THE APPEARENCE OF THE RADICAL RIGHT IN DIFFERENT SETTLEMENT TYPES

Abstract

The appearence of radicalism is a contemporary phenomenon which can be traced worldwide. Part of the phenomenon is the rise of Islamic fundamentalism, partly the presidential campaign in US and the consolidation of Pegida in Germany and the Austrian Freedom Party (FPÖ). Furthermore different kinds of radical right-wing parties have appeared in post-socialist Central and Eastern Europe in several waves and with different intensity. In Hungary, the parliamentary elections held in 2010 resulted a substantial rearrangement among the parliamentary parties. Left-liberal parties became significantly weaker while the national radical party (JOBBIK) came into parliament with a robust voters’s support. The expansion of the radical right continued in 2014 when JOBBIK won its second parliamentary term.The aim of this study is to give a pictures about the performance of the radical right party in Hungary and to categorize the radical party preferences by different settelement size. For the sake of analysis I distinguished different groups of settlements (e.g. over 10 000 people, 10 000-5000 people, 5000-2000 people, 2000-500 people, 500-200 people and less than 200 people). I also analyzed how socioeconomic conditions influenced the radicalization of voters according to Beluszky and Sikos (2011) village typology.