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2026.01.26.

Event Video – The Rise of Illiberal Challengers in Western Europe

The recording of the panel discussion titled “The Rise of Illiberal Challengers in Western Europe” organized on January 26, 2026 is now available on AUTHLIB’s YouTube channel.Illiberal and far-right forces…
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2026.01.24.

Mapping the Illiberal Challenge: Reflections from AUTHLIB’s Concluding Academic Conference

On 8–9 January 2026, the AUTHLIB consortium convened its concluding academic conference, Mapping the Illiberal Challenge: Patterns, Drivers, and Consequences, at Central European University in Budapest. The event marked the…
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2026.01.24.

Event Video – European Responses to the Shrinking Spaces of Democracy

The recording of the panel discussion titled “European Responses to the Shrinking Spaces of Democracy” organized on January 20, 2026 is now available on AUTHLIB’s YouTube channel.Across the European Union,…
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2026.01.22.

AUTHLIB Historians’ Workshop on Illiberalism, Authoritarianism, Populism

On 9 January 2026, the AUTHLIB consortium organized the workshop "Illiberalism, Authoritarianism, Populism: Historical Roots and Legacies in Comparative Perspective" at Central European University in Budapest. Bringing together leading historians,…
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2026.01.19.

Brussels Roundtable – Mapping the Illiberal Challenge

On January 14, 2026, the AUTHLIB consortium organized a closed-door policy discussion Mapping the Illiberal Challenge: Toward Strengthening Democratic Resilience in Europe in Brussels, hosted by the Transatlantic Foundation. Bringing…
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2026.01.15.

The Rise of Illiberal Challengers in Western Europe: Austria, Italy, and France in Comparative Perspective

The AUTHLIB consortium cordially invites you to the online discussion titled   The Rise of Illiberal Challengers in Western Europe: Austria, Italy, and France in Comparative Perspective on Monday, January 26, 2026…
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2026.01.15.

European Responses to the Shrinking Spaces of Democracy

The AUTHLIB consortium cordially invites you to the online discussion titled   European Responses to the Shrinking Spaces of Democracy on Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 3:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. CET…
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2026.01.04.

AUTHLIB Final Conference – Mapping the Illiberal Challenge: Patterns, Drivers, and Consequences

The AUTHLIB consortium cordially invites you to the project's concluding academic conference titled   Mapping the Illiberal Challenge: Patterns, Drivers, and Consequences on Thursday-Friday, January 8-9, 2026 held in person…
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2025.12.23.

AUTHLIB Newsletter (December 2025)

News from the AUTHLIB Consortium December 2025     Dear Colleagues and Friends,   As 2025 draws to a close, the AUTHLIB (Neo-authoritarianisms in Europe and the Liberal Democratic Response)…
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2025.12.23.

Quarterly Update from the AUTHLIB Team – December 2025

As 2025 draws to a close, the AUTHLIB project closes an eventful quarter as it enters its final stretch early next year. Our quarterly update highlights key developments from across…
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2025.12.22.

AUTHLIB’s Youth Forum in Liberec

On November 29–30, 2025, the first Youth Forum entitled “A Region for the Young” took place in the building of the Regional and Research Library in Liberec. A total of 54…
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2025.12.22.

Journal Article: From ‘Wokeism’ to ‘Le Wokeisme’

AUTHLIB researchers Batuhan Eren and Manuela Caiani (Scuola Normale Superiore) published an article titled “From ‘Wokeism’ to ‘Le Wokeisme’: Diffusion of Anti-Wokeness as a Far-Right Master Frame From the United…
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2025.12.15.

AUTHLIB Policy Papers – Coming Soon!

Across Europe, illiberal forces—both in and out of government, and operating at national as well as European levels—are increasingly challenging the core principles of liberal democracy. These challenges extend across…
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2025.12.15.

AUTHLIB Country Papers – Coming Soon!

Across the globe—and increasingly within Europe—liberal democracy is under threat from a wide array of illiberal forces. These challengers, and consequently the challenges they pose, are not uniform. They differ…
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2025.11.29.

