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.
