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The Hungarian prime minister is completing his authoritarian hybrid regime at a rapid speed: the government is about to dismantle the Hungarian Science Academy a lá the Russian method.
According to the annual ranking by the US-based NGO Freedom House, Hungary has be downgraded to a “partly free” country after having suffered the largest fall in the history of the survey.
With the magnitude of its democratic backsliding, Hungary represents a unique model in the European Union and has become part of an ever-expanding club of autocratic countries such as Pakistan, Zimbabwe and Singapore.
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Dr. Edit Zgut-Przybylska is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology (IFIS) in the Polish Academy of Sciences (PAN) and a visiting fellow at CEU Democracy Institute. Her research interest covers informality and populism in the context of democratic backsliding and the constraining role of the European Union. She is also a visiting lecturer at the Foreign Service Institute of the US State Department. Synthetic versions of her work are available on POLITICO EUROPE, Foreign Policy and Visegrad Insight. Edit held a re:constitution fellowship 2022/2023, a Rethink.CEE fellowship at the German Marshall Fund of the United States and a Visegrad Insight Fellowship. She previously worked at Political Capital Research Institute and prior to that, she was a journalist at various media outlets in Hungary.
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