A demokráciával való elégedettség és a demokrácia értelmezése Magyarországon

Susánszky, Pál; Szabó, Andrea; Oross, Dániel

doi:10.18030/socio.hu.2021.2.30

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“…This is no surprise in such a divided society as Hungary. The winner–loser gap is larger than in other European countries, and has been increasing in the past couple of years (Susánszky et al, 2021).…”

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The Evaluation of the District Legislators’ Performance Affects Citizens’ Satisfaction with Democracy: The Hungarian Example

Papp

2022

Political Studies Review

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Prior research reveals a relationship between various political system outputs and the citizens’ satisfaction with democracy (SWD). The current study contributes to this line of inquiry and demonstrates that the perception of the district legislators’ overall performance positively correlates with the citizens’ democratic satisfaction. The multivariate analysis of Hungarian panel data from 2018 reveals that the effect is most salient in the case of the winners of the election, and less so for the losers. Results are robust to a variety of changes in the model. The findings indicate that the focus on individual politicians and their work has the potential to increase democratic satisfaction even if representative political institutions such as parties, governments and parliaments are not able to win the citizens’ trust.

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The Evaluation of the District Legislators’ Performance Affects Citizens’ Satisfaction with Democracy: The Hungarian Example

Papp

2022

Political Studies Review

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“…Although it is typical for Central Eastern Europe that the support for norms is less translated into action by citizens (Bolzendahl-Coffé 2013), in Hungary the support for duty-based citizenship is already more present at the level of norms than that for engaged citizenship (Coffé-van der Lippe 2010). Susánszky et al (2021) examined citizens' satisfaction with democracy in the context of the intense political debates around the Orbán regime. Using ESS data, the authors showed that Hungarians on average tend to be dissatisfied with the state of democracy, but their satisfaction has been increasing since 2010.…”

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Conceptualizing Citizenship. Eastern European Inputs to the Contemporary Debates. Insights from Hungary

Holle

Ványi

2022

Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, European and Regional Studies

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Active citizenship, critical citizenship, digital citizenship, global citizenship: just a few from the concepts that have shaped the debate about citizenship in the past decades. While these concepts have dominated both the academic and the public discourse and had implications for citizenship education in mature democracies, they often seem to be far away from the lived realities of many Eastern European new democracies. In these countries, debates about citizenship have been burdened with the legacies of the non-democratic past, and even citizenship education has been marginalized for a long time. This paper introduces the Hungarian case and aims to contribute to the theoretical debates about the concept of the good citizen by reflecting on the peculiarities of a post-socialist new democracy.

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“…Similarly, as we could observe in the case of our corpus analysis, the economic aspect of democracy was always important (e.g., unfair wages, or high inflation were criticized in editorial cartoons), but the display of criticism of the economic aspect has steadily declined over the years. Just like in the case of the poll (Susánszky et al, 2021), lack of freedom (linked to information, or press) appeared in higher number than the prosperous economic aspect of democracy.…”

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“…Even if we focused on the representation of violated democratic values linked to the Parliament in editorial cartoons, however, it can be argued that these representations show similar trends as some sociological measurement. As for satisfaction with democracy in Hungary, sociological polls (Susánszky et al, 2021) pointed out that from 2008 on, people have been more and more satisfied with democracy, but there is an increase in the polarization in people's opinion. It means that pro-government voters are more satisfied; in parallel, anti-government voters are more critical and they do not see a functioning democracy in Hungary.…”

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“…A second research gap targeted to be filled by the dissertation is the analysis of the figurative meaning of the Hungarian Parliament. The importance of the Parliament as a symbolic building in Hungarians' minds is highlighted in semiotic studies (e.g., Kapitány & Kapitány, 2002) and its significance linked to the concept of politics is also emphasized in sociological polls (Susánszky et al, 2021;Szabó & Oross, 2018), but those studies do not focus on the Parliament itself, instead they discuss it in relation to other concepts. So we can say that although the Parliament is an important concept (which has been confirmed), its figurative meaning has not been studied yet.…”

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„Wild Democracy” – The figurative conceptualization of the Parliament in Hungarian editorial cartoons (1989 – 2019)

