Újabb tudósok biztosították támogatásukról a kormány legújabb törvénymódosító-javaslata miatt fenyegetett helyzetbe került Közép-Európai Egyetemet (CEU-t). Pénteken 14 vezető közgazdász foglalt állást a törvényjavaslattal szemben, most pedig 119-en, főleg tekintélyes, Közép-Európával foglalkozó társadalomtudósok írtak alá egy levelet, írja a Budapest Beacon.
„Bár a szabályok általános érvényűek, egyes rendelkezések kizárólag egyetlen intézményt érintenek az országban. Ezzel a fortéllyal senkit nem lehet becsapni. (...) Demokráciákban a hatalmat megszerző politikusoknak fel kell készülniük a kritika elviselésére, és szembe kell nézniük azzal a lehetőséggel, hogy végül elveszítik hatalmukat. A magyar kormány látszólagos vágya a bíráló hangok elnémítására, illetve az összes alternatíva kivezetésére a politikai hadszintérről rövidlátó gondolkodásra vall, és szemben áll a fenti értékekkel” – áll a szövegben. Aláírók:
- Farrell Ackerman, Director, Human Development Program, Professor, Department of Linguistics, UC San Diego
- Hilary Appel, Professor of Government, Claremont McKenna College
- Andrew Arato, Dorothy Hart Hirshon Professor of Political and Social Theory, New School for Social Research
- Mark R. Beissinger, Henry W. Putnam Professor of Politics, Princeton University
- Zsuzsa Berend, Department of Sociology, UCLA
- Sheri Berman, Professor of Political Science, Barnard College, Columbia University
- Nancy Bermeo, PIIRS Senior Scholar and Professor of Politics Emerita, Princeton University
- Michael Bernhard, Raymond and Miriam Ehrlich Chair, Department of Political Science, University of Florida
- Jack Bielasiak, Professor, Department of Political Science, Indiana University
- Gavril Bilev, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Merrimack College
- Frank Biess, Professor of History, University of California-San Diego
- Melissa Bokovoy, Chair and Professor of History, University of New Mexico
- Cristina Bradatan, Associate professor of Sociology, Texas Tech University
- David L. Brown, International Professor of Development Sociology, Cornell University
- Chad Bryant, Associate Professor of History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Rogers Brubaker, Professor of Sociology and UCLA Foundation Chair, University of California, Los Angeles
- Yitzhak M. Brudny, Jay and Leonie Darwin Chair in Soviet and Eastern European Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
- Valerie Jane Bunce, Aaron Binenkorb Professor of International Studies and Professor of Government at Cornell University
- Michael Burawoy, Professor of Sociology, University of California Berkeley
- Lenka Bustikova, Assistant Professor of Political Science, School of Politics and Global Studies, Arizona State University
- Holly Case, Associate Professor of History, Brown University
- Nitsan Chorev, Harmon Family Professor of Sociology and International and Public Affairs. Brown University
- Daniel Czitrom, Professor of History, Mount Holyoke College
- Thomas J. Csordas, Professor and Chair, Department of Anthropology, Dr. James Y. Chan Presidential Chair in Global Health, University of California, San Diego
- Jane Leftwich Curry, Professor of Political Science, Santa Clara University
- Istvan Deak, Seth Low Professor Emeritus of History, Columbia University
- Kevin Deegan-Krause, Associate Professor of Political Science, Wayne State University
- Grzegorz Ekiert, Laurence A. Tisch Professor of Government and Director Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
- Gil Eyal, Professor and Chair, Department of Sociology, Columbia University
- Barbara J Falk, Associate Professor, Canadian Forces College
- Melissa Feinberg, Associate Professor of History, Rutgers University
- Carole Fink, Humanities Distinguished Professor of History Emerita, The Ohio State University
- Evgeny Finkel, Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, George Washington University
- Benjamin Frommer, Associate Professor of History, Northwestern University
- Timothy Frye, Chair, Department of Political Science, Marshall Shulman Professor of Post-Soviet Politics, Columbia University
- Venelin I. Ganev, Professor of Political Science, Miami University of Ohio
- Eagle Glassheim, Associate Professor of History, University of British Columbia
- Jeffrey C. Goldfarb, Michael E. Gellert Professor of Sociology, New School for Social Research
- Paul Goode, Senior Lecturer in Russian Politics, University of Bath
- Emily Greble, Associate Professor of History and East European Studies, Vanderbilt University
- Anna Grzymala-Busse, President of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, Michelle and Kevin Douglas Professor of International Studies, Stanford University
- Henry E. Hale, Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, George Washington University
- Paul Hanebrink, Associate Professor of History, Rutgers University
- S. Mohsin Hashim, Professor of Political Science, Director, Dana Honors Program, Muhlenberg College
- Robert M. Hayden, Professor of Anthropology and Law, University of Pittsburgh
- Marc M. Howard, Professor of Government and Law, Georgetown University
- Aida Hozic, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Florida
- Jeffrey C. Isaac, James H. Rudy Professor of Political Science, Indiana University
- John Ishiyama, University Distinguished Professor, University of North Texas
- Wade Jacoby, Mary Lou Fulton Professor of Political Science, Brigham Young University
- Krzysztof Jasiewicz, Ames Professor in Sociology and Anthropology, Washington and Lee University, Co-Editor, East European Politics and Societies
- Alison Frank Johnson, Professor of History, Harvard University
- Juliet Johnson, Professor of Political Science, McGill University
- Ekrem Karakoc, Associate Professor of Political Science, Binghamton University
- Peter J. Katzenstein, Walter S. Carpenter, Jr. Professor of International Studies Cornell University
