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      Governance under the Covid-19 pandemic: comparative perspectives on Germany and Hungary : Special section “Democratic Health in the Corona Pandemic. The Corona Pandemic as a Trigger or Amplifier of Democratic Erosion?” Translated title: Regieren unter der Covid-19 Pandemie: Vergleichende Perspektiven auf Deutschland und Ungarn : Sonderausgabe „Demokratische Gesundheit in der Corona Pandemie: Die Corona Pandemie als Auslöser oder Verstärker demokratischer Erosion?“

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          By adopting a comparative approach between different regime types, the paper concentrates on Germany and Hungary as case studies for the comparative analysis of the effects the pandemic has had on national governance in the two countries which most strongly represent the growing cleavage between the EU’s liberal Western core and the illiberal Central-Eastern periphery. Methodologically the analysis follows the Most Different Systems Design and examines to what extent the Covid pandemic has functioned as a potential catalyser for the weakening of democratic governance in formerly solid democratic political systems and/or as an accelerator of democratic backsliding in hybrid regimes. For this purpose, the paper examines the process and the content of legislation passed domestically to contain the effects of the pandemic. The analysis shows that even under the stronger coordination of executive decision-making between the federal and regional government level, the foundations of legislative and judicial scrutiny remained resilient during the pandemic in Germany’s multi-level polity, while in Hungary central government has used the pandemic to substantially expand its executive powers at the expense of legislative and judiciary powers.

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          Das Paper konzentriert sich auf der Basis eines Vergleiches zwischen unterschiedlichen Regimetypen auf Deutschland und Ungarn als Fallstudien für die vergleichende Analyse der Auswirkungen der Pandemie auf das Regieren auf nationaler Ebene in den beiden Ländern, die die wachsende Kluft zwischen dem liberalen Kern der EU und der illiberalen mittelosteuropäischen Peripherie am deutlichsten repräsentieren. In methodischer Hinsicht folgt die Analyse dem Most Different Systems Design und untersucht in welchem Ausmaß die Covid Pandemie als potenzieller Auslöser für die Schwächung demokratischer Kontrolle in bisher gefestigten demokratischen Systemen und/oder als Beschleuniger für das Zurückschreiten im Demokratisierungsprozess in hybriden Regimen gewirkt hat. Zu diesem Zweck untersucht das Papier den Prozess und den Inhalt von Gesetzgebung, die zur Eindämmung der Pandemie auf nationaler Ebene verabschiedet wurde. Die Analyse zeigt, dass die Fundamente legislativer und judikativer Kontrolle sogar im Rahmen der verstärkten Koordinierung exekutiver Entscheidungen zwischen der regionalen und föderalen Regierungsebene im politischen Mehrebenensystem Deutschlands stabil geblieben sind, während in Ungarn die Zentralregierung die Pandemie dafür instrumentalisiert hat, ihre Exekutivmacht auf Kosten legislativer und judikativer Befugnisse deutlich zu erweitern.

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                Contributors
                christian.schweiger@phil.tu-chemnitz.de
                Journal
                Z Vgl Polit Wiss
                Zeitschrift für Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft
                Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden (Wiesbaden )
                1865-2654
                22 December 2022
                22 December 2022
                : 1-23
                Affiliations
                GRID grid.6810.f, ISNI 0000 0001 2294 5505, Chair for Comparative European Governance Systems, Institute for Political Science, Faculty of Philosophy, , Chemnitz University of Technology, ; Thüringer Weg 9, 09126 Chemnitz, Germany
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                http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9854-9848
                Article
                546
                10.1007/s12286-022-00546-4
                9773679
                00afc48f-f6ff-44e9-b990-eeabbf0b6f6e
                © The Author(s) 2022

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                : 30 June 2022
                : 1 November 2022
                : 9 November 2022
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                Funded by: Technische Universität Chemnitz (3137)
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                germany,hungary,comparative politics,governance,deutschland,ungarn,vergleichende politikwissenschaft,regierungslehre

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