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• The political representation of Hungary’s ethnic minorities in the context of voter turnouts in the local self-governmental elections and in the parliamentary elections

  25-39

  Orsolya Szabó Palócz

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  45

  The political representation of minorities within a nation-state is a task that has always posed a great challenge to countries with substantial ethnic minorities, since both the hardships of establishing an adequate legislative environment, both the sensitivity of the subject make it exceedingly difficult for the legislator to develop a sufficient system. The issue of the proper representation of those 13 recognised minorities that are considered constituent components ofthe state were part of Hungary’s political history since the regime change, and for a rather long period of time it seemed that the adequate solution for their political representation was the local governmental system of ethnic minorities. Since 2011 however, the electoral system makes it possible for ethnic minorities to be represented within the Hungarian Parliament as well, which raises the question of whether this will shift the attention of the affected minority groups from the local self-governments towards the parliamentary representation. In this paper, after reviewing the changes within the legislative environment and – in close connection with that – the problems surrounding the issue of political representation of ethnic minorities, I will attempt to answer this emerging question through a brief analyses based on the turnout-data regarding the 2014 and the 2019 elections local governmental elections.

• Literature review of the national identity of hungarians in Vojvodina between 1920–1898, I.

  109-135

  Teréz Kovács

  Igor Kiss

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  71

  Our paper follows on the observation made by Ferenc Pataki who stated that national identity is
  a collective identity shaped by both political/citizenship-related and cultural elements. While
  these two elements are usually similar, the national identity of people from ethnic minorities
  differ along these two identities. Our analysis discusess the changes that happened during the
  hundred years since the Treaty of Trianion to these two elements of the national identity of the
  following three generations of Hungarians in Vojvodina: between the two World Wars, those
  who grew up during the communism and those who became adults after 1990. We conclude that
  the first generation retained their cultural-historical national identiy formed before Wold War I
  but they did not develop Hungarian or South Slavic national idenities. To replace the South
  Slavic identity they developed a regional identity to Vojvodina. The second generation, who were
  born and raised after 1945, developed Yugoslavian political/citizenship-related national identy
  through socialisation in a new political system and a regional identity to Vojvodina, which meant
  an alienation from Hungary. As a result of their shattered cultural-historical national identity,
  they started to assimilate, some of them lost their Hungarian cultural-historical identity and
  acquired a Serbian or Yugoslavian national identity instead. The national identity of the third
  generation who grew up after 1990 will be discussed in a second paper.