Licia Cianetti (2018. február 3.). „Rethinking "democratic backsliding" in Central and Eastern Europe – looking beyond Hungary and Poland”. East European Politics34 (3), 243–256. o. DOI:10.1080/21599165.2018.1491401. „Over the past decade, a scholarly consensus has emerged that that democracy in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) is deteriorating, a trend often subsumed under the label 'backsliding'. ... the new dynamics of backsliding are best illustrated by the one-time democratic front-runners Hungary and Poland.”
DEMOCRACY REPORT 2023 Defiance in the Face of Autocratization. (Hozzáférés: 2024) „Hungary’s 2022 parliamentary elections secured another victory for long-time autocratizer Viktor Orbán and his right-wing, Christian-nationalist Fidesz party, and revealed
their manipulation of electoral rules... Starting in 2020, former Prime Minister Janez Janša in Slovenia seemed to be mimicking Hungary’s Victor Orbán by restricting press freedoms and neglecting compliance with the judiciary...”