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Providing an analysis of Central and Eastern European economies, this book explores the economic impacts of populism in the regions of populist rule. This book demonstrates that studying macroeconomic variables such as fiscal balance or current account positions cannot tell the whole story of the economic consequences of populism.
List of contents
Foreword (Jan Kubik) 1. Introduction: Economic policy under populist rule in Central and Eastern Europe (István Benczes)
Part I. 2. Populism and economic policies: The implications of populism as a thin-centred ideology in the economy (István Benczes) 3. Contemporary populism in Central and Eastern Europe )
Part II. 4. The (mis)use of unconstrained (political) power in the economy: Hungary under populist rule (István Benczes) 5. Economic populism in Poland: New economic policies and their beneficiaries (Joanna Orzechowska-Wac¿awska) 6. From belt-tightening to scorched earth? (Karel Svoboda) 7. Populism in the making: The case of Slovakia (István Kollai and Bence Bánki) 9. Opposition in government: The atypical case of Croatian Most/Bridge (Viktória Endr¿di-Kovács) 10. Macroeconomic populism in the Baltics: Real effective exchange rate, current account deficit and the economic consequences of populist rule (Gábor Kutasi and Denis Ivanov) 11. National-neoliberal fiscal populism in Romania (Cornel Ban) 12. Where populism has become the mainstream: The case of Bulgaria (Urangoo Bulgamaa) 13. Taking stock: Populist governments and the economy in CEE (István Benczes)
About the author
István Benczes is Full Professor at the Corvinus University of Budapest, and scientific advisor at the Centre for Regional and Economic Studies, Budapest, Hungary.
Summary
Providing an analysis of Central and Eastern European economies, this book explores the economic impacts of populism in the regions of populist rule. This book demonstrates that studying macroeconomic variables such as fiscal balance or current account positions cannot tell the whole story of the economic consequences of populism.
