TY - BOOK
T1 - Social innovations in authoritarian polities: two contrasting cases in Hungary
AU - Havas, Attila
AU - Keller, Judit
AU - Molnár, György
AU - Virág, Tünde
PY - 2024/12
Y1 - 2024/12
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Social innovation (SI)
KW - Framework conditions for SI
KW - Multi-level analysis of SI
KW - SI strategies in authoritarian polities
KW - Hungary
UR - https://kti.krtk.hu/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/KRTKKTIWP202425.pdf
U2 - 10.13140/RG.2.2.16493.09446
DO - 10.13140/RG.2.2.16493.09446
M3 - Report
T3 - KRTK-KTI Working Papers
BT - Social innovations in authoritarian polities: two contrasting cases in Hungary
CY - Budapest
ER -