Fake and Dishonest: Pathologies of Differentiation of the Civil and the Political Sphere in Hungary

Almost 25 years has passed since transition, and Hungarian democracy is in a state. Party politics pervades every aspect of political life, undermining the autonomy of actors, treating them as a potential ‘fan club’ of parties rather than cooperating and consultative. In order to capture what went wrong in Hungarian civil society, we propose a structural that highlights pathologies of the differentiation between the political and the civil spheres. elucidate how the political sphere usurps the autonomy of the civil sphere; thereby not only does it trust in civil actors, but also undercuts their capacity to perform their control function over political sphere. In the analysis, we concentrate on what we identify as the ‘fake-civil/pseudo-civil’ and related discourses, relying on the conceptual and theoretical apparatus developed Arato and Cohen.