AUTHLIB Final Conference – Mapping the Illiberal Challenge: Patterns, Drivers, and Consequences

The AUTHLIB consortium cordially invites you to the project's concluding academic conference titled   Mapping the Illiberal Challenge: Patterns, Drivers, and Consequences on Thursday-Friday, January 8-9, 2026 held in person…
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2025.11.11.

Journal Article: The 2024 Chapel Hill Expert Survey on political party positioning in Europe

AUTHLIB researcher Jan Rovny (Sciences Po) together with colleagues published an article titled “The 2024 Chapel Hill Expert Survey on political party positioning in Europe: Twenty-five years of party positional data”…
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2025.11.03.

Event Video – Democracy Under Pressure: How Illiberal Politics Reshape Europe

The recording of the panel discussion titled “Democracy Under Pressure: How Illiberal Politics Reshape Europe” organized on October 31, 2025 is now available on AUTHLIB’s YouTube channel.Illiberal parties and movements…
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2025.10.24.

Democracy Under Pressure: How Illiberal Politics Reshape Europe

The AUTHLIB consortium cordially invites you to the online discussion titled   Democracy Under Pressure: How Illiberal Politics Reshape Europe on Friday, October 31, 2025 at 3:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. CET…
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2025.10.23.

AUTHLIB Practitioners of Democracy Forum

On 10–11 October 2025, the Prague AUTHLIB team, hosted the Practitioners of Democracy Forum in Prague. The two-day workshop brought together researchers and practitioners to discuss the findings and insights developed…
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2025.10.10.

Mapping the Landscape of Illiberal Attitudes: The AUTHLIB Interactive Dashboard

Dean Gibson Schafer - Bálint Mikola October 10, 2025   Liberalism faces a variety of ideological challenges. Actors such as Viktor Orbán in Hungary and Giorgia Meloni in Italy have…
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2025.10.09.

AUTHLIB Presentation: Summer School on Democratic Backsliding and Political Conflict in Florence and Cortona

Manuela Caiani and Batuhan Eren (both Scuola Normale Superiore) presented their AUTHLIB project findings in the Summer School on "Democratic backsliding and political conflict" organised by the European Governance and…
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2025.10.06.

Event Video – Bohemia Illiberalis? Perspectives on Czechia’s Future After the Elections

The recording of the panel discussion titled “Bohemia Illiberalis? Perspectives on Czechia’s Future Democratic Landscape and Foreign Policy After the Elections” organized on October 6, 2025 is now available on…
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2025.10.03.

Lauritz Autischer – Beatrice Bottura – Bálint Mikola: Varieties of Illiberalism

Varieties of Illiberalism: An Overview of Policy and Ideological Differences Among Illiberal Parties in Europe Lauritz Autischer - Beatrice Bottura - Bálint Mikola   This paper explores the relationship between…
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2025.09.30.

AUTHLIB Newsletter (September 2025)

News from the AUTHLIB Consortium September 2025     Dear Colleagues and Friends,   As summer gave way to autumn, the third quarter of 2025 was marked by a rich…
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2025.09.29.

Quarterly Update from the AUTHLIB Team – September 2025

As summer gave way to autumn, the third quarter of 2025 was marked by a rich mix of research outputs, methodological innovation, and public engagement across the AUTHLIB consortium. Our…
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2025.09.29.

Bohemia Illiberalis? Perspectives on Czechia’s Future Democratic Landscape and Foreign Policy After the Elections

The AUTHLIB consortium cordially invites you to the online discussion titled   Bohemia Illiberalis? Perspectives on Czechia’s Future Democratic Landscape and Foreign Policy After the Elections on Monday, October 6, 2025 at…
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2025.09.25.

Special Issue: Illiberal Politics in Europe: Ideology, Policies, and Impact

The Politics and Governance journal special issue titled “Illiberal Politics in Europe”, edited by AUTHLIB researchers Zsolt Enyedi (Central European University, Austria / CEU Democracy Institute, Hungary), Petra Guasti (Charles…
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2025.09.23.

Journal Article: Opposition to Government and Back: How Illiberal Parties Shape Immigration Discourse and Party Competition

AUTHLIB researchers Franziska Wagner (Central European University, Austria), Dean Schafer (Mississippi State University, USA / CEU Democracy Institute, Hungary), and Mehmet Yavuz (Central European University / University of Salzburg, Austria)…
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2025.09.19.

