Illiberal Policy Frames

ILLFRAMES

ILLFRAMES detects and measures pro-illiberal policy framing across large news and parliamentary corpora — an AI classifier side-car to the AGENDAZ project — alongside a body of research on illiberalism and legislative backsliding in Central-Eastern Europe.

ILLFRAMES classifier
Live illiberal-frames classifier (AGENDAZ)
ILLFRAMES classifier

Selected publications

English-language work on illiberal policy frames and legislative backsliding.

ArticleCrisis-Exploitation or Fear-Mongering? A Research Agenda for the Comparative Study of Policy Crises and Illiberal Policy Frameswith Áron Buzogány et al. · Journal of European Public Policy, 2026Read ↗Book chapterConstructing illiberal counterhegemony: Orbán's transnational project as consequence and cause of Europe's polycrisiswith Jasper P. Simons, Ilona Szabó · in Critical Political Economy of the European Polycrisis (Edward Elgar, 2025)Read ↗ArticleThe (worst) laws of the land: legislative basket cases, legislative backsliding and public administration in Central-Eastern Europewith Rebeka Kiss · Policy Studies, 2025Read ↗ArticleThe Concept of Tailor-made Laws and Legislative Backsliding in Central-Eastern Europewith Rebeka Kiss · Comparative European Politics, 2025Read ↗ArticleThe Concept and Measurement of Legislative Backslidingwith Rebeka Kiss, Ádám Kovács · Parliamentary Affairs, 2023Read ↗