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• College and university students’ attitudes towards democracy in Hungary

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  Tamás Kovács

  Dánilel Oross

  Andrea Szabó

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  20

  The existence of education for democracy has positive impact on citizens’ political knowledge
  and the identification with the democratic values. In the process of civic education, the
  universities and high schools play an important role. Many scholars argue that the high schools
  have a civic mission to serve a public good or the university is the civic mission itself. To examine
  democratic citizenship among high school and university students we use a dataset composed of
  three surveys (2011/2012, 2013, 2015) of 4800 Hungarian students. We build on the literature
  about the empirical and theoretical framework of democratic citizenship to answer the question
  if 25 years after the collapse of communism we can witness the emergence of a new generation
  of democrats in Hungary? Have young people successfully come to terms with their countries' authoritarian past and developed a commitment to democracy as a system of rule? Are they
  ready to defend it in the face of challenges? Based on the empirical framework of citizenship we
  derive a number of significant lessons from the Hungarian case, with important implications
  about the ability to teach the norms and responsibilities of democratic citizenship in the world’s
  emerging democracies.

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  109-134

  Teréz Kovács

  Igor Kiss

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  22

  In this second paper, we are attempting to demonstarte the changes in the political/citizenshiprelated and cultural-historical national identity of the Hungarian ethnic minority in Vojvodina.
  With the end of Yugoslavia as a country this ethnic minority became Serbian citizens. The new
  leaders of Serbia had an adverse view on this ethnic minority until 2014 when the Serbian
  political leaderership changed their political identity and favoured the West instead of EasternEurope.The financial aid provided by the Hungarian Government to the Hungarians living in
  Vojvodina, which targeted cultural and economic development in the area, aimed to better the
  life and strenghten the national identity of this ethnic minority. Those who received financial
  aid developed a better outlook on life. The possibility to acquire Hungarian citizenship easily strenghtened the Hungarian national identity of this minority and contributed to population
  decline. While people migrating to Hungary are primarily motivated by access to better
  education, others migrate to Western Europe for work.

• A „kiegészítő” állampolgárság

  139-145

  Tibor Ladancsik

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  11

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• From Sunday lunch to the ballot box: Political socialisation and political homophily in Hungarian society

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  Dömötör Gere

  Ádám Stefkovics

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  124

  Political socialisation is the process of forming an individual’s political identity, in the course of which the individual’s attitude to politics and political worldview is formed. Political socialisation takes place in different spheres, of which the family and parents are of particular importance. Previous research in Hungary has confirmed that the family is an “incubator” of citizenship. However, there is little data available in Hungary that would allow for a more precise understanding of the transmission of political attitudes. This study investigates political homophily within the family (between parent and child) and the effects of parental political characteristics on the individual in Hungary. Our data are drawn from a nationally representative telephone survey of 2000 respondents sampled in 2023. The results show that in nearly two-thirds of Hungarian families, family members held the same political views during the respondent’s childhood, with the highest proportions of homophily indicators, fathers’ and respondents’ voting activity, and mothers’ and respondents’ conservative-liberal attitudes. The effect of parental characteristics was tested using structural equation modelling (SEM). Parents’ political interests and ideological positions had a strong direct effect on the same child characteristics, but the individual’s political participation and party preference were only indirectly influenced by parents. The success of attitudinal transmission was strongly enhanced if the parents were themselves, homophiles, along with the trait in question. Our results point to the important role of the family as a primary agent in political socialisation and suggest new research directions.