Book Review Beáta Bakó, Challenges to EU Values in Hungary – How the European Union Misunderstood the Government of Viktor Orbán, London and New York: Routledge 2023, 242 p, 120,00 £, ISBN 978-1-032-31113-5

Understanding and explaining the causes, effects and functioning of illiberal regimes became a brand-new field of research,¹¹András Sajó/Renáta Uitz/Stephen Holmes (Hg), Routledge Handbook of Illiberalism (2021). extending from lamenting over the death of democracy to offering tools for how to defeat populist regimes. Offering something new in this jungle of scholarly works is not easy, but Beáta Bakó seems to achieve that goal. Her book is unique and unusual for many reasons.