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Review of Democracy @revdem2020.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

🎙️ In the new episode of our series produced in collaboration with @jodemocracy.bsky.social, @ccottiero.bsky.social, Emilie M. Hafner-Burton, Stephan Haggard, and Christina J. Schneider discuss the US’ disengagement from institutions of global governance. 🇺🇸🇺🇸 🎧 Listen to it: 👉 tinyurl.com/yunvxepe

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Review of Democracy @revdem2020.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

🎙️ In this new episode of our special series produced in collaboration with @jodemocracy.bsky.social, Saeid Golkar argues that militarization doesn't always occur through coups, as the Iranian case shows, where IRGC functions as a “state within the state.” 🇮🇷🇮🇷 🎧 Listen now: 👉 tinyurl.com/mrpemeaj

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Review of Democracy @revdem2020.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

🎙️ In this new episode of our podcast series produced in cooperation with the @jodemocracy.bsky.social, @kimlanelaw.bsky.social discusses the major challenges and dilemmas that the new Hungarian government faces after 16 years of illiberal rule. 🇭🇺🗳️ 🎧 Listen to it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/4zjcnf37

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Review of Democracy @revdem2020.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

💡 How do leading scholars reflect on contemporary democracies and the prospects of a more democratic future? This new volume, our first print publication, offers a selection of conversations that probe this overarching question. 📚📚 Learn more: 👉 tinyurl.com/4m5v66by

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Review of Democracy @revdem2020.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

🎙️ In our new podcast, Mark Leonard (@ecfr.eu) discusses the conclusions he has drawn concerning “the four Cs:” capital, climate, chips, civilizations and talks about what a new, more holistic approach to European security might prioritize. 🎧 Listen to it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/3makzyx3

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Review of Democracy @revdem2020.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

🎙️ In the new episode of our series produced in collaboration with the @jodemocracy.bsky.social, James Loxton discusses prominent cases of former dictators or their children being elected democratically. 🧑‍💻 Listen to it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/c7px848y

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Review of Democracy @revdem2020.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

✍️ In the second part of their analysis, Bálint Madlovics and Bálint Magyar explain why the mafia state ultimately proved unable to escalate coercion further and what democratic opposition movements elsewhere may learn from the Hungarian case. 🇭🇺🗳️ 🧑‍💻 Read it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/3m6ev7nu

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Review of Democracy @revdem2020.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

✍️ In the first part of their analysis, Bálint Madlovics and Bálint Magyar examine how a mass democratic movement emerged within an authoritarian system designed to prevent such a challenge, and why the Orbán regime proved unable to stop it. 🇭🇺🗳️ 🧑‍💻 Read it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/5cf5upzx

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Review of Democracy @revdem2020.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

🎙️ In the latest episode of our podcast series produced in partnership with the @jodemocracy.bsky.social, Susan Stokes discusses the reasons behind the increase in democratic erosion and possible counter measures. 🎧 Listen to it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/wrzww8ju

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Review of Democracy @revdem2020.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

🎙️ In the new episode of our podcast series produced in collaboration with the @jodemocracy.bsky.social, José Ramón Morales-Arilla discusses the challenges of democratic transition in Venezuela. 🇻🇪🇻🇪 🎧 Listen to it: 👉 tinyurl.com/3ut8hpnt

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CEU Democracy Institute @ceudeminst.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

📣 Applications are open to our unique leadership training program 📣 The program is designed for mid-career public leaders in Central and South-Eastern Europe. Details: 👉 tinyurl.com/pvtw3e89

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Review of Democracy @revdem2020.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

🎙️ In the new episode of our series produced in partnership with the @jodemocracy.bsky.social, L. Jason Anastasopoulos and Jie (Jason) Lian discuss the new challenges and opportunities for repression that AI poses. 🎧 Listen to it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/575pt8vs

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Review of Democracy @revdem2020.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

🎙️ In the new episode of our podcast series produced in collaboration with the @jodemocracy.bsky.social, @pculpepper.bsky.social reframes populism as a differentiated and politically consequential phenomenon rather than a uniformly anti-democratic force. 🎧 Listen to it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/2xtehz6b

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Review of Democracy @revdem2020.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

