Crucibles of political loyalty : church institutions and electoral continuity in Hungary / Jason Wittenberg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wittenberg, Jason, 1963-

Series:

Cambridge studies in comparative politics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Elections.

Church and state.

History.

Hungary--Church history--20th century.

Hungary.

Church history.

Church and state--Hungary--History--20th century.

Elections--Hungary--20th century.

Physical Description:

xiv, 293 pages : maps ; 24 cm.

Other Title:

Church institutions and electoral continuity in Hungary

Place of Publication:

New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006.

Contents:

The Paradox of Political Persistence 1

Political Continuity in Hungary 6

Refining the Problem 8

Anticipating the Argument 13

Research Design and Methods 15

A Road Map 18

1 Explaining Political Persistence 20

1.2 Theoretical Approaches 20

1.3 What Counts as Continuity? 30

1.4 Illuminating the Trajectory 38

1.5 An Institutional Explanation 42

2 Electoral Persistence and Volatility in Hungary 55

2.2 Precommunist Blocs and Elections 55

2.3 Postcommunist Blocs and Elections 59

2.4 Electoral Evolution, 1945-1998 65

3 The Churches First Confront Communism 76

3.2 The Churches before State-Socialism 76

3.3 Enfeeblement 82

3.4 Institutions of Surveillance and Control 88

4 The Battle for Souls, 1948-1956 114

4.2 Obstacles to Inculating Socialism 115

4.3 Repression and Resistance, 1949-1953 119

4.4 Exploiting Room to Maneuver, 1953-1956 135

4.5 1956 143

4.6 Assessing the Battle for Souls 145

5 The Battle for Souls After 1956 152

5.2 Normalization 154

5.3 The Party Offensive at the Local Level 161

5.4 Clerical Resistance 165

5.5 Collectivization 173

5.6 Elite Conciliation, Local Conflict 178

5.7 Reassessing the Battle for Souls 183

5.8 Beyond Religious Instruction 198

6 Church Community and Rightist Persistence: Statistical Evidence 201

6.2 Sample Characteristics 203

6.3 The Influence of the Past 206

6.4 The Importance of Church Community: Prima Facie Evidence 208

6.5 Multivariate Evidence 210

6.6 Unpacking "Church Community": Religious Trajectories Under Communism 221

6.7 Confessional Differences 224

6.8 Who Supported the Right? Ecological Inferences and Survey Results 228

7.2 Implications 238

7.3 Toward a General Theory of Persistence 242.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-284) and index.

ISBN:

0521849128

OCLC:

61179642

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