Social innovations in authoritarian polities: two contrasting cases in Hungary

Attila Havas, Judit Keller, György Molnár, Tünde Virág

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Abstract

Rising inequalities and deprivation have been important drivers for social innovation (SI). SIs’ success requires enabling institutional framework that facilitate collaborative agency for its design and implementation. However, authoritarian governance undermines such framework conditions. Authoritarian regimes feed on social polarisation, centralisation of power, strengthening of hegemonic governance modes, weakening transparency, accountability, and the rules of law. Hungary has become a prime example of democratic backsliding with socio-spatial disparities intensified by perverse public policies and clientelist patterns of relations. By presenting two SI cases from Hungary, this chapter illustrates different ways, in which ‘insider’ and ‘outsider’ SI practitioners can interact with, and operate in, an authoritarian system. It discusses how agents’ different positions influence their SI strategies and practices and offers theoretical implications, as well as recommendations for SI practitioners and policy-makers.
OriginalspracheEnglisch
ErscheinungsortBudapest
Seitenumfang22
DOIs
PublikationsstatusVeröffentlicht - Dez. 2024

Publikationsreihe

NameKRTK-KTI Working Papers
Nr.2024/25

Research Field

  • Societal Futures
  • Ehemaliges Research Field - Innovation Systems and Policy

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