nam 22 uu 4500 10.59704/3e987182a4cc404a DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 250115s2025||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.59704/3e987182a4cc404a doi eng 342 23 Halmai, Gábor Author aut How the Destroyers of Academic Freedom Masquerade Themselves as Its Victims - The Battle for Hearts and Minds in Hungarian Academia Halmai, Gábor Verfassungsblog 2025-01-15 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier Under the authoritarian leadership of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, the government has started a culture war to dismantle the independence of academic institutions, including universities and the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, arguing that they represent a threat to their proudly proclaimed illiberal ideology. Ironically, after dismantling academic freedom in the country, Orbán’s administration started to claim that actually the liberals are the ones who, through "cancel culture", threaten academic freedom. CC BY-SA 4.0 Academic Freedom Authoritarian Populism Fidesz Ungarn rule of law backsliding (DE-588)4078541-5 gnd Ungarn Ryder, Andrew Author aut Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/how-the-destroyers-of-academic-freedom-masquerade-themselves-as-its-victims/ raw object