Zsolt Enyedi (Professor, Central European University; Senior Researcher, CEU Democracy Institute) published an article titled “Concept and Varieties of Illiberalism” in Politics and Governance. The article is based on research conducted in the framework of AUTHLIB.
ABSTRACT
This article discusses various conceptualizations of illiberalism and adopts a definition that equates the concept with the negation of three liberal democratic principles: limited power, a neutral state, and an open society. The second part of the article explores the implications of this definitional strategy for empirical research, describes the relationship between populism, authoritarianism, and illiberalism, and identifies nine distinct routes to illiberalism: authoritarian, traditionalist, religious, libertarian, nativist-nationalist, populist, paternalist, materialist-technocratic, and left-wing.
