Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "不自由的民主" in Chinese language version.
Thus, there is a real danger of ‘pseudo-democracy’, especially because elections can be manipulated and often are. In these cases, elections and other democratic institutions are simply adapted patterns of authoritarianism, not democracy in some imperfect form, having the dual purpose of legitimising the incumbent’s rule and guarding it from any danger of democratic change.
And so in this sense the new state that we are constructing in Hungary is an illiberal state, a non-liberal state. It does not reject the fundamental principles of liberalism such as freedom, and I could list a few more, but it does not make this ideology the central element of state organisation, but instead includes a different, special, national approach.
憲法也能成為威權統治的窗飾(window dressing),憲法內容雖然載明國內外期待的基本人權保障以及對政府體制的規範,但威權政體卻僅相應施行徒具形式而無實質內涵的制度或政策。如第三波民主化後,部分新興民主國家出現民主倒退與威權復辟,非自由民主(illiberal democracy)政體繼之興起,其徒有民主形式而無實質自由權利保障的統治形態,可說見證了窗飾功能的實踐。
And so in this sense the new state that we are constructing in Hungary is an illiberal state, a non-liberal state. It does not reject the fundamental principles of liberalism such as freedom, and I could list a few more, but it does not make this ideology the central element of state organisation, but instead includes a different, special, national approach.