Hungary
Unpicking the Permissive Consensus
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6405728 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Brigid Fowler (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2004 |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 624-651 |
| Publication date | 2004-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | West European Politics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0140-2382 • E-ISSN: 1743-9655 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/0140238042000249894 |
| OpenAlex | W2033806477 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 9 |
Hungary's was the only referendum on EU membership held in Western or East-Central Europe by the time of the Union's 2004 enlargement in which less than half the electorate participated. The 'yes' result was high, reflecting broad pro-accession sentiment but also low participation, a relationship linked to the status of EU membership in the post-communist context. This analysis focuses on explaining the low referendum turnout. It finds that most non-participation was due to longstanding features of Hungarian electoral behaviour and public attitudes to the EU which feature in Szczerbiak and Taggart's model, namely low levels of participation in elections in general and referendums in particular, low contestation of EU membership at elite and mass levels, and a low intensity of EU-related preferences. It also suggests that the kind of anti-government partisanship which in non-post-communist settings might be translated into 'no' positions, in the Hungarian case primarily contributed further to abstention
Accession · Communism · Context (archaeology · Economics · Elite · European union · Geography · Government (linguistics · International trade · Linguistics · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Referendum · Resizing · Sociology · Turnout · Voting · European and International Law Studies · European Politics and Security · European Union Policy and Governance · Law
Electoral Systems and Political Transformation in Post-Communist Europe
Nation, State, Europe and national revival in Hungarian party politics
Parliamentary Election Turnout in Europe since 1990
Attitudes to Europe
The Two Sides of Euroscepticism
Choosing the West? Referendum choices on EU membership in east-central Europe
Polish Public Opinion
Transitional Winners and Losers
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0,12 |
| Citation span | 2009 - 2013 (5) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |