Where did all the environmentalism go? ‘Politics can be different’ (LMP) in the 2018 Hungarian parliamentary elections

Kovarek, Daniel; Littvay, Levente

doi:10.1080/09644016.2019.1567874

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“…Inspired by Campbell et al (2019), unobjectionable attributes were added to create a more realistic context, such as information about what leisure activities the candidate prefers and his intra-party political experience. Finally, socio-demographic attributes were chosen in a way to depict an “average” parliamentary candidate in Hungary: we picked the average age of MPs (Ilonszki and Kurtán, 2011), described him as male, as the share of female parliamentarians is around 10% (Kovarek and Littvay, 2019: 576), being married and a father (Kristóf, 2013: 98).…”

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Distributive politics as behavioral localism: Evidence from a vignette experiment in Hungary

Kovarek

2022

Research & Politics

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Recent literature on friends-and-neighbors voting focused on explaining citizens’ motives behind supporting local candidates; the cue-based account suggests that local ties signal accountability, constituency service orientation, and policy representation. Localism was also posited to serve as a cue for distributive politics, but assumptions of voters making inferences about receiving tangible benefits once a politician from their own stock is elected were not corroborated empirically. Drawing on a survey experiment ( N = 2000) fielded in Hungary, the paper provides a test of pork barrel politics and clientelism serving as manifestations of behavioral localism; that is, if voters formulate expectations of politicians engaging in aforementioned practices based on their local roots. Respondents in treatment and control group were shown the same candidate profile, fictive politicians differing only in their local roots. Results demonstrate that respondents who were told that the candidate was born and living in their hometown were more likely to believe that the politician will “bring home the bacon” as opposed to those confronted with a randomly selected Hungarian settlement as the candidate’s birthplace and residence. Findings refine our understanding of friends-and-neighbors voting, as well as voters’ expectations about likely non-programmatic behavior of elected candidates.

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Distributive politics as behavioral localism: Evidence from a vignette experiment in Hungary

Kovarek

2022

Research & Politics

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“…However, LMP has also changed its ideological position. From a ‘revolutionary, communitarian, and pro‐welfare’ green party in its beginnings (Toth , p. 232), LMP has recently moved towards the centre, with its green programme being recently undermined by other pressing issues, including migration (Kovarek and Littway ). Some commentators of Hungarian politics, such as former professor Eva Balogh, editor of Hungarian Spectrum (), went as far as to claim that such positions epitomise LMP’s sharp turn to the right.…”

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‘Homeland farming’ or ‘rural emancipation’? The discursive overlap between populist and green parties in Hungary

Lubarda¹

2019

Sociologia Ruralis

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In their attempts to associate the nationalistic ideology with speculative promises to emancipate the people from malevolent 'outsiders', right-wing populists often engage with rural and agricultural topics. Meanwhile, green parties, commonly associated with the progressive ideas of environmentally friendly agriculture, occasionally employ the binary logic of agrarian populism. This paper has three objectives. First, to identify the discursive features of rural (right-wing and agrarian) populism. Second, to examine how these discursive differences unfold in agricultural, party politics. Third, to examine the implications of overlapping ideas of populist and green parties for emancipatory rural politics. The study is predominantly based on the analysis of political discourses in Hungary: Jobbik (right-wing populist) and LMP (green party), while the agricultural discourse of Fidesz, the ruling right-wing populist party will serve as the background to the analysis. Particular attention is given to the aesthetic, symbolic, and material dimensions of land in discourse, including environmentally friendly farming and the EU's Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). 'Homeland farming' or 'rural emancipation'?

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Social Media Communication by Hungarian Anti-establishment Parties in the Context of Italian Movimento Cinque Stelle

Molnár

Urbanovics

2021

Research and Innovation Forum 2020

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Where did all the environmentalism go? ‘Politics can be different’ (LMP) in the 2018 Hungarian parliamentary elections

Cited by 14 publications

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Distributive politics as behavioral localism: Evidence from a vignette experiment in Hungary

Distributive politics as behavioral localism: Evidence from a vignette experiment in Hungary

‘Homeland farming’ or ‘rural emancipation’? The discursive overlap between populist and green parties in Hungary

Social Media Communication by Hungarian Anti-establishment Parties in the Context of Italian Movimento Cinque Stelle

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