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The goal of this article is to analyse the changes in the normative regulations concerning the political representation of members of national minorities in the Republic of Croatia in 1990-2004. These regulations are contrasted with their practical use. Furthermore, attention is turned to the political dimension of these issues, visible through the incessant amendments to regulations. The period from 1990 to 2004 was selected due to the fact that the first legal regulations governing this question were introduced in the Republic of Croatia in 1990, while 2004 saw the final constitution of the last bodies representing this group of citizens provided by law. Moreover, the author aims to prove that on their own normative regulations – even if favourable for minorities – are never sufficient to speak about protection of minority rights, if the good will to respect them in practice is missing
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The study discusses the dynamics of voter interest of the Hungarians living in Slovakia, their election preferences and opinions on the current Hungarian political representation in Slovakia. It is based on the sociological surveys conducted by the Institute for Minority Research since the turn of the millennium. The last survey was undertaken in June 2019. It was carried out in 149 municipalities of southern Slovakia. The sample consisted of 1000 adult subjects of Hungarian nationality and was representative in terms of gender, age, education, proportion of Hungarian population in individual districts and type of municipality. According to 88% of the respondents, it is necessary for the Hungarians in Slovakia to have their own political representation. 67% of the respondents believe that its most adequate expression would be one Hungarian political party while for 21%, it would be several mutually cooperating Hungarian parties. If parliamentary elections were held now, 67% of the respondents would participate and 59% of the respondents would vote for the current Hungarian parties. Should these parties merge, 75% would participate in the elections and 70% would vote for a joint Hungarian political entity.
Sociológia (Sociology)
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2019
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vol. 51
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issue 5
483 – 501
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The article identifies and analyses the patterns of political representation of the regions of Slovakia in terms of the functioning of the proportional electoral system with only one electoral district for the whole country. In this system, the representation of the region of the capital city, which is several times higher than the representation of other regions, dominates significantly. At the same time, a Western-Eastern gradient was identified in the regional political representation pattern, where the more economically developed western part of the country is politically much better represented than the peripheral regions of eastern Slovakia. The impact of a single electoral district is relevant in the geographical context as well as in significant centralization of the political power within the party-political system.
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