Dr Etienne Hanelt 🇺🇦
@ehanelt.bsky.social
DPhil @ox.ac.uk 🇬🇧 • I study how authoritarian governments demolish democracy & rule of law & how to stop them. Courts & 🇪🇺⚔️🇭🇺🇵🇱 • Researcher, Judicial Resilience Project @verfassungsblog.de 🇩🇪 • re:constitution fellow 24/25 • Sr Researcher, Masaryk Uni 🇨🇿.
Thank you, Laurent!
October 16, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Thank you, Laurent!
We draw on interviews with🧑⚖️ judges and judicial system experts to show how informal mechanisms are used to undermine judicial independence in Hungary 🇭🇺.
I'm grateful to our interviewees who made this research possible.
I'm grateful to our interviewees who made this research possible.
August 29, 2025 at 9:47 AM
We draw on interviews with🧑⚖️ judges and judicial system experts to show how informal mechanisms are used to undermine judicial independence in Hungary 🇭🇺.
I'm grateful to our interviewees who made this research possible.
I'm grateful to our interviewees who made this research possible.
Together with @avincze.bsky.social , I have contributed an article titled 'Managing courts in competitive authoritarian regimes: Co-optation, repression and resistance in Hungary'.
You can find it here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
You can find it here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Managing courts in competitive authoritarian regimes - Zeitschrift für Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft
More than a decade of democratic backsliding has turned Hungary into a competitive authoritarian state. The government has initiated many judicial reforms to exert control over the judiciary, yet need...
link.springer.com
August 29, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Together with @avincze.bsky.social , I have contributed an article titled 'Managing courts in competitive authoritarian regimes: Co-optation, repression and resistance in Hungary'.
You can find it here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
You can find it here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Now, HUN-REN is under attack and Orbán wants to force parts of it to split off and join ELTE. While the authoritarian government of Orbán is not likely to respond to petitions, it is still important that the international science community shows its solidarity: chng.it/qz9ZQbDLKZ
Sign the Petition
We protest the dismantling of the Hungarian Research Network (HUN-REN)
chng.it
June 30, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Now, HUN-REN is under attack and Orbán wants to force parts of it to split off and join ELTE. While the authoritarian government of Orbán is not likely to respond to petitions, it is still important that the international science community shows its solidarity: chng.it/qz9ZQbDLKZ
Stop eavesdropping on me and posting about it! 😉
June 23, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Stop eavesdropping on me and posting about it! 😉
Very poetic, so I asked ChatGPT to make it to a Limerick:
When illiberals plot and confound,
They reshape the rules on the ground.
While law takes its time,
They cement the crime—
And declare the new norm as sound.
When illiberals plot and confound,
They reshape the rules on the ground.
While law takes its time,
They cement the crime—
And declare the new norm as sound.
June 17, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Very poetic, so I asked ChatGPT to make it to a Limerick:
When illiberals plot and confound,
They reshape the rules on the ground.
While law takes its time,
They cement the crime—
And declare the new norm as sound.
When illiberals plot and confound,
They reshape the rules on the ground.
While law takes its time,
They cement the crime—
And declare the new norm as sound.