Our article with Dorottya Fekete analyses how policy-knowledge producers work towards achieving legitimacy for the knowledge they produce in the context of Hungary’s autocratizing and highly politicized policy making arena. Based on interview data with think tanks it identifies three sets of legitimacy-building practices used to navigate the dominance of the political over the professional.
Krizsán, A., & Fekete, D. (2025). Legitimising policy knowledge in autocratising contexts: the case of Hungary. Policy & Politics (published online ahead of print 2025). https://doi.org/10.1332/03055736Y2024D000000061
Our paper with Jezierska and Sörbom discusses how ideational, procedural & structural changes in policy processes impact policy advisory systems in de-democratizing countries. Building on data from Hungary and Poland we argue that some changes in policymaking are especially consequential for policy advice organizations: questioning and politicizing expertise, centralizing policymaking, politicizing public administration, and dismantling accountability mechanisms.
Andrea Krizsán, Katarzyna Jezierska, Adrienne Sörbom (2025) Policy knowledge production in de-democratizing contexts, Policy and Society (early view) https://doi.org/10.1093/polsoc/puae037