Journal Article: How Terror Attacks Shape Political Agendas on Multiculturalism in France

AUTHLIB researchers Elena Cossu and Caterina Froio (both SciencesPo, France) published an article titled “How Terror Attacks Shape Political Agendas on Multiculturalism in France” in the Politics and Governance journal…
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2025.09.16.

Journal Article: Illiberal Social Policy in Europe: When Policy Implementation Meets Welfare Ideas

AUTHLIB researchers Dorottya Szikra (HUN‐REN Center for Social Sciences, Hungary) and Lauritz Autischer (Central European University, Austria) published an article titled “Illiberal Social Policy in Europe: When Policy Implementation Meets…
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2025.09.15.

AUTHLIB researchers from the Charles University organized the first forum of ideological opponents in Liberec

Political scientists from the Faculty of Social Sciences at Charles University, in cooperation with Participation Factory and the Center for Public Opinion Research (CVVM) and under the auspices of the…
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2025.09.11.

Journal Article: Alternatives to Liberal Democracies and Their Consolidation in Central and Eastern Europe

AUTHLIB principal investigator Radosław Markowski (SWPS University, Poland) together with Michał Kotnarowski (Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland) published an article titled “Alternatives to Liberal Democracies and Their Consolidation in Central…
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2025.09.09.

Journal Article: The Transnationalisation of Illiberalism (and Democratic Resistance) in Europe

AUTHLIB researchers Manuela Caiani and Batuhan Eren (Scuola Normale Superiore, Italy) published an article titled "The Transnationalisation of Illiberalism (and Democratic Resistance) in Europe" in the IDS Bulletin.   ABSTRACT…
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2025.09.08.

Journal Article: Normalization through transnationalization?

AUTHLIB researchers Manuela Caiani (Scuola Normale Superiore) published an article titled "Normalization through transnationalization? Far right international coordination and cooperation" in the Journal of Contemporary European Studies.   ABSTRACT This…
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2025.07.21.

AUTHLIB Codebook

The AUTHLIB Codebook describes the variables in the AUTHLIB Integrated Dataset. The dataset provides indicators mapping the variety of ideological challenges to liberal democracy across seven European countries (Austria, Czechia,…
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2025.06.30.

AUTHLIB Newsletter (June 2025)

News from the AUTHLIB Consortium June 2025     Dear Colleagues and Friends,   Over the spring months, our AUTHLIB (Neo-Authoritarianisms in Europe and the Liberal Democratic Response) consortium was…
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2025.06.30.

Quarterly Update from the AUTHLIB Team – June 2025

Over the spring months, our AUTHLIB consortium was busy gathering and analysing new data on illiberalism and moving ahead with the dissemination of our incoming results. Our research teams across…
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2025.06.23.

Event Video – Leftist Illiberalisms: European and Latin American Perspectives

The recording of the panel discussion titled “Leftist Illiberalisms: European and Latin American Perspectives” organized on June19, 2025 is now available on AUTHLIB’s YouTube channel.Illiberalism is often associated with the…
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2025.06.19.

Journal Article: Polarization and Democracy in Central Europe

AUTHLIB researchers Petra Guasti and Aleš Michal (Institute of Sociology, Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic) published an article titled "Polarization and Democracy in Central Europe" in Politics and Governance.…
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2025.06.19.

Journal Article: “Strongmen” Don’t Redistribute: Illiberal Leaders on the Right and Worsening Economic Inequality

AUTHLIB researchers Dean Schafer (CEU Democracy Institute, Hungary / Department of Political Science and Public Administration, Mississippi State University, USA), Seraphine F. Maerz (School of Social and Political Science, University…
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2025.06.18.

AUTHLIB Presentation: “Contested Solidarities” Conference in Vienna

Batuhan Eren (Post-doctoral research fellow, Scuola Normale Superiore) presented the paper titled “Unveiling the Transnationalization of Far Right Practices Through an Event Chronology Based Approach” at “Contested Solidarities: Contentious Politics…
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2025.06.10.

