by Elizabeth Meyers | Nov 27, 2022 | Boston University
Across the bucolic Hungarian countryside, in cities and villages both large and small, massive billboards and signs dot the landscape. Upon closer inspection, these signs are covered in xenophobic tropes and manipulated images, depicting a flood of immigrants with the...
by Stacy Goetting | Jun 9, 2022 | University of California, San Diego
It is apparent in Viktor Orbán’s Hungary that “the people” do not include women. Women have historically not had political empowerment equal to men in Hungary, but under Orbán this is getting worse. According to the World Economic Forum, which has issued a yearly...
by Stacy Goetting | Jun 9, 2022 | University of California, San Diego
The Coronavirus posed a challenge to government’s world wide and response in Estonia was considered to be quick, effective and generally approved by the public. Like many other democracies the government relied on emergency powers that placed more power in the hands...
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 Michael McClure | Feb 5, 2022 | University of Chicago
A few weeks ago, I received the letter pictured above from Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán in my mailbox. “Dear citizen! I write to you today because Hungary has a parliamentary election next spring,” the letter reads. Aiming to mobilize the addressees—Hungarian...
