How the Destroyers of Academic Freedom Masquerade Themselves as Its Victims - The Battle for Hearts and Minds in Hungarian Academia Halmai, Gábor Author aut Ryder, Andrew Author aut Text xx# 2025 Verfassungsblog 2025-01-15 eng
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 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 Halmai, Gábor Academic Freedom Authoritarian Populism Fidesz Ungarn rule of law backsliding Ungarn 342 https://verfassungsblog.de/how-the-destroyers-of-academic-freedom-masquerade-themselves-as-its-victims/ Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH 10.59704/3e987182a4cc404a 250115 10.59704/3e987182a4cc404a Converted from MARCXML to MODS version 3.7 using MARC21slim2MODS3-7.xsl (Revision 1.140 20200717)