Leftist Illiberalisms: European and Latin American Perspectives

The AUTHLIB consortium cordially invites you to the online discussion titled   Leftist Illiberalisms: European and Latin American Perspectives on Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 4:00 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. CET  …
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2025.06.07.

Summer School: Democratic Backsliding and Political Conflict

The Scuola Normale Superiore (Italy) invites applications from doctoral students for the 2025 Ph.D. School on Democratic Backsliding and Political Conflict. The PhD School will be held at the Palazzone…
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2025.06.07.

AUTHLIB at ECPR Joint Sessions

Marta Vukovic (PhD candidate, University of Vienna) presented her paper titled "Ideological Attitudes and Re-elaborations of WWII History in Europe: Right-wing Authoritarianism, Social Dominance Orientation and Antisemitism" at the ECPR…
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2025.06.07.

AUTHLIB at the “Democracy, Illiberal Alternatives, and Culture Wars” conference

Liberal democratic institutions and values face significant challenges today. Political polarization, declining trust, the erosion of fundamental democratic norms, and the rise of strongman leaders have weakened the post-war consensus.…
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2025.05.29.

Mushrooming Anti-NGO Legislation in EU Member States and Its Implications: The Cases of Hungary and Slovakia- Video Online

The recording of the panel discussion titled “Mushrooming Anti-NGO Legislation in EU Member States and Its Implications: The Cases of Hungary and Slovakia” organized on May 28, 2025 is now…
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2025.05.21.

Mushrooming Anti-NGO Legislation in EU Member States and Its Implications: The Cases of Hungary and Slovakia

The AUTHLIB consortium cordially invites you to the online discussion titled   Mushrooming Anti-NGO Legislation in EU Member States and Its Implications The Cases of Hungary and Slovakia on Wednesday, May 28,…
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2025.04.24.

From Christian Democracy to Christian Autocracy – Video Online

The recording of the public lecture titled “From Christian Democracy to Christian Autocracy” organized on April 1, 2025, at the CEU Democracy Institute is now available on AUTHLIB’s YouTube channel.The…
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2025.04.24.

Normative Boundaries of Safeguarding Democracy – Event Videos Online

How do we protect democracy from those who seek to dismantle it? What happens when liberal tolerance is exploited by its enemies? Can illiberal forces be countered without compromising liberal…
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2025.04.24.

Article: “Down with populism!” – Radosław Markowski on the real threats to liberal democracy (in Polish)

Building on initial results from a survey conducted in 2024 by the AUTHLIB consortium in seven European countries (Austria, Czechia, France, Hungary, Italy, Poland, United Kingdom), Professor Radosław Markowski (SWPS…
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2025.04.24.

Podcast: Daniel Hegedus and Zsuzsanna Vegh on illiberal transatlantic ties

AUTHLIB's Dániel Hegedűs and Zsuzsanna Végh (Transatlantic Foundation / The German Marshall Fund of the United States) joined the "Democracy after 2024" podcast series of the CEU Democracy Institute's Review of…
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2025.04.17.

AUTHLIB Presentation: Unveiling the Transnationalization of Far Right Practices

Batuhan Eren (Post-doctoral research fellow, Scuola Normale Superiore) presented the paper titled “Unveiling the Transnationalization of Far Right Practices Through an Event Chronology Based Approach” at the Annual Conference of…
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2025.04.14.

Journal Article: When Illiberals Govern: Educational and Cultural Policies in Hungary and Poland

AUTHLIB researchers Péter Radó (CEU Democracy Institute, Eötvös Loránd University) and Bálint Mikola (CEU Democracy Institute) published an article titled "When Illiberals Govern: Educational and Cultural Policies in Hungary and…
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2025.04.07.

Journal Article: Cultural policies of populist governments in Central and Eastern Europe

AUTHLIB researchers Bálint Mikola (Central European University), Piotr Zagórski (SWPS University), Dean Schafer (Mississippi State University), Tomas Cirhan (Charles University), Jonas Suchanek (Czech Academy of Sciences), and Dominik Kevicky (Masaryk…
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2025.04.07.

