaigns
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
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Alternative codes found
RIV/00216208:11230/25:10485015
Result on the web
<a href="https://cjir.iir.cz/index.php/cjir/article/view/827" target="_blank" >https://cjir.iir.cz/index.php/cjir/article/view/827</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.32422/cjir.827" target="_blank" >10.32422/cjir.827</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Leveraging Crises: How the Russian Aggression in Ukraine Benefited the Populist Government in Hungary’s 2022 Election Campaigns
Original language description
This article contributes to the literature focusing on the relationship between crises and populism. It argues that the timing, the crisis type, and the contextual factor of whether populists are in power, matter for changes in the discursive strategies of populists and their ability to turn crises into opportunity structures. Guided by the constructivist literature on external shocks and a thematic content analysis of 561 online media news reports on the 2022 Hungarian national elections before and after the outbreak of the Russian aggression in Ukraine (RAiU), the article shows that this crisis helped to refresh the people-centrist elements of Fidesz’s populist discourse while slightly downgrading its anti-elitist aspects. The absence of any material impact of the RAiU on Hungarian society at the time of the elections, combined with the dominance of Fidesz’s ‘pro-peace vs. pro-war’ discourse, transformed the RAiU into an opportunity structure for Fidesz during the elections.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50601 - Political science
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Czech Journal of International Relations
ISSN
2788-2985
e-ISSN
2788-2993
Volume of the periodical
60
Issue of the periodical within the volume
2
Country of publishing house
CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC
Number of pages
26
Pages from-to
7-32
UT code for WoS article
001590239300001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-105012938080