Ava Herzog

Academic Freedom Under Pressure: What Attacks on U.S. Universities Reveal About Democratic Erosion

Recent attacks on academics in the United States point to a broader and more concerning trend, which is the erosion of democratic norms through political polarization and institutional...

Funding Backsliding: How Hungary Tests the Limits of EU Democratic Enforcement

Boston University

The European Union recently froze 10 billion euros in payments to Hungary, over concern that the Prime Minister, Viktor Orbán, had failed to carry out promised judicial reforms. In 2022, the...