Interview: Radosław Markowski on democratic sentiments in Europe (in Polish)

AUTHLIB principal investigator Radosław Markowski (SWPS University) gave an interview to Gazeta Wyborcza in March 2025 discussing how Europeans feel about democracy today and what their commitments to democratic values…
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2025.04.06.

Journal Article: How Illiberal Parties Shape Immigration Discourse and Party Competition

Franziska Wagner (Central European University, Austria), Dean Schafer (Mississippi State University, USA / CEU Democracy Institute, Hungary), and Mehmet Yavuz (Central European University, Austria / University of Salzburg, Austria) published…
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2025.03.27.

AUTHLIB Newsletter (March 2025)

News from the AUTHLIB Consortium March 2025     Dear Colleagues and Friends,   over the past quarter, the AUTHLIB (Neo-authoritarianisms in Europe and the Liberal Democratic Response) consortium made…
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2025.03.26.

Quarterly Update from the AUTHLIB Team – March 2025

Over the past quarter, the AUTHLIB consortium made further strides in mapping and analyzing illiberalism across Europe. The Sciences Po team developed further a new and innovative text-classification model combining…
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2025.03.26.

Combating Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference in the Digital Age – Event Video Online

The recording of the panel discussion titled “Combating Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference in the Digital Age: The Role of the EU” organized on March 25, 2025, is now available…
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2025.03.24.

Journal Article: Legislative Capture in Hungary – Well-Managed Autocratization

Zsolt Enyedi (Central European University, Austria), and Bálint Mikola (CEU Democracy Institute, Hungary) published an article titled “Legislative Capture in Hungary: Well-Managed Autocratization” in The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social…
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2025.03.20.

From Christian Democracy to Christian Autocracy

The AUTHLIB consortium cordially invites you to the hybrid public lecture titled From Christian Democracy to Christian Autocracy by Jan-Werner Müller (Princeton University) organized on Tuesday, April 1, 2025 17:00…
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2025.03.20.

Defending Liberalism – Normative Boundaries of Safeguarding Democracy

The AUTHLIB consortium cordially invites you to the in-person workshop titled Defending Liberalism – Normative Boundaries of Safeguarding Democracy organized on Monday, March 31 - Tuesday, April 1, 2025 at CEU…
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2025.03.20.

Journal Article: Natural Language Processing and Electoral Manifestos

Elena Cossu (Sciences Po Paris) published an article titled “Application of Natural Language Processing to the electoral manifestos of parties characterised by populist rhetoric in Central and Eastern Europe” in…
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2025.03.19.

Combating Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference in the Digital Age: The Role of the EU

The AUTHLIB consortium cordially invites you to the online discussion titled   Combating Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference in the Digital Age: The Role of the EU on Tuesday, March 25, 2025…
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2025.02.28.

Péter Krekó – Brainwashing of the People, by the People, with the People

Péter Krekó - Brainwashing of the People, by the People, with the People: Mass Persuasion and Systemic Disinformation in Democratic and non-Democratic contexts   This paper explores the evolution of…
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2025.02.13.

AUTHLIB Presentation: The transnationalization of the far right

The far right is generally considered to be a significant phenomenon of the first two decades of the 21st century, and it perhaps also represents the defining academic publishing phenomenon…
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2025.01.23.

SNS Summer School 2025 – Visual Analysis and Contentious Politics

Our AUTHLIB consortium member, the Scuola Normale Superiore (Florence, Italy) invites applications from doctoral students for the 2025 PhD Summer School on 'Visual Analysis and Contentious Politics'. The PhD school…
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2025.01.20.

Podcast: Petra Guasti on the Orbán Regime (in Czech)

AUTHLIB principal investigator Petra Guasti (Charles University) joined the "Kecy & politika" podcast to explain the workings of Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's Hungary to the Czech audience in early January…
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2024.12.31.

Illiberals in Power, Austria in the Spotlight, Cross-border Propaganda Networks: Highlights from 2024

How do illiberals influence policy? What is going on in Austrian politics? What are illiberal propaganda networks and what role does Russia play in them? These are just some of…
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2024.12.18.

