TY - RPRT U1 - Arbeitspapier A1 - Labanino, Rafael Pablo A1 - Dobbins, Michael T1 - ‘The goal is not necessarily to sit at the table’—Resisting autocratic legalism in Hungarian academia N2 - The article analyses the strategies of Hungarian higher education interest organisations against the encroachments on academic freedom by Viktor Orbán's governments. We contrast the 2012–2013 and 2017–2019 protest waves and find that innovations in strategy came from new organisations in both periods, whereas established ones were rather passive or opted for the status quo. However, in the second period, new actors consciously declined to pursue wider systemic goals and aimed at building up formal organisations instead of loose, movement-like networks. The focus on keeping a unified front and interest representation on the workplace level did not change the overall outcome. Just like during the first period, the government was able to reach its goals without major concessions. Nevertheless, during the second protest wave the government was unable to divide and pacify its opponents, which stripped it of its legalistic strategy and revealed its authoritarianism. KW - Hochschule KW - academic freedom KW - Victor Orban KW - higher education KW - interest organisations KW - Kulturpolitik KW - Ungarn KW - hungarian academia Y1 - 2020 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1111/hequ.12290 DO - https://doi.org/10.1111/hequ.12290 N1 - Volltext unter angegebener DOI abrufbar. IS - Higher Education Quarterly 2020;00:1–16. PB - Wiley Online Library ER -