Youth against the Orbán-regime Young supporters of the Hungarian Two-tailed Dog Party and Beyond

Proceedings of The 4th International Conference on Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts

Year: 2023

DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.33422/4th.icsha.2023.04.003

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Youth against the Orbán-regime Young supporters of the Hungarian Two-tailed Dog Party and Beyond

Péter Szegedi

ABSTRACT: 

The Hungarian Two-tailed Dog Party (MKKP) has become an organic part of the Hungarian party system in the last few years. The MKKP is considered a joke and an anti-establishment party. Our survey (N=7537) attempts to answer the question of what the supporters of the MKKP think about their party and other Hungarian parties, and how they describe the attributions of the joke party. The presentation would like to highlight the supporters of the MKKP in generational context and their anti-establishment attitudes. Are they only against the government or the whole political system? Our other aim is to describe the cluster of the younger voters of the MKKP and try to understand their motivation and disappointment and their anti-political attitudes. Hungarian youth are either against politics or they are apolitical, but the MKKP is somehow able to involve these young people into politics, even into the operation of the party. Our perception is that this is because of the MKKP’s new party organizing method which they use in the last few years. The differences induced by the generational cleavages are becoming more and more cardinal phenomena in Western societies. Thus, the presentation attempts to identify these characteristics among the advocates of the MKKP through the way they are thinking about the traditional establishment parties. As a result, we can say that the respondents belonging to the younger age group differ in their political values from the older generations in several aspects. Firstly, they are much more active in the party’s work and actively participate in its daily activities. Secondly, they are not only dissatisfied with the ruling party but also with other mainstream parties integrated into the system. Thirdly, ideologically, the respondents perceive the party as more centrist, despite their dissatisfaction with the entire party system. Therefore, the MKKP represents a form of centrist radicalism.

keywords: generations, political parties, anti-establishment, hybrid regime

Proceedings of The 4th International Conference on Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts

Year: 2023

DOI:

[PDF]

Youth against the Orbán-regime Young supporters of the Hungarian Two-tailed Dog Party and Beyond

Péter Szegedi

ABSTRACT: 

The Hungarian Two-tailed Dog Party (MKKP) has become an organic part of the Hungarian party system in the last few years. The MKKP is considered a joke and anti-establishment party. Our survey (N=7537) attempts to answer the question what do the supporters of the MKKP think about their party and about other Hungarian parties, and how they describe the attributions of the joke party. The presentation would like to highlight the supporters of the MKKP in generational context and their anti-establishment attitudes. Are they only against the government or the whole political system? Our other aim is to describe the cluster of the younger voter of the MKKP and try to understand their motivation and disappointment and their anti-political attitudes. Hungarian youth are either against politics or they are apolitical, but the MKKP is somehow able to involve these young people into politics, even into the operation of the party. Our perception is that this is because of the MKKP’s new party organizing method what they use in the last few years.

keywords: generations, political parties, anti-establishment, hybrid regime, movement parties