Eastern Europe’s “Terrible Twos”

In Romania today, as in Italy twenty years ago, the gradual politicization of anticorruption has come to shape the political scene.

Structure, agency, and process all are critical in explaining the uneven pattern of electoral change in postcommunist Europe and Eurasia.

Viktor Orbán’s Fidesz party has used its two-thirds majority in parliament to change the constitution, erase checks and balances, and make the electoral system even more majoritarian.