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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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  48

  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.

• The social representation of radicalism among young people

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  Istvan Muranyi

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  46

  In the study, using data from an international research (Myplace), relying on the theory of
  social representations, we examined the understanding of radicalism of young people aged 15
  to 26 and living in two towns in Hungary (Ózd and Sopron) which differ significantly regarding
  their political socialization. In accordance with an empirical method based on the theory,
  we analyzed the relationship between young people’s attitudes towards nationalism and the
  democratic principles and the representation of radicalism, following the structural and content
  characterization of the representation of radicalism through the quantification of associational
  responses received in the questionnaire survey conducted in 2012.

• The Changes in political participation among Hungarian youth

  25-41

  Dániel Oross

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  51

  Citizens’ political participation is a key issue of a democratic political system. The starting point of the paper is political participation of young people in democratic institutions is not merely a question of young people’s interest in politics, but also the result of institutional opportunities and mobilization channels that are available for them. The present article aims to interpret the political participation of Hungarian youth is interpreted more broadly than in former studies. On the one hand it shows how a change of attitudes occurred among Hungarian youth concerning the perception of political participation perception. On the other hand it describes the institutional and social context where participation of Hungarian young people is taking place today.