AUTHLIB Newsletter (December 2024)

News from the AUTHLIB Consortium December 2024     Dear Colleagues and Friends,   as the year is coming to a close, we would like to take this opportunity to…
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2024.12.18.

Update from the AUTHLIB Team – December 2024

In the past three months, the AUTHLIB (Neo-authoritarianisms in Europe and the Liberal Democratic Response) project has delved deeper into the intricate dynamics of illiberalism. From analyzing citizens’ attitudes and…
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2024.12.18.

Illiberal Legacies and Ideological Morphologies – Event Videos Online

Most work packages of AUTHLIB have been studying the varieties of illiberalism in the contemporary context, but our team of historians conducting research under the Historical embedding work package also explores…
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2024.12.16.

Job opening – Internship at the German Marshall Fund (Berlin)

The Berlin office of The German Marshall Fund of the United States is seeking an energetic and detail-oriented intern, interested in the state of liberal democracy in the European Union…
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2024.12.05.

AUTHLIB Presentation: Disagreement and Freedom of Speech

Marta Vukovic (PhD candidate, University of Vienna) presented her paper titled "(Un)conditional Support? How Disagreement Affects Perceived Relevance of Free Speech for Democracy in Europe" at the 10th Annual Conference of…
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2024.12.02.

Russia’s Illiberal Networks – Event Video Online

The recording of the panel discussion titled “Russia’s Illiberal Networks: From Cross-Border Propaganda to Mutual Legitimation” organized on December 2, 2024, is now available on AUTHLIB’s YouTube channel.The successful transnationalization…
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2024.12.02.

The Transnationalization of the Illiberal Right – Event Video Online

The recording of the panel discussion titled “The Transnationalization of the Illiberal Right: Ideas, Frames, Events and Networks” organized on November 27, 2024, is now available on AUTHLIB’s YouTube channel.The…
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2024.11.23.

Russia’s Illiberal Networks: From Cross-Border Propaganda to Mutual Legitimation

The AUTHLIB consortium cordially invites you to the online discussion titled   Russia’s Illiberal Networks: From Cross-Border Propaganda to Mutual Legitimation on Monday, December 2, 2024 at 3:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.…
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2024.11.18.

Dorka Takácsy – Cross-Border Propaganda Networks

Dorka Takácsy - Cross-Border Propaganda Networks: Examining the Relationship Between the Russian and Hungarian Regimes   This paper examines the rather one-sided, cross-border information exchange between two autocratizing regimes, those…
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2024.11.11.

Journal Article: Russia and Central European Illiberal Actors

Franziska Wagner (Central European University, Austria; CEU Democracy Institute, Hungary), Liliia Sablina (Central European University, Austria), and Bálint Mikola (CEU Democracy Institute, Hungary) published an article titled "Russia and central…
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2024.11.10.

AUTHLIB Presentation: Ethnic Minorities, Political Competition, and Democracy

Jan Rovny (Sciences Po) presented his new book "Ethnic Minorities, Political Competition, and Democracy: Circumstantial Liberals” at the Nuffield College Seminar Series on October 29, and at the University of…
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2024.11.03.

AUTHLIB Presentation: The non-economic varieties of illiberalism

Professor Zsolt Enyedi (CEU) presented preliminary research findings at the 2024 Annual Conference of the Serbian Political Science Association, held in Belgrade on 26-27 October. The paper, co-authored by Professor…
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2024.10.06.

Franziska Wagner on Positive Authoritarianism

AUTHLIB researcher Franziska Wagner (CEU) joined "The Periphery" podcast of the Pulaski Institution to discuss her recent journal article co-authored with Professor Zsolt Enyedi (CEU). The episode explores how the…
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2024.10.03.

Austria Votes: Will the Cordon Sanitaire Hold? – Event Video Online

The recording of the panel discussion titled “Austria Votes: Will the Cordon Sanitaire Hold?” organized on October 1, 2024, is now available on AUTHLIB’s YouTube channel.Austria is approaching a pivotal…
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2024.10.01.

Budapest Forum 2024: Illiberal Challengers of Liberal Democracy – Event Video Online

The recording of the panel discussion titled “Illiberal Challengers of Liberal Democracy” organized on September 18, 2024, at the Budapest Forum is now available on AUTHLIB’s YouTube channel.Illiberal and populist…
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2024.09.28.

