
Hungary’s ‘National Consultations’ Are Not Referendums—Stop Treating Them as Such
Viktor Orbán’s pseudo-democratic questionnaires manufacture consent rather than measure it, yet European media uncritically repeat their results as fact.
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Márk Stégmayer is a PhD student and scientific employee at the Institute of Politics and Social Policy at Johannes Kepler University Linz.

Viktor Orbán’s pseudo-democratic questionnaires manufacture consent rather than measure it, yet European media uncritically repeat their results as fact.