Daniel Kovarek
Biographic Data
| ID | 2556488 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Daniel Kovarek |
| GIVEN NAMES | Daniel |
| FAMILY NAME | Kovarek |
| SIGNATURE | KOVAREK D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Central European University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3385-3742 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 64 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
The effect of MEPs' local ties on perceived representation
Concerned with the electoral and attitudinal effects of localness, a large literature studies how candidates’ and elected deputies’ local ties shape perceived responsiveness, accountability, policy performance and ideological congruence. This article advances the literature by studying this relationship in the context of the European Parliament. Using fixed effects, I analyze original survey data from representative samples of four European count…
Unequal Solidarity
Is European solidarity during crises due to common or close identities? Or do Europeans punish rule‐breaking countries by showing them less solidarity? Research on the determinants of European solidarity increasingly focuses on ‘solidarity to’, how givers' attitudes are shaped by their perceptions of receiving member states. Amongst many, there are two possible channels of solidarity in the EU: either through a common identity or through the perc…
Elite defection and opposition realignment in Hungary
Published online: 24 February 2025
Neighbors with benefits
Existing literature suggests bureaucrats shirk when political oversight is limited or inefficient. When civil servants engage in multitasking, elected office holders have neither the capacity nor the incentives to monitor bureaucrat–citizen interactions. I argue that under such circumstances, public servants prioritize responding to local anomalies which are located in the immediate vicinity of politicians. Using a novel dataset on geolocated cit…
Last place aversion, labour market competition or welfare state model? Explaining anti-immigrant sentiment in Hungary with a conjoint experiment
Much ink has been spilled to explain how the relative socio-economic position of natives and immigrants might shape anti-immigrant sentiment. However, little effort has been made to pit three competing theories: last place aversion, labour market competition and the welfare state model directly against each other, despite their often-times contradicting implications. This paper tests these alternative theories in Hungary, where the 2015 migration…
Charter–manifesto congruence as a signal for issue salience
This article proposes a proxy for issue salience via studying congruence between parties’ organizational structure and the policies they promote to their voters. This charter-manifesto congruence, i.e. institutionalizing the same democratic innovations at the intra-party level and advocating for their adoption at the national level, is particularly useful to demarcate party profiles in dominant party systems and electoral autocracies. To demonstr…
Masking the Strangulation of Opposition Parties as Pandemic Response
While a large literature studies the various tools of autocratic survival, targeting opposition actors with austerity measures in electoral autocracies is hitherto understudied. This paper argues that the COVID-19 pandemic has provided a rare opportunity for Hungary’s Fidesz party to disarm opposition parties via cutting off resources of municipalities led by opposition mayors and eliminating any remnants of local governments’ fiscal autonomy. An…
False friends in studying friends-and-neighbors voting
Distributive politics as behavioral localism
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 el…
Greater than the sum of its part(ie)s
The Hungarian municipal elections of October 2019 were the first ray of hope for the numerous political forces aiming to topple the decade-long Fidesz rule. In this election, the opposition won Budapest’s mayoral seat and 10 of the 23 larger cities (turning 8). They also won majorities in the capital’s assembly and among the 23 district mayors (turning 10). This was possible through unprecedented coordination of all viable opposition parties, ele…
Prime ministers in minority governments
Whereas early scholarship depicted minority cabinets as weak recent findings demonstrate how various factors contribute to effective minority governance. Nevertheless, the role of prime ministers (PMs) was largely ignored in the performance of these cabinets. The paper addresses this problem by comparing Hungary's only two minority governments in an MSSD framework. Combining a qualitative review with a quantitative analysis of voting patterns in …
A csoportközi kontaktus biztonságérzetre gyakorolt hatása
A tanulmány a csoportközi érintkezés és a biztonságérzet közötti oksági összefüggést teszteli egy közép-magyarországi település példáján. A 2015-től kezdődő menekültválság és az erre épülő kormányzati kampány döntően tematizálta a közhangulatot, és átalakította nemcsak a menekültekhez, de az Európán kívüli területekről származó emberekhez társított asszociációkat is. Számos magyar számára a menekültek „betelepítésének” lehetősége, az eltérő bőrsz…
Extrinsic and Intrinsic Work Values
Academic literature emphasizes the importance of work values to job satisfaction and commitment. There is agreement that work values are multidimensional-most often identified as having extrinsic and intrinsic elements. However, little work has gone into assessing the measurement invariance of work values in different contexts. In this contribution, we ask, Do we find similar patterns of extrinsic and intrinsic work values across different cultur…