✍️ The resounding defeat of the first proudly illiberal regime within the enlarged West forces us to revise entrenched wisdoms about it, Ferenc Laczó writes in his reflection on the Hungarian elections. 🇭🇺🗳️ 🧑‍💻 Read it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/27mvd9p7

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CEU Democracy Institute @ceudeminst.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Mark your calendar for this event, where our experts will discuss the most important implications of the Hungarian elections! 🇭🇺🗳️ 🗣️ Andras Bozoki 🗣️ Zsuzsanna Szelenyi 🗣️ Gabor Toka 🗣️ Balint Mikola 🗓️ Apr 20, 5pm CET 📍 Budapest / online Details: 👉 cutt.ly/LtFjtWoC Registration: 👉 cutt.ly/RtFjujEJ

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CEU Democracy Institute @ceudeminst.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

✍️🗞️ "Hungary must seize its chance to oust Viktor Orban," Zsuzsanna Szelenyi, Program Director of our Leadership Academy writes in an op-ed in @economist.com. 🇭🇺🗳️ Details: 👉 cutt.ly/LtDKjYvm

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CEU Democracy Institute @ceudeminst.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

✍️ “The vote on April 12 is Hungary’s best chance in 16 years to choose democracy over autocracy. It may not come again,” our researchers Balint Magyar and Balint Madlovics write in their op-ed in @foreignaffairs.com. 🇭🇺🗳️ Read it now: 👉 cutt.ly/etFh64Cc

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Review of Democracy @revdem2020.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

✍️ Hungary is awaiting a decisive election, which may cement autocratization or open a path for democratic recovery. In his article, Balint Mikola summarizes the most important expectations, potential outcome scenarios, and their respective implications. 🇭🇺🗳️ 🧑‍💻 Read it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/3uetsb5f

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Review of Democracy @revdem2020.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

🎙️ In our new podcast produced in partnership with the @jodemocracy.bsky.social, Andrés Mejía Acosta and @javierpsandoval.bsky.social discuss how, why, and when elected leaders seek to undermine the state. 🎧 Listen to it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/ef276rd6

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CEU Democracy Institute @ceudeminst.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Mark your calendar for this discussion, co-organized with Political Capital! 🇭🇺🗳️ 🗣️ @fromtga.bsky.social 🗣️ Krisztina Arato 🗣️ @zsolt.bsky.social 🗣️ Peter Kreko 🗓️ Apr 10, 5pm CET 📍 Budapest, Nador u. 15. Details: 👉 cutt.ly/UtAGDDMu Registration: 👉 cutt.ly/3tAGD4sF

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Review of Democracy @revdem2020.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

🎙️ In our new podcast, @gabilotta.bsky.social explores the risks that emerge when the relationship between politics and bureaucracy breaks down and how these tensions shape democratic governance. 🎧 Listen to it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/382kszrh

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Review of Democracy @revdem2020.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

🎙️ In our new podcast, produced in cooperation with @jodemocracy.bsky.social, Luciano Da Ros and @manoelgehrke.bsky.social examine how courts can confront authoritarian behavior by elected leaders and why judicial action sometimes succeeds. 🧑‍⚖️🧑‍⚖️ 🎧 Listen to it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/48k3vrkm

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Review of Democracy @revdem2020.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

🎙️ In our new podcast produced in collaboration with the @jodemocracy.bsky.social, @chenoweth.bsky.social and @matthewcebul.bsky.social discuss the political profile of Gen-Z protesters and what ignited their recent protests across the globe. ✊🪧 🎧 Listen to it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/ypefjnjx

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Review of Democracy @revdem2020.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

✍️ Donald Trump’s second term exposes how the structural logic of populism breaks down under its own expansion. What once relied on a clear moral divide now operates through thinning legitimacy and the staging of permanent confrontation, Ece Özbey argues. 🧑‍💻 Read it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/4nw23536

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CEU Democracy Institute @ceudeminst.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Mark your calendar for the next event in our series, focusing on religious actors. 🗣️ @emiliapalonen.bsky.social 🗣️ @lomascolo.bsky.social 🗣️ @shekhovtsov.substack.com 🗣️ @zsolt.bsky.social 🗓️ Mar 9, 5pm CET 📍 Budapest / YouTube Details: 👉 shorturl.at/b8ZrY Registration: 👉 shorturl.at/REo2i

