by Cortavis Morrow | Apr 23, 2025 | University of Memphis
Executive Power: The Growing Threat to Democracy We have learned about it, and if you are a citizen of the United States of America, you have lived in it all your life. When it comes to democracy, we understand it as a type of government made for the people. The first...
by Cassandra Fitts | Feb 12, 2025 | Boston University
Former Soviet satellite states that were once poster children for democratization following the decline of European communism have been making drastic pivots towards autocracy in recent years. In 1989 following the fall of the USSR, previously Soviet-occupied Hungary,...
by Omer Akdogan | Jan 3, 2024 | Sabanci University
Hungary, a country which transitioned to democracy fairly peacefully after years of Soviet pressure and communist rule, now struggles with authoritarianism and its effects. Viktor Orbán and his Fidesz challenges democratic norms and institutions increasingly more. It...
by S. Sena Turkdogan | Jan 5, 2023 | Sabanci University
Once described as the champion of the third wave of democratization in Europe, Hungary has become a pioneer of democratic backsliding. The concept of democratic backsliding refers to the incremental weakening of democratic institutions, procedures, and norms by the...
by CUNVEREN19@KU.EDU.TR | Jun 11, 2022 | Koç University
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban (Photo by: The Russian Presidential Press and Information Office) Viktor Orban should be taken seriously as sanctions against Russia may affect the trade globally as Russia is one of the most...
