Dr Fanni Toth is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Insititute for Media and Creative Industries (IMCI) at Loughborough University London. She is currently working on the project ‘Populist Backlash, Democratic Backsliding, and the Crisis of the Rule of Law in the European Union (POPBACK)’, focusing on the Hungarian case study. Fanni’s research interests concentrate on democratisation, political attitudes, political communication and populist authoritarianism, with a regional focus on Central and Eastern Europe.