Temporal Coupling and Democratic Backsliding in Central Europe

This repository contains the replication materials for the article: Temporal Coupling and Democratic Backsliding in Central Europe The package includes: coded media datasets codebook and methodological documentation Python analysis scripts Google Colab notebook exported figures and tables replication instructions The project examines temporal coupling between institutional restructuring and legitimating political narratives during democratic erosion processes in Central and Eastern Europe, with primary empirical focus on Hungary during the early Orbán government period. The analysis emphasizes descriptive temporal sequencing and narrative escalation rather than deterministic causal inference.