CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2011
| Author | Riaposova, Luboslava |
|---|---|
| Title | The Role of Civil Society in Responding to 'Hate Speech' |
| Summary | ABSTRACT This thesis deals with the question of the extent of ‘hate speech’ regulations that respective countries should adopt in regards to the strength of their civil society. In the paper I suggest possible implementation of more liberal restrictions when the civil society in a country is considerably strong, while more restrictive policies may be needed if the country’s civil society is weak. I further set the criteria determining the strength or weakness of a civil society and apply them on the examples of Slovakia and Hungary. As the findings of this paper suggest, in spite of the fact that the civil society of Hungary and Slovakia is not particularly strong, it proved its ability to respond to ‘hate speech’ accurately in the important instances, and therefore the restrictions on ‘hate speech’ may not be needed, or they could be needed only to a certain extent. |
| Supervisor | Molnar, Peter |
| Department | Public Policy MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2011/riaposova_luboslava.pdf |
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