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The expression of the Parliament is often associated with abstract concepts such as politics, democracy, or nationhood (Kapitány & Kapitány, 2002; Szabó & Oross, 2018) when instead of the literal meaning of the ‘building’, we refer to its figurative meanings. It has already been confirmed that political cartoons are rich in figurative devices (e.g., conceptual metaphor) (i.a. El Refaie, 2009) and they serve as a suitable corpus for the investigation of the figurative meaning of the Parliament. In the case of a conceptual metaphor, for instance, the Parliament (considered as a target domain) is understood via the source domain conceptually different from the target (e.g., COLOSSEUM). In that way, certain characteristic features of the source domain are mapped onto the target domain, and we are able to interpret politics, specifically the Parliament itself as the site of real, dangerous, life-or-death physical battles. All these figurative meanings can influence how we think about politics, its processes, and actors, how we argue in the case of a political problem and how we would try to solve it. The current research aims to examine how the Hungarian Parliament is visually represented in editorial cartoons and how these visual representations – through figurative conceptual devices such as conceptual metaphors and conceptual metonymies – construct the concept of the parliament. Furthermore, the thesis discusses how these cognitive devices cooperate with ironies and cultural references (such as idioms, allusions, and national symbols) which are determinant in evaluation procedures and the creation of emotional bonds between the viewer and the cartoon. In doing so, the dissertation studies the caricaturistic representations of the Parliament in three various periods (Körösényi, 2015); thus, the investigation is longitudinal (describing thirty years since 1989) and comparative. What are the novelties of the research? First, it examines Hungarian editorial cartoons in a cognitive linguistic framework, unlike this, so far Hungarian political cartoons have been discussed by historians (e.g., Tamás, 2014). Second, although the Parliament is an important concept (Kapitány & Kapitány, 2002), its figurative meaning has not been studied so widely yet. Third, it is a multimodal investigation of conceptual processes that fits into the trend of cognitive linguistic research that focuses on the cooperation of different processes. Fourth, this research examines a large data set in context where the contextual factors are limited to three types, namely idioms, allusions, and national symbols (context types are usually not defined in such concrete ways, e.g., Charteris-Black, 2011). Fifth, the dissertation applies Extended Conceptual Metaphor Theory (ECMT) (Kövecses, 2020) in practice in a larger corpus. Sixth, it is a diachronic investigation which is rare in the field of cartoon research (e.g., Frantzich, 2013) also in cognitive research, especially in multimodal research. The main results show that 1) the representation of the Parliament is strongly linked to such conceptual procedures as conceptual metonymy and conceptual metaphor. These cognitive devices are likely to cooperate with ironies and cultural references. 2) a limited number of cognitive devices (e.g., the conceptual metonymy THE PARLIAMENT STANDS FOR THE GOVERNMENT, or the conceptual metaphor THE PARLIAMENT IS A PLACE FOR PHYSICAL CONFLICT) are recurring in the corpus during the period between 1989 and 2019. However, regarding the perspectivization, content and function of these cognitive devices, it is said that the compared periods of democracy (Körösényi, 2015) show significant differences based on the diverse preferences and distribution of the cognitive devices with specific cultural references in each era. 3) the increase of more aggressive scenes emerges from the metaphoric domain of PHYSICAL CONFLICT, which goes hand in hand with a change in the use of national symbols referring to the perceived extreme nationalist content, and political slogans which are dominated by the direct elements (literal citations, showing violence overtly). An unexpected result is the detection of a shift in communication acting in the opposite direction, according to which in linguistic changes indirect processes took place (e.g., increasing use of causal type ironies), in visual processes direct changes became predominant, so for instance, violence appeared literally. In sum, the Parliament seems a permanent phenomenon throughout the years, however, this research points to its different meanings and nuances of meaning variants. So even the stability of the meaning of such a strong national symbol can be questioned.

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A demokráciával való elégedettség és a demokrácia értelmezése Magyarországon

Cited by 3 publications

References 14 publications

The Evaluation of the District Legislators’ Performance Affects Citizens’ Satisfaction with Democracy: The Hungarian Example

The Evaluation of the District Legislators’ Performance Affects Citizens’ Satisfaction with Democracy: The Hungarian Example

Conceptualizing Citizenship. Eastern European Inputs to the Contemporary Debates. Insights from Hungary

„Wild Democracy” – The figurative conceptualization of the Parliament in Hungarian editorial cartoons (1989 – 2019)

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