Where did all the environmentalism go? 'Politics can be different' (LMP) in the 2018 Hungarian parliamentary elections
In April 2018, Lehet Más a Politika (LMP) reinforced its position as the strongest Green party in Central and Eastern Europe, passing the 5% parliamentary threshold for the third time and becoming the sole opposition party to gain votes. In the preceding 4 years, LMP had dealt with the resignation of its most visible co-chair András Schiffer and rebranded itself as an anti-corruption critic of Viktor Orbán’s Fidesz government, which distracted fr…
Greater than the sum of its part(ie)s
The Hungarian municipal elections of October 2019 were the first ray of hope for the numerous political forces aiming to topple the decade-long Fidesz rule. In this election, the opposition won Budapest’s mayoral seat and 10 of the 23 larger cities (turning 8). They also won majorities in the capital’s assembly and among the 23 district mayors (turning 10). This was possible through unprecedented coordination of all viable opposition parties, ele…
Where did all the environmentalism go? 'Politics can be different' (LMP) in the 2018 Hungarian parliamentary elections
In April 2018, Lehet Más a Politika (LMP) reinforced its position as the strongest Green party in Central and Eastern Europe, passing the 5% parliamentary threshold for the third time and becoming the sole opposition party to gain votes. In the preceding 4 years, LMP had dealt with the resignation of its most visible co-chair András Schiffer and rebranded itself as an anti-corruption critic of Viktor Orbán’s Fidesz government, which distracted fr…
Extrinsic and Intrinsic Work Values
Academic literature emphasizes the importance of work values to job satisfaction and commitment. There is agreement that work values are multidimensional-most often identified as having extrinsic and intrinsic elements. However, little work has gone into assessing the measurement invariance of work values in different contexts. In this contribution, we ask, Do we find similar patterns of extrinsic and intrinsic work values across different cultur…
Elite defection and opposition realignment in Hungary
Published online: 24 February 2025
Masking the Strangulation of Opposition Parties as Pandemic Response
While a large literature studies the various tools of autocratic survival, targeting opposition actors with austerity measures in electoral autocracies is hitherto understudied. This paper argues that the COVID-19 pandemic has provided a rare opportunity for Hungary’s Fidesz party to disarm opposition parties via cutting off resources of municipalities led by opposition mayors and eliminating any remnants of local governments’ fiscal autonomy. An…
Distributive politics as behavioral localism
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 el…
Prime ministers in minority governments
Whereas early scholarship depicted minority cabinets as weak recent findings demonstrate how various factors contribute to effective minority governance. Nevertheless, the role of prime ministers (PMs) was largely ignored in the performance of these cabinets. The paper addresses this problem by comparing Hungary's only two minority governments in an MSSD framework. Combining a qualitative review with a quantitative analysis of voting patterns in …
Last place aversion, labour market competition or welfare state model? Explaining anti-immigrant sentiment in Hungary with a conjoint experiment
Much ink has been spilled to explain how the relative socio-economic position of natives and immigrants might shape anti-immigrant sentiment. However, little effort has been made to pit three competing theories: last place aversion, labour market competition and the welfare state model directly against each other, despite their often-times contradicting implications. This paper tests these alternative theories in Hungary, where the 2015 migration…
Charter–manifesto congruence as a signal for issue salience
This article proposes a proxy for issue salience via studying congruence between parties’ organizational structure and the policies they promote to their voters. This charter-manifesto congruence, i.e. institutionalizing the same democratic innovations at the intra-party level and advocating for their adoption at the national level, is particularly useful to demarcate party profiles in dominant party systems and electoral autocracies. To demonstr…
Neighbors with benefits
Existing literature suggests bureaucrats shirk when political oversight is limited or inefficient. When civil servants engage in multitasking, elected office holders have neither the capacity nor the incentives to monitor bureaucrat–citizen interactions. I argue that under such circumstances, public servants prioritize responding to local anomalies which are located in the immediate vicinity of politicians. Using a novel dataset on geolocated cit…
Extrinsic and Intrinsic Work Values
Academic literature emphasizes the importance of work values to job satisfaction and commitment. There is agreement that work values are multidimensional-most often identified as having extrinsic and intrinsic elements. However, little work has gone into assessing the measurement invariance of work values in different contexts. In this contribution, we ask, Do we find similar patterns of extrinsic and intrinsic work values across different cultur…
