The Challenge to Academic Freedom in Hungary

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The Challenge to Academic Freedom in Hungary is written by Andrew Ryder and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 3110749939 (ISBN 10) and 9783110749939 (ISBN 13).

The Challenge to Academic Freedom in Hungary: A Case Study in Culture War, Authoritarianism and Resistance presents a case study as to how an authoritarian regime like the one in Hungary seeks to tame academic freedom. Andrew Ryder probes the reasons for ideological conflict within the academy through concepts like ‘culture war’ and authoritarian populism. He explores how the Orbán administration has introduced a series of reforms leading to limitations being placed on the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Gender Studies no longer being recognized by the State, the relocation of the Central European University because of government pressure and new reforms that ostensibly appear to give universities autonomy but critics assert are in fact changes that will lead to cronyism and pro-government interference in academic freedom.