Hungary, once seen as a democratic success story is now widely recognized as one of the EU's most corrupt member states. Regular KB host Liz David-Barrett sits down with József Péter Martin and Áron Hajnal to examine how Viktor Orbán built a system of state capture, and why the EU struggled to respond. They discuss their research evaluating the effectiveness of EU conditionality measures, the challenges of tackling corruption when it's built into the regime itself, and what might happen in Hungary's crucial April 2026 elections.
Find Áron and József’s article here: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10999922.2025.2554409?scroll=top&needAccess=true#d1e186
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Hungary, once seen as a democratic success story is now widely recognized as one of the EU's most corrupt member states. Regular KB host Liz David-Barrett sits down with József Péter Martin and Áron Hajnal to examine how Viktor Orbán built a system of state capture, and why the EU struggled to respond. They discuss their research evaluating the effectiveness of EU conditionality measures, the challenges of tackling corruption when it's built into the regime itself, and what might happen in Hungary's crucial April 2026 elections.
Find Áron and József’s article here: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10999922.2025.2554409?scroll=top&needAccess=true#d1e186
129. Marianne Camerer & Devi Pillay on State Capture in South Africa
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129. Marianne Camerer & Devi Pillay on State Capture in South Africa
For this episode Dr Marianne Camerer, a Senior Lecturer at the University of Cape Town’s Nelson Mandela School of Public Governance, and Devi Pillay, a research fellow with the GI-ACE programme, join regular KB host Liz David-Barrett to discuss the experience of state capture in South Africa, under the presidency of Jacob Zuma.
Check out the following resources to learn more about the issues discussed in this episode:
The Open Secrets website which houses the Civil Society Working Group Against State Capture
https://www.opensecrets.org.za/civil-society-working-group-on-state-capture/
The State Capture Commission website
https://www.statecapture.org.za/
The Public Protector’s 2016 report
https://www.sahistory.org.za/archive/state-capture-report-public-protector-14-october-2016
A short summary written by Devi of the Commission and its findings https://pari.org.za/summary-the-state-capture-commission
And the book "State Capture in South Africa: How and why it happened", edited by Mbongiseni Buthelezi and Peter Vale
https://pari.org.za/new-book-state-capture-in-south-africa-how-and-why-it-happened/
KickBack - The Global Anticorruption Podcast
Hungary, once seen as a democratic success story is now widely recognized as one of the EU's most corrupt member states. Regular KB host Liz David-Barrett sits down with József Péter Martin and Áron Hajnal to examine how Viktor Orbán built a system of state capture, and why the EU struggled to respond. They discuss their research evaluating the effectiveness of EU conditionality measures, the challenges of tackling corruption when it's built into the regime itself, and what might happen in Hungary's crucial April 2026 elections.
Find Áron and József’s article here: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10999922.2025.2554409?scroll=top&needAccess=true#d1e186
