Policy Agendas in Autocracy, and Hybrid Regimes

Zsolt Boda is a Research Professor and Director General of the Centre for Social Sciences in Budapest, Hungary, as well as a part-time Professor in Political Science at ELTE University of Budapest, Hungary. His academic work focuses on the problems of governance, public policy, as well as institutional trust, its social roots, and its consequences for policy effectiveness. He is the co-leader (with Miklós Sebők) of the Hungarian Comparative Agendas Project. He is also the principal investigator of DEMOS – Democratic efficacy and the varieties of populism in Europe, a consortial H2020 project.Miklós Sebők is a Research Professor of the Centre of Social Sciences in Budapest, Hungary, and serves as the Director of the Institute for Political Science at the Centre for Social Sciences. He is the co-leader (with Zsolt Boda) of the Hungarian Comparative Agendas Project, and Research Director of the Artificial Intelligence National Lab at CSS. His research interests include political economy and public policy and the application of text mining and machine learning methods in these fields.

• Part I: Introduction.- Chapter 1: Understanding agenda dynamics in non-democracies.- Part II: Theory and research strategy.- Chapter 2: The effect of political regimes on policy agendas: A theoretical framework.- Chapter 3: Hungarian regimes and their institutional characteristics.- Chapter 4: The data and methods of the Hungarian Comparative Agendas Project.- Part III. The dynamics of policy agendas in four regimes of hungarian history.- Chapter 5: The pre-war era of proto-parliamentarism (1867-1918).- Chapter 6: The traditional authoritarianism of the Interwar period (1920-1944).- Chapter 7: Agenda dynamics in Socialist autocracy (1957-1989).- Chapter 8: The policy agendas of Liberal and Illiberal Democracy (1990-2018).- Part IV: Discussion.- Chapter 9: The Effect of Regime Types on Policy Agendas in Hungary.