Orbán’s children. A cohort and period analysis of Hungarians’ attitudes during the illiberal period of Viktor Orbán

By Francisco Daniel Alvarez Langenbach

Summary: Previous literature argues that certain political periods can have a lasting attitudinal effect on the new generations. Examining the case of Viktor Orbán’s governments, this Master´s thesis argues that: (1) there is a period effect  in terms of left-right positioning; (2) Although ‘Orbán’s children’ are not more ‘Orbánist’ than their elders, they are not less so either.; (3) and attitudinal differences are more a reflect of a partisan rather than an intergenerational conflict.

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