- Rüçhan Kaya, Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science, Texas A&M University
- R. Daniel Kelemen, Professor of Political Science, Rutgers University
- Michael D. Kennedy, Professor of Sociology and International and Public Affairs, Brown University
- Padraic Kenney, Chair, Department of International Studies, Professor of History and International Studies, Indiana University
- Jeremy King, Professor of History, Mount Holyoke college
- Herbert Kitschelt, George V. Allen Professor of International Relations, Department of Political Science, Duke University
- Rebekah Klein-Pejšová, Associate Professor of History, Purdue University
- Jeffrey Kopstein, Professor of Political Science, University of California, Irvine
- Petia Kostadinova, Assistant Professor of Political Science,University of Illinois, Chicago
- Markus Kreuzer, Professor of Political Science, Villanova University
- Jan Kubik, Director, School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London
- Anita Kurimay, Assistant Professor of History, Bryn Mawr College
- Mark Kramer, Director of Cold War Studies, Harvard University
- Amie Kreppel, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Florida
- Elena Krumova, Lecturer, Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences, Columbia University
- Dragan Kujundzic, Professor, Center for Jewish Studies, University of Florida
- Martha Lampland, Professor of Sociology and Science Studies, University of California, San Diego
- Katherine Lebow, Associate Professor of History, Christ Church, Oxford University
- Anthony Levitas, Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, Brown University
- Isabela Mares, Professor of Political Science, Columbia University
- Kyle L. Marquardt, Postdoctoral research fellow, V-Dem Institute, University of Gothenburg
- Michael McFaul, Director, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies; Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Professor, Department of Political Science, Stanford University
- Kelly McMann, Associate Professor of Political Science, Case Western Reserve University
- John S. Micgiel, Visiting Professor, East European Studies Center, University of Warsaw
- Bryon Moraski, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Florida
- Alexander Motyl, Professor of Political Science, Rutgers University-Newark
- Cas Mudde, Associate Professor, School of Public and International Affairs (SPIA), University of Georgia, Co-editor, European Journal of Political Research
- Harris Mylonas, Associate Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, George Washington University
- Norman Naimark, McDonnell Professor of East European Studies, Stanford University
- Conor O'Dwyer, Associate Professor of Political Science and European Studies, University of Florida
- Mitchell A Orenstein, Professor, Russian and East European Studies and Chair, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
- David Ost, 2010-2105 Joseph DiGangi Professor of Political Science, Hobart and William Smith Colleges
- Cynthia Paces, Professor of History, The College of New Jersey
- Susan C. Pearce, Associate Professor of Sociology, East Carolina University
- Antony Polonsky, Emeritus Professor of Holocaust Studies, Brandeis University.
- Grigore Pop-Eleches, Professor of Politics and International Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University
- Graeme Robertson, Professor, Department of Political Science, University of North Carolina
- Akos Rona-Tas, Professor and Chair of Sociology, University of California, San Diego
- Marsha Rozenblit, Harvey M. Meyerhoff Professor of Jewish History, University of Maryland
- Peter Rutland, Professor of Government, Wesleyan University
- Daniel Schlafly, Professor of History, Director, Russian and East European Area Studies Program, Saint Louis University
- Philippe Schmitter, Professor of Political Science Emeritus, European University Institute and Stanford University
- Edward Schatz, Associate Professor and Department Chair, University of Toronto, Mississauga
- Richard Scher, Professor of Political Science Emeritus, University of Florida
- Marci Shore, Associate Professor of History, Yale University
- David Stark, Arthur Lehman Professor of Sociology, Columbia University
- Anna Seleny, Professor of the Practice of International Politics, The Fletcher School, Tufts University
- Regina Smyth, Associate Professor of Political Science, Indiana University
- Hillel David Soifer, Associate Professor of Political Science, Temple University
- Jelena Subotic, Associate Professor of Political Science, Georgia State University
- Milan Svolik, Associate Professor of Political Science, Yale University
- Anna Szemere, Independent Scholar and Educator
- Vera Tabakova, Associate Professor of Economics, East Carolina University
- Sidney Tarrow, Maxwell Upson Professor of Government Emeritus, Cornell University
- Joshua Tucker, Professor of Politics and Director, Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia, New York University
- Hubert Tworzecki, Associate Professor of Political Science, Emory University
- Daniel Unowsky, Professor of History, University of Memphis
- Milada Anna Vachudova, Jean Monnet Chair in EU Studies and Associate Professor of Political Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Lucan Way, Professor of Political Science, University of Toronto
- Catherine Wanner, Professor of History and Anthropology, Penn State University
- Steven Lloyd Wilson, Research Fellow, Varieties of Democracy Institute, University of Gothenburg
- Nancy M. Wingfield, Presidential Research Professor, Northern Illinois University
- Sharon L. Wolchik, Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, The George Washington University
- Susan L. Woodward, Professor of Political Science, The Graduate Center of the City University of New York
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