CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2019
| Author | Tóth, Barnabás Felicián |
|---|---|
| Title | Privileged and Discriminated Citizens of Slovakian Ethnic Democracy |
| Summary | The Hungarian minority of Slovakia seems to suffer from a structural ethnic injustice, whereby members of the minority community become disadvantaged solely as a result of their belonging in the minority. Are the structural relations between the Hungarian and Slovak citizens of Slovakia truly unjust? Does the Slovakian democracy enjoy democratic legitimacy even beside the presumed ethnic injustice? The thesis examines these research questions for the case of Slovakia between the years of 1998 and 2019. First, the thesis claims that ethnic democracy might be a proper concept to describe Slovakia’s ethnopolitical regime. Second, it analyses the normative worth of ethnic democracy within the tradition of liberal political philosophy and concludes that ethnic democracy treats its citizens inherently unjustly and it has a weakened democratic legitimacy. Third, it demonstrates that the Slovakian case shows a considerable fit with the concept of ethnic democracy. To aid the classification of the case the thesis statistically analyses the Slovakian state’s resource allocation and finds that Hungarian citizens receive significantly less compared to majority citizens. The thesis concludes that Slovakia is an ethnic democracy and thus should undertake institutional reforms to change its regime to one which resolves ethnic injustice and restores the democratic legitimacy of the Slovakian state. |
| Supervisor | Miklósi Zoltán |
| Department | Political Science MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2019/toth_barnabas.pdf |
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