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Meeting of the Advisory Board of “The illiberal Turn” Project

Loughborough University Epinal Way, Loughborough

Dr Vaclav Stetka (PI) and Professor Sabina Mihelj (Co-I) have been awarded an ESRC standard research grant for a project titled "The Illiberal Turn? News Consumption, Political Polarisation and Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe" (£817,000). The project will carry out a comparative analysis of the relationship between news consumption and political attitudes in four CEE countries - Poland, Czechia, Hungary and Serbia, at a key point in time when the region is witnessing the rise of populist leaders, resurgence of illiberal nationalism, and a shift towards authoritarian forms of government. Scheduled to run from May 2019 until November 2021,…