@article{1437155,
      note = {Includes index.},
      author = {Sebők, Miklós, and Boda, Zsolt,},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1437155},
      title = {Policy agendas in autocracy, and hybrid regimes : the case  of Hungary /},
      publisher = {Palgrave Macmillan,},
      abstract = {Over the past thirty years the comparative study of policy  agendas under the aegis of the Comparative Agendas Project  (CAP) has become one of the fastest growing sub-fields in  policy research. Yet, similarly to policy studies in  general, most of the agenda-setting literature focuses on  well-established democracies. This edited volume offers a  ground-breaking analysis of a hitherto less examined topic  in comparative politics: the dynamics of policy agendas in  Socialist autocracy and in hybrid regimes. We propose that  policymaking in authoritarian and illiberal regimes is  different from the practices of democracies which we  analyse based on a unique historical policy agendas  database built by the Hungarian CAP team at the Centre for  Social Sciences in Budapest. We find that punctuated  equilibrium theory offers a good description of policy  dynamics regardless of policy regimes, yet punctuations are  more pronounced in autocratic and illiberal settings. These  regime types also share a tendency towards centralization,  a less efficient use of public information and a  suppression of democratic participation in the policy  process. This book may be of interest to scholars and  students of policy studies, agenda-setting and the politics  of authoritarianism. Miklos Sebok is a Research Professor  of the Centre of Social Sciences in Budapest, Hungary, and  serves as the Director of the Institute for Political  Science at the Centre for Social Sciences. Zsolt Boda is a  Research Professor and Director General of the Centre for  Social Sciences in Budapest, Hungary, as well as a  part-time Professor in Political Science at ELTE University  of Budapest, Hungary.},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-73223-3},
      recid = {1437155},
      pages = {1 online resource (324 pages)},
      address = {Cham :},
      year = {2021},
}