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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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  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.