Journal Article: Visual Analysis and the Contentious Politics of the Radical Right

Manuela Caiani (Associate Professor, Scuola Normale Superiore) published an article titled "Visual Analysis and the Contentious Politics of the Radical Right" in Sociology Compass. The article benefitted from research conducted…
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2024.09.27.

AUTHLIB Newsletter (September 2024)

News from the AUTHLIB Consortium September 2024     Dear Colleagues and Friends,   The AUTHLIB (Neo-authoritarianisms in Europe and the Liberal Democratic Response) consortium had an active summer, participating…
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2024.09.27.

Quarterly Update from the AUTHLIB Team – September 2024

The AUTHLIB consortium had an active summer, participating in key conferences and progressing with its research on illiberalism in Europe. Members presented findings at the 30th International Conference of Europeanists…
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2024.09.12.

Journal Article: Concept and Varieties of Illiberalism

Zsolt Enyedi (Professor, Central European University; Senior Researcher, CEU Democracy Institute) published an article titled "Concept and Varieties of Illiberalism" in Politics and Governance. The article is based on research…
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2024.09.03.

AUTHLIB Midterm Factsheet

AUTHLIB Midterm Factsheet   The AUTHLIB research project, now at its halfway mark, has made significant strides in understanding the dynamics of illiberalism, authoritarianism, and populism across Europe. The team…
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2024.07.19.

AUTHLIB at the 30th CES International Conference of Europeanists

The AUTHLIB team participated with three panels at the 30th International Conference of Europeanists in Lyon, France, where our researchers had the opportunity to discuss their research on various challenges…
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2024.06.28.

AUTHLIB Newsletter (June 2024)

News from the AUTHLIB Consortium June 2024     Dear Colleagues and Friends,   Over the past quarter, significant progress has been made across various work streams of the Neo-Authoritarianisms…
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2024.06.28.

Quarterly Update from the AUTHLIB Team – June 2024

Over the past quarter, significant progress has been made across various work streams of the AUTHLIB (Neo-Authoritarianisms in Europe and the Liberal Democratic Response) project, focusing on illiberalism, authoritarianism, and…
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2024.05.22.

Journal Article: Positive Authoritarianism in Poland and Hungary

Franziska Wagner (PhD Candidate, Central European University) and Zsolt Enyedi (Professor, Central European University; Senior Researcher, CEU Democracy Institute) published their article titled "They can do it. Positive Authoritarianism in…
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2024.05.16.

AUTHLIB Joins RED-SPINEL for “Making Sense of EU” Podcast

Multiple Horizon research projects explore the threats liberal democracies face in Europe. On the margins of the General Conference of the European Consortium of Political Research (ECPR) in September 2023,…
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2024.05.13.

Zsolt Enyedi on the Crisis of Liberalism

AUTHLIB's principal investigator, Zsolt Enyedi, joined Shalini Randeria, president and rector of the Central European University and host of the "Democracy in Question?" podcast to discuss the crisis of liberalism.JTNDaWZyYW1lJTIwaGVpZ2h0JTNEJTIyMjAwcHglMjIlMjB3aWR0aCUzRCUyMjEwMCUyNSUyMiUyMGZyYW1lYm9yZGVyJTNEJTIybm8lMjIlMjBzY3JvbGxpbmclM0QlMjJubyUyMiUyMHNlYW1sZXNzJTIwc3JjJTNEJTIyaHR0cHMlM0ElMkYlMkZwbGF5ZXIuc2ltcGxlY2FzdC5jb20lMkY2MTczZTQ2ZS03MTAzLTRhZDEtYjI5Ny1kMmQxZjkxYjFkMWQlM0ZkYXJrJTNEZmFsc2UlMjIlM0UlM0MlMkZpZnJhbWUlM0U=The…
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2024.05.10.

Populist Leaders and Foreign Policy: Sovereigntism on the Rise? – Event Video

In recent times, populist leaders and parties have gained increasing prominence on the international scene, from President Donald Trump in the United States to Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and…
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