by Yumna K | Apr 4, 2022 | Rollins College
On April 3rd, 2022, Hungary held elections for the National Assembly and for the prime minister. The nation’s incumbent leader, Prime Minister Viktor Orban, declared victory1. Widely seen as a populist leader, Orban has made significant changes to the country’s...
by Maymuna Elmi | Feb 26, 2022 | University of Chicago
Emerging evidence shows that populist support in Europe may be waning. A YouGov survey found that fewer people agree with targeted statements meant to measure populist beliefs [1]. Populism, according to Cinar and other researchers [2], is a belief system which...
by Michael McClure | Feb 26, 2022 | University of Chicago
On January 3, former U.S. president Donald Trump offered, via his Save America political action committee, an endorsement of Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán ahead of the 2022 parliamentary elections in Hungary, in which Orbán will be running for reelection on...
by Lucy Nye | Feb 25, 2022 | University of Chicago
Perhaps it is hard for people to imagine the democratic American leaders they favor could have ulterior motives. Or perhaps Americans are so polarized that they are willing to overlook non-democratic actions so long as they benefit their partisan and ideological...
by Cameron Helman | Feb 18, 2022 | Boston University
Viktor Orbán’s Hungary has come under increasing scrutiny and criticism since he and his party came to power in 2010. Humanitarian watchdogs, scholars, other states, and the EU have criticized his gradual erosion of Hungarian democracy. In 2020, when COVID-19 broke...
