Civic and Uncivic Values in Hungary

Value Transformation, Politics, and Religion
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-032-78651-3
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 256 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 552 g

Reihe: Routledge Advances in European Politics

This book offers an analysis of values in Hungary.

Following the proposition that civic values are crucial to liberal democracy and conducive to international peace, this book examines the extent to which these values are respected and practised in a number of policy spheres, with chapters devoted to the political system, the media, religion, relations with the European Union, history textbooks, cinema, Roma, and the attitudes of Hungarian women voters. The book also charts how, under Prime Minister Orbán, Hungary has gravitated away from the civic values spelled out in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Charter of the European Union.

This book will prove to be of great use to scholars and students of democracy, East Central Europe, minorities, Hungarian contemporary history and politics, civic culture, gender studies, nationalism, human rights, and more broadly the social sciences.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ramet, Sabrina P.

Kürti, László

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Civic values and the vulnerability of an illiberal political order: The case of Hungary  Part 1: The System  2. Politics in Hungary: Two critical junctures  3. The Hungarian media system: Unequal worlds  Part 2: Values  4. Hungarian civic values in a European context  5. EU rule-of-law-conditionality and uncivic Hungary: Can you buy the rule of law?  6. Illiberalism and popular religion in Hungary: State Christianity  7. Anti-minority prejudice in Hungary: Gypsy business - Roma politics  8. Orbán and Vucic: From disparate beginnings to shared values  9. Reconstructionist religions in Hungary: In the shadow of threats  Part 3: Culture, Gender and History Textbooks  10. Representations of post-Communist illiberalism in Coyote: Civic values in an illiberal state?  11. Polarized society in an illiberal polypore state: Values and attitudes among Hungarian women voters  12. Changing interpretations in history teaching and history textbooks  Part 4: Conclusion  13. The wild wild East (A Conclusion)

Über Autor(innen)

Sabrina P. Ramet is Professor Emerita at the Norwegian University of Science & Technology (NTNU), Norway.

László Kürti is Professor at the Institute of Applied Social Sciences, University of Miskolc, Hungary.