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University Students' Democratic Values and Attitudes toward Democracy in Hungary
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Abstract In December 2012 Hungarian students rallied to protest against cutbacks in scholarships and to the introduction of tuition fees. Two years later, in October 2014, thousands of (mostly young) people gathered at anti-government demonstrations against a proposal to include the taxation of Internet usag... view more
In December 2012 Hungarian students rallied to protest against cutbacks in scholarships and to the introduction of tuition fees. Two years later, in October 2014, thousands of (mostly young) people gathered at anti-government demonstrations against a proposal to include the taxation of Internet usage in the Taxation Law. The article brings results on changes in patterns of democratic citizenship among Hungarian students and demonstrates that despite their issue related ‘rational rebellion’ democratic transition resulted in a low-level of political participation and commitment to democratic values among them. We describe democratic attitudes of Hungarian college and university students by using both qualitative and quantitative data asking if they have developed a commitment to democracy as a system of rule.... view less
Keywords
Hungary; student; protest behavior; protest movement; civil society; political attitude; political participation; democratic behavior; democratization
Classification
Political Process, Elections, Political Sociology, Political Culture
Free Keywords
citizenship; democratic attitudes; political participation;
Document language
English
Publication Year
2018
Page/Pages
p. 15-31
Journal
European Quarterly of Political Attitudes and Mentalities, 7 (2018) 1
Issue topic
Political attitude modeling
ISSN
2285-4916
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed
Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0