The subject matter of the study lies in the analysis of the voting behaviors and political attitudes of Slovaks living in the southern regions of Slovakia dominated by (ethnic) Hungarians. The objective is to verify or falsify the commonly held view that the attitudes of these Slovaks vis-\u00e0-vis the Hungarians are fundamentally different from the attitudes of \u201enorthern\u201d Slovaks. The authors\u00b4 conclusions show that there is no significant difference between these two groups of Slovaks. Slovaks living in towns are mo\u00adre open towards European values represented by \u201estan\u00addard\u201d democratic parties. Nevertheless, the populist and nationalist parties also enjoy significant support, comparable to other Slovak regions. The influence of Bratislava and her mo\u00adre liberal milieu is evident in regions close to the Capital. At the same time, a gradual strengthening of the \u201eself-defending\u201d ref\u00adlex of Slovaks living in towns, such as Kom\u00e1rno, which have for a long time been politically dominated by the Hungarian Coalition Party, can be observed. Slovaks living in isolated rural settlements within Hungarian dominated areas, and Slovaks living at the ethnic border (and within the virtual Slovak-Hungarian revised state border of 1938) prefer \u2013 in a much higher degree than the national average \u2013 the parties of Vla\u00addi\u00adm\u00edr Me\u00e8iar and J\u00e1n Slota. The problem of representation and enforcement of the \u201eethnic national\u201d (political, cultural, educational) interests of the actual local or regional minority, be it the Hungarian or the Slovak one, remains unsolved. It is unlikely that the Hungarian Coalition Party could play the role of a \u201eregio\u00adnal\u201d party in Slovakia in the future. It will remain an ethnic party, but it should be mo\u00adre open towards other inhabitants of the reg\u00adion and should not focus only on the \u201ecore\u201d Hungarian electorate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The subject matter of the study lies in the analysis of the voting behaviors and political attitudes of Slovaks living in the southern regions of Slovakia dominated by (ethnic) Hungarians. The objective is to verify or falsify the commonly held view that the attitudes of these Slovaks vis-\u00e0-vis the Hungarians are fundamentally different from the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":870,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555,568,540],"tags":[],"post_year":[],"coauthors":[264],"class_list":["post-1972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum-social-science-review","category-studies","category-szemle"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n