Higher Education and Democratic Resilience
Democracies are particularly vulnerable in the area of higher education, which is often a primary target of populist and authoritarian governments seeking to subordinate and control it. Yet protecting free research, universities, and academic institutions is not only essential for higher education itself; it also strengthens societies’ ability to respond to such threats and attacks through critical thinking and evidence-based knowledge.
Together with the University of Oxford’s Centre for Democratic Resilience and Bucerius Law School, Verfassungsblog aims to monitor, identify, and analyse when higher education comes under pressure, is increasingly eroded, or becomes subject to growing political influence in Germany, Europe, and beyond. In doing so, it seeks to foster resilience by building a shared understanding of threats to the integrity of higher education among academics, policymakers, civil society, and the public.
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