CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2013
| Author | Török, Lili |
|---|---|
| Title | The Voice of a Disappointed Generation: Student Mobilization in Hungary in the 2000s |
| Summary | Everywhere in the world students have started to mobilize in the past few years, and Hungary was no exception: in 2011-2013, there were more student protests than ever before since the early transition years. In the meantime, protest activity among the young on left and right alike also peaked in 2011, while there has been an earlier upsurge in mobilization on the radical right in the mid-2000s. Although exogenous causes can account for the timing of the protests and provide a macro-level explanation, in order to understand the increasing militancy of students, as well as the time lag between mobilization on the radical right and the left, endogenous causes should be considered. In accordance with Albert O. Hirschman’s theory of shifting involvements, it seems like the increased mobilization of Hungarian students is rooted in three kinds of disappointment: disappointment with democracy, disappointment with higher education, and disappointment with truncated mobility. While these types differ across different groups of students, it is possible that it is the simultaneous mobilization of these groups that caused the upsurge in protest activity for a generation otherwise uninterested in politics. |
| Supervisor | Greskovits, Béla |
| Department | International Relations MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2013/torok_lili.pdf |
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