Contextual outline - Jobbik-voters: who they are, what do they think?

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Contextual outline - Jobbik-voters who they are,
what do they think?
Peter Kreko Research Director, Political Capital
Institute Assistant Professor ELTE University,
Budapest, Pedagogical and Psychological Faculty

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Radical right in Hungary - Back by popular
demand?
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Tendency in support of Jobbik
Average percentage values of 4 polling institutes
(Tárki, Medián, Szonda Ipsos, Századvég)
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Current party preferences (average)
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Socio-demographic features of Jobbik voters
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The typical Jobbik voters?

• Losers of the transition
• Poor
• Undereducated
• Marginalized
• Strongly religous

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Poor?
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Undereducated?
Level of education (overall population)
Level of education (under the age of 35)
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Strongly Religious?
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Some attitudinal characteristics
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Summary

• Differences, but no gap
• Jobbik can build its politics on mainstream
  views of the society (anti-establishment
  attitudes, anti-roma prejudices, etc.)
• Jobbiks support seems to be more symbolic, than
  material in nature

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