Authoritarian governance of academia in Central and Eastern Europe
Chances of a European counter-culture
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7990035 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Tamás Dezső Ziegler (0000-0002-5750-1573, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 159-181 |
| Publication date | 2024-10-03 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Global Constitutionalism (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2045-3817 • E-ISSN: 2045-3825 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s2045381724000078 |
| OpenAlex | W4403083223 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 17 |
This article highlights the challenges of external reactions to authoritarian higher education governance in certain Central and Eastern European countries, especially Hungary and Poland. It interprets the political change in these countries as an authoritarian cultural backlash, which is not just a legal or political problem, but a kind of post-fascist cultural revolution contesting the liberal script. First, the article explains the framework of authoritarian policing in academia based on the more general works of Bob Altemeyer and Zeev Sternhell. Second, it tries to answer the question: What tools could counter these tendencies from the perspective of the European Union? As the article interprets the rise of authoritarianism as a phenomenon rooted in the cultural deficit of the countries concerned, it argues that a programme for a democratic and pluralist cultural counter-revolution should be implemented. However, no nation can be democratized solely by external actors, and the basics of democratic thinking should be developed from the grassroots level. If the crisis in academia is rooted in a value-crisis within the societies concerned, then measures countering this phenomenon should also include promoting Enlightened pluralism at all levels of these societies
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| Citations per year | 3 |
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| Citation span | 2025 - 2026 (2) |
| Highly cited | No |