by Lucy Nye | Feb 4, 2022 | University of Chicago
Many political scientists assert that Prime Minister of Hungary Viktor Orbán is an autocrat and point to Hungary as a prime example of democratic erosion. Orbán’s article “Samizdat 16” published on January 28, 2022, confirms these characterizations. In it, Orbán...
by Spencer Toohill | Nov 30, 2021 | University of Georgia
COVID-19 has plagued the world over the past year and a half. The pandemic caused countries to impose border closures and the utilization of mass digital surveillance, moves that may have once been classed as dangerous expansions of state power are now being lauded as...
by Gelen Emil Turano | Jul 1, 2021 | University of the Philippines, Diliman
Academic freedom is a basic concept as well as a guiding principle in higher education. However, democratic governments, such as in Hungary, have taken a number of punitive moves against academics and higher education institutions that aim to curtail academic...
by Emma DeGrandi | Mar 11, 2021 | Northeastern University
Prime Minister of Hungary Viktor Orbán has passed a series of measures effectively curtailing the civil liberties of the country’s LGBTQ+ citizens. A well-established populist, Orbán seeks to reshape the state into one that upholds Christian values with...
by Samantha Gable | Dec 2, 2020 | Brown University
The European Union is failing to maintain democracy in their member states. Not only are they failing to threaten these countries into cooperating, they may also be creating an environment that strengthens these leaders and their anti-democratic ways. ...
