Tuesday, March 8, 2022
10:00 - 11:00 AM (EST)
Hybrid event*

Lindner Family Commons Room 602
Elliott School of International Affairs
1957 E Street NW, Washington DC 20052

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This event is on the record and open to the public.
Based on his latest book with Bálint Magyar, The Anatomy of Post-Communist Regimes (CEU Press, 2020), Bálint Madlovics discusses populism in the context of regime legitimacy, particularly how it aims at replacing the legal-rational legitimacy basis of liberal democracy with substantive-rational legitimacy. This is illustrated by the analysis of the examples of two populist leaders—Viktor Orbán from Hungary and Donald Trump from the US.
 
Adding to the analysis of leaders the analysis of voters as well, Madlovics offers a unique definition of populism: the ideological instrument for the political program of morally unconstrained collective egoism. Describing the social psychology of populism, Madlovics will also discuss the problems and inefficiency of fighting populism from a dogmatic liberal point of view.
Speaker
Bálint Madlovics is a junior research fellow at the CEU Democracy Institute. He holds an MA in political science (2018) from Central European University and has published peer-reviewed articles, book chapters, and a book on post-communist regimes. Madlovics is a visiting professor at Corvinus University of Budapest. Formerly, he was a research fellow at the Financial Research Institute in Budapest (2018–2019), and visiting professor at Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest (2021–2022).
Moderator
Marlene Laruelle, Ph.D., is Director of the Institute for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies; Director of the Central Asia Program; Director of the Illiberalism Studies Program; Co-Director of PONARS Eurasia; and Research Professor of International Affairs at The George Washington University. She works on political, social, and cultural changes in the post-Soviet space. Marlene's research explores the transformations of nationalist and conservative ideologies in Russia, nationhood construction in Central Asia, as well as the development of Russia's Arctic regions.
Illiberalism Studies Program
Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies (IERES)
Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University
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