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CEU Democracy Institute @ceudeminst.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Mark your calendar for the second event in our series! 🇭🇺🇭🇺 🗣️ Peter Kreko 🗣️ Veronika Kovesdi 🗣️ Balint Mikola 🗣️ @boralexander.bsky.social 🗓️ Mar 2, 5pm CET 📍 Budapest / YouTube Details: 👉 cutt.ly/1tnq3bkY Registration: 👉 shorturl.at/2rN2p

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Review of Democracy @revdem2020.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

🎙️ In our new podcast, produced in collaboration with the @jodemocracy.bsky.social, Galo Mayorga and @kaimthaler.bsky.social discuss how state weakness, militarized security policies, and public fear are reshaping Ecuador’s democracy. 🇪🇨🇪🇨 🎧 Listen to it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/y5zyn6jp

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Review of Democracy @revdem2020.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

🎙️ In our new podcast produced in collaboration with @jodemocracy.bsky.social, @raschwartz.bsky.social discusses how logistical failures, elite conflict, and long-term democratic erosion combined to the uncertainty surrounding the elections in Honduras. 🇭🇳🇭🇳🗳️ 🎧 Listen now: 👉 tinyurl.com/yk339tbx

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Review of Democracy @revdem2020.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

🎙️ In this exclusive end-of-year conversation with our Co-Managing Editor Ece Özbey, Nobel Prize-winning political economist @dacemoglumit.bsky.social reflects on what 2025 revealed and failed to resolve about the state of democracy. 🎧 Listen to it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/mfh3zv6u

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Review of Democracy @revdem2020.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

🎙️ In our new podcast, Pedro Abramovay (@open-society.bsky.social) offers a wide-ranging analysis of the rise of illiberal forces in Latin America and the democratic vulnerabilities they exploit. 🎧 Listen to it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/2att7rwb

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Review of Democracy @revdem2020.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

🎙️ In the new episode of our podcast series produced in cooperation with @jodemocracy.bsky.social, @nateschenkkan.bsky.social examines transnational repression: a practice where states pursue individuals and groups beyond their own borders. 🎧 Listen to it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/mvbfhx4t

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Review of Democracy @revdem2020.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

✍️ In the first op-ed of his new series, @danielhegedus.bsky.social outlines the strategic framework for a reorientation of the foreign policy of a future democratic Hungary, mapping the challenges, trade-offs, and opportunities. 🇭🇺🇭🇺 🧑‍💻 Read it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/cbtcew39

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Review of Democracy @revdem2020.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

✍️ Across the world, strongmen follow the same playbook to dismantle democracy. But their favorite tool could also become their greatest weakness if democracy’s defenders learn to flip the script, Filip Milacic writes in his op-ed. 🧑‍💻 Read it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/yn3uczmx

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Review of Democracy @revdem2020.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

🔙👥🧑‍⚖️ At the @ceudeminst.bsky.social’s Rule of Law Clinic, Artūrs Kučs, Judge of the @echr.coe.int, analyzed how courts shape the understanding and protection of the rule of law in Europe. 🧑‍💻 Read a summary by Karolina Godal: 👉 tinyurl.com/4mdxnsfj

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Review of Democracy @revdem2020.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

🎙️ In our new podcast produced in collaboration with @jodemocracy.bsky.social, Maya Tudor argues that today’s decline in trust in democracy stems from misconceptions about its achievements. 🎧 Listen to it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/2s965u3f

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Review of Democracy @revdem2020.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

✍️ Peru’s democracy is eroding not through aspiring autocrats but through exhaustion. Entrenched informality hollows out authority and turns governance into a marketplace of deals rather than a system of rules, @eljorobado.bsky.social argues in his op-ed. 🇵🇪🇵🇪 🧑‍💻 Read it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/3hdcnjjb

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Review of Democracy @revdem2020.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

🎙️ In our new podcast, @ashkingdon.bsky.social and @lubardab.bsky.social discuss how both the far-right and the far-left mobilize ecological ideas, often drawing from the same language of resistance. 🎧 Listen to it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/y6tm5b4a

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Review of Democracy @revdem2020.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

✍️ Southeast Asia shows how democracy’s openness can be weaponized. Flexible illiberalism, the art of using democratic institutions to pursue illiberal ends, reveals how democracy endures not by collapsing, but by changing hands, Aqida Salma argues in her op-ed. 🧑‍💻 Read it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/4xv4vyte

