The Hungarian Far Right

Péter Krekó, PhD., is a Fulbright visiting professor at the Central Eurasian Studies Department and a faculty member at the Russian and Eastern European Institute at Indiana University, Bloomington. He served as director of the Political Capital Institute, a Budapest-based think-tank, for five years. In Budapest, Dr. Krekó was an associate professor at Eötvös Loránd University of Science in Budapest, teaching courses on social and political psychology. He is the author of several academic articles and analyses on the contemporary far right in Europe and member of the presidency of the Hungarian Political Science Association and of the pool of experts of the EU Radicalisation Awareness Network Centre for Excellence. He is a regular commentator in the leading international media on Russian soft power, populist, and far-right movements in Europe, and Central Eastern European political affairs. He has published articles in Foreign Affairs, Newsweek, and the Financial Times. He holds a PhD and MA in psychology and an MA in political science. He wrote his PhD thesis on the political psychology of conspiracy theories. Attila Juhász, currently the Director of the Political Capital Institute, Budapest, holds an MA in Political Science and is a PhD candidate at the Doctoral School of Sociology and Welfare, an interdisciplinary research programme at Eötvös Lóránd University, Faculty of Social Sciences (Budapest). He is a lecturer at Pannon University, Veszprém, Hungary. He is an expert on radicalism and extremism, researching mostly radical and extremist political tendencies after the fall of communism in Hungary, but also focusing on international migration and migration policies after 1945 (especially in the European Union). In addition, he has worked on the Political Capital Institute's Demand for Right-Wing Extremism Index (DEREX), which measures and compares people's predisposition to far-right politics in 32 countries using data from the European Social Survey.

"Today, more than ever, there is a clear need for objective research on far right populism. In this book, Peìter Krekoì and Attila Juhaìsz draw on solid and unparalleled research to lift the lid on the far right in Hungary, and within the context of a literature that has for too long focused mainly on Western Europe. Make no mistake-these are the world's leading experts on the right in Hungary, which makes this book essential reading for all those who are interested not only in this country but in the far right across the West."-Matthew J. Goodwin, Professor, Politics and International Relations, Rutherford College