Lecture traces 'bastions of illiberalism' in Central Europe

On Oct. 10, the Program in Contemporary European Politics hosted “Central Europe’s Transition-Related Democracy Deficit" with  Piroska Nagy Mohacsi, visiting professor in practice at the Firoz Lalji Institute for Africa at the London School of Economics and Political Science. 

In her talk, Mohacsi traced the combination of strong economic growth and fragile politics in Central Europe after the post-1989 transition, in which some countries became “bastions of illiberalism,” to the unanticipated after-effects of two parts of the economic dynamism: extensive investment by foreigners and extensive outward migration to the EU.