Crucibles of Political Loyalty - Church Institutions and Electoral Continuity in Hungary

Klappentext Why do mass political loyalties persist even amid prolonged social and economic upheaval? Drawing on archival materials and an original election database! this book explores this question by examining Hungary's path from pre- to post-communism. Despite the many depredations of communism! the Churches transmitted loyalties to right-wing parties. Harassed by communist party cadres! local clergymen employed ingenious tactics to ensure the survival of local church institutions. These institutions insulated their adherents from pressures to assimilate into the surrounding socialist milieu! leading to political continuity between pre- and post-communism. Zusammenfassung This book investigates one of the oldest paradoxes in political science: why do mass political loyalties persist even amid prolonged social and economic upheaval? Drawing on archival materials and an original election database! this book explores this question by examining Hungary's path from pre- to post-communism. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Explaining political persistence; 2. Electoral persistence and volatility in Hungary; 3. The churches first confront communism; 4. The battle for souls, 1948-56; 5. The battle for souls after 1956; 6. Church community and rightist persistence: statistical evidence; 7. Conclusion.

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• Authors: Jason Wittenberg, Jason (University of California Wittenberg
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.12.2006
• EAN: 9780521849128
• ISBN: 978-0-521-84912-8
• No. of pages: 312
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics; Cambridge Studies in Comparati
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education