Our next guest of speaker series of Institute for Political Science is Zsolt Enyedi (CEU) with the presentation entitled:

The network of ideological orientations in Hungary

Ideological orientations, together with socio-structural and organizational-behavioral characteristics of individuals, are fundamental constituents of political cleavages. Yet, in empirical studies they receive considerably less attention than the other two mentioned aspects. The lecture demonstrates that the application of network analytic techniques to ideological identifications can help us in understanding the segmentation, polarization, and clustering of the political community. The analysis relies on survey-data showing the self-placements on left-right, conservative-liberal and radical-moderate scales of Hungarian citizens and their identification with eight socio-political labels. The paper also show how the changes in the configuration of identifications were related to the changes in the orientation and alliance structure of parties.

Co-author of the paper is Róbert Tardos (Eötvös Loránd University of Budapest).