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Review of Democracy @revdem2020.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

🎙️ In the new podcast of our series co-produced with @jodemocracy.bsky.social, Dean Jackson and Samuel Woolley discuss the ways in which AI could strain, or even crack, the foundations of democracies. 🎧 Listen to it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/4t2z3p3c

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CEU Democracy Institute @ceudeminst.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Join us for this film screening, followed by a discussion! 📽️👥 🗣️ Adrian Favell 🗣️ Pavel Bandakov 🗣️ @sarahganty.bsky.social 🗣️ @cobrien.bsky.social 🗓️ Nov 7, 4:30pm CET 📍 Budapest, Nador u. 15 Details: 👉 cutt.ly/6r3eHsOx Registration: 👉 cutt.ly/hr3eIyW0

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CEU Democracy Institute @ceudeminst.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Mark your calendar for this lecture and discussion! 🗣️ Artūrs Kučs, Judge, @echr.coe.int 🗣️ @grabowskamoroz.bsky.social 🗣️ Paolo Pinto de Albuquerque 🗣️ András Sajó 🗣️ Renáta Uitz 🗓️ Nov 7, 1pm CET 📍 Budapest, Nador u. 15 Details: 👉 cutt.ly/nr3eUK84 Registration: 👉 cutt.ly/hr3eIyW0

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CEU Democracy Institute @ceudeminst.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

🔴 LIVE NOW 🔴 Follow the roundtable, co-hosted with our journal, the @revdem2020.bsky.social, featuring László Bruszt, Pedro Abramovay, @cqschneider.bsky.social, Fiona Tregenna, and Zsuzsanna Szelényi! 📹👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=uay3...

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Review of Democracy @revdem2020.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

🎙️ In the latest episode of our special series produced in partnership with @jodemocracy.bsky.social, Jennifer Cyr and @fromagehomme.bsky.social reflect on why projects of re-democratization after periods of authoritarian rule often fail in the long term. 🎧 Listen to it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/pasz7maz

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Review of Democracy @revdem2020.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

✍️ Being considered the architect of the BRICS group, China successfully blends both far-left and far-right elements to design a hybrid ideological identity, aligned with its worldview, Giullia Neagu writes in her op-ed. 🇨🇳🇨🇳 🧑‍💻 Read it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/4y3cta8d

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Review of Democracy @revdem2020.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

🎙️ In the new episode of our special series produced in partnership with @jodemocracy.bsky.social, @semuhi.bsky.social and @lucanway.bsky.social reflect on capitalism’s enduring imperfections while presenting it as a plausible force for democratic change. 🎧 Listen to it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/2mdcv2cw

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CEU Democracy Institute @ceudeminst.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

👥 The Budapest Forum, co-organized by the Municipality of Budapest, Political Capital, and us returns to discuss the most pressing issues facing citizens of democratic and nominally democratic countries. 📅 Sept 17 Details and registration: 👉 budapestforum.org

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Review of Democracy @revdem2020.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

🎙️ In this new episode of our special series produced in partnership with @jodemocracy.bsky.social, @stanleysbill.bsky.social and @benstanley.eu discuss the challenges, dilemmas, and paradoxes of liberalism after illiberalism in Poland. 🇵🇱🇵🇱 🎧 Listen to it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/3kaezn2y

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Review of Democracy @revdem2020.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

🎙️ In Part 2 of our latest episode in the special series produced in partnership with @jodemocracy.bsky.social, @berkesen.bsky.social explains how Turkey’s opposition is pushing back against an increasingly hegemonic regime. 🇹🇷🇹🇷 🎧 Listen to it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/te3m6wkr

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Review of Democracy @revdem2020.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

🎙️ In Part 1 of our latest podcast in the special series produced in partnership with @jodemocracy.bsky.social, @berkesen.bsky.social unpacks how Turkey’s competitive authoritarian regime is veering toward full autocracy. 🇹🇷🇹🇷 🎧 Listen to it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/mw9dpb83

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Review of Democracy @revdem2020.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

🎙️ In this new episode of our podcast series created in partnership with @jodemocracy.bsky.social, @richheydarian.bsky.social discusses the Philippines’ dynastic democracy and political prospects in a truly global framework. 🇵🇭🇵🇭 🎧 Listen to it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/bdhmynrn

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