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• Mobilization incongruence in the Hungarian local electioms

  5-24

  Péter Bence Stumpf

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  41

  In local elections, national voting patterns are often not repeated as results show significant incongruence in terms of turnout, party performance and seat shares. Political science explains these various differences with several distinct theoretical frameworks that approach this incongruence from the aspect of voter behavior. The aim of this study is not to provide an alternative for these conventional explanations but to complement them with the detailed analysis of mobilization in an attempt to clear up certain gaps in the models. My main proposition is that parties can mobilize their supporters for the local elections with differing effectiveness producing incongruence in voter turnout and seat shares. In the capital and in the larger cities there is a mobilization gap mainly affecting left-wing voters that causes lower turnout and weaker electoral performance by these parties. This gap can most probably be explained by a combination of social and institutional factors and has a profound effect on election outcomes.

• 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.

• What’s the matter? A text mining analysis of political topics and user engagement on politicians’ Facebook pages during the 2018 Hungarian general election campaign

  94-123.

  Bene Marton

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  37

  The research investigates the way users interact with leading topics of the 2018 Hungarian
  general election campaign on candidates’ Facebook pages. It expects that the prominent
  (immigration, corruption) and campaign-related topics generate more user engagement, while
  policy topics and mobilization content are less interacted. It also tests the theory of issue ownership
  in relation with user engagement. These expectations are tested on a dataset that includes all
  posts (38030 posts) posted by all candidates during the campaign (511 candidates). Topics
  are identified by text mining methods. The study demonstrates that corruption, development
  policy and campaign are highly engaged topics, while immigration was more interacted only on
  opposition politicians’ pages since the followers of pro-government candidates engage less with
  immigration-related content. The most surprising result is that a reversed issue ownership effect
  can be detected since politicians are generally less successful with their own topics.