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• Politics and media - Structure of the Hungarian media network in autumn 2018

  107-129

  Attila Farkas

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  53

  This article focusing on the changes within the Hungarian media sphere after the Orban–
  Simicska conflict. After the conflict the Hungarian media sphere has changed radically. Those of
  the media outlets which belonged to Lajos Simicska had cease their operation. Business persons
  who have close ties to Fidesz has founded new media outlets. In my article I analyzed three
  political case which happened during the Fall 2018. I assumed that the media sphere in Hungary
  had become more polarized than before. In order to prove it, I created two groups of the media
  outlets. The first one, which have close ties to the governing party, and the second one which has
  not got ties to Fidesz. During my research I used three different methods. First, I
  recorded astatistics about the articles. According to this, the media agenda shows large difference between
  the groups. I did content analysis on the articles, which shows us a huge polarization between
  the groups. The third one, was network analysis. The network analysis did not confirmed the
  polarization hypothesis.

• Polarization and heterogenization of social strata, with the conservation of „the big structure” : Dilemmas on the basis of researches made in the late two decades

  62-88

  Istvan Harcsa

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  47

  Recently the investigations were focused rather the polarization, so the questions connected
  with the inner structure of the different strata got less interesting, The most important aim of
  our study to give an empirically founded picture about the heterogenity of the different strata,
  and paralelly about the conservation of „the big structure” of the society. The study was based on
  the survey of stratification carried out by The Hugarian Statistical Office, in 2016. Observations
  showed, that the revealing of the attributes of the heterogenity can be solved only by developing
  the different modells and schemes. The key question was, that by the modification of Andorka
  scheme could we gather more punctual informations about the formation of the inequality? Our
  results mirrored, that by the help of the revised schemes we could show bigger inequality, than
  with the originel ones.

• Majority Decision Making

  81-100

  Levente Nagy

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  45

  Modern democracies, based on pluralism, recognize and affirm diversity, permit peaceful
  coexistence of different interests, values and convictions, and advocate a form of political
  moderation. For democracy to function and to be successful two of the most challenging
  questions must be raised and answered: Who have the right for collective decision-making?
  What principle should be used for these people to be elected? With the development of modern
  democracies it has become more and more accepted the idea that democracy should rest upon
  the principle of majority rule, coupled with individual and minority rights. Majority rule thus
  refers to the quantitative aspect of democracy, while individual and minority rights express
  the qualitative or constitutional aspect of it. A detailed analysis of democratic decision-making
  processes shows that not all decisions made by legislature – whose members are elected by the
  majority of the people – are effective and good decisions, and points at the fact that most of the
  democratic decisions are not made by the majority but by minority groups, who quite often take
  the initiative and can seriously influence the majority. This paper focuses on these issues.