Where did all the environmentalism go? 'Politics can be different' (LMP) in the 2018 Hungarian parliamentary elections
In April 2018, Lehet Más a Politika (LMP) reinforced its position as the strongest Green party in Central and Eastern Europe, passing the 5% parliamentary threshold for the third time and becoming the sole opposition party to gain votes. In the preceding 4 years, LMP had dealt with the resignation of its most visible co-chair András Schiffer and rebranded itself as an anti-corruption critic of Viktor Orbán’s Fidesz government, which distracted fr…
A csoportközi kontaktus biztonságérzetre gyakorolt hatása
A tanulmány a csoportközi érintkezés és a biztonságérzet közötti oksági összefüggést teszteli egy közép-magyarországi település példáján. A 2015-től kezdődő menekültválság és az erre épülő kormányzati kampány döntően tematizálta a közhangulatot, és átalakította nemcsak a menekültekhez, de az Európán kívüli területekről származó emberekhez társított asszociációkat is. Számos magyar számára a menekültek „betelepítésének” lehetősége, az eltérő bőrsz…
Prime ministers in minority governments
Whereas early scholarship depicted minority cabinets as weak recent findings demonstrate how various factors contribute to effective minority governance. Nevertheless, the role of prime ministers (PMs) was largely ignored in the performance of these cabinets. The paper addresses this problem by comparing Hungary's only two minority governments in an MSSD framework. Combining a qualitative review with a quantitative analysis of voting patterns in …
Distributive politics as behavioral localism
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 el…
Greater than the sum of its part(ie)s
The Hungarian municipal elections of October 2019 were the first ray of hope for the numerous political forces aiming to topple the decade-long Fidesz rule. In this election, the opposition won Budapest’s mayoral seat and 10 of the 23 larger cities (turning 8). They also won majorities in the capital’s assembly and among the 23 district mayors (turning 10). This was possible through unprecedented coordination of all viable opposition parties, ele…
Masking the Strangulation of Opposition Parties as Pandemic Response
While a large literature studies the various tools of autocratic survival, targeting opposition actors with austerity measures in electoral autocracies is hitherto understudied. This paper argues that the COVID-19 pandemic has provided a rare opportunity for Hungary’s Fidesz party to disarm opposition parties via cutting off resources of municipalities led by opposition mayors and eliminating any remnants of local governments’ fiscal autonomy. An…
False friends in studying friends-and-neighbors voting
Last place aversion, labour market competition or welfare state model? Explaining anti-immigrant sentiment in Hungary with a conjoint experiment
Much ink has been spilled to explain how the relative socio-economic position of natives and immigrants might shape anti-immigrant sentiment. However, little effort has been made to pit three competing theories: last place aversion, labour market competition and the welfare state model directly against each other, despite their often-times contradicting implications. This paper tests these alternative theories in Hungary, where the 2015 migration…
Charter–manifesto congruence as a signal for issue salience
This article proposes a proxy for issue salience via studying congruence between parties’ organizational structure and the policies they promote to their voters. This charter-manifesto congruence, i.e. institutionalizing the same democratic innovations at the intra-party level and advocating for their adoption at the national level, is particularly useful to demarcate party profiles in dominant party systems and electoral autocracies. To demonstr…
The effect of MEPs' local ties on perceived representation
Concerned with the electoral and attitudinal effects of localness, a large literature studies how candidates’ and elected deputies’ local ties shape perceived responsiveness, accountability, policy performance and ideological congruence. This article advances the literature by studying this relationship in the context of the European Parliament. Using fixed effects, I analyze original survey data from representative samples of four European count…
Unequal Solidarity
Is European solidarity during crises due to common or close identities? Or do Europeans punish rule‐breaking countries by showing them less solidarity? Research on the determinants of European solidarity increasingly focuses on ‘solidarity to’, how givers' attitudes are shaped by their perceptions of receiving member states. Amongst many, there are two possible channels of solidarity in the EU: either through a common identity or through the perc…
Elite defection and opposition realignment in Hungary
Published online: 24 February 2025
Neighbors with benefits
Existing literature suggests bureaucrats shirk when political oversight is limited or inefficient. When civil servants engage in multitasking, elected office holders have neither the capacity nor the incentives to monitor bureaucrat–citizen interactions. I argue that under such circumstances, public servants prioritize responding to local anomalies which are located in the immediate vicinity of politicians. Using a novel dataset on geolocated cit…
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