Social Capital, Diversity and Trust in Hungary: Two Case Studies
Author: Andrew Cartwright Endre Sik Sara Svensson
Publisher: Center for Policy Studies at the Central European University, Budapest, Hungary
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This paper addresses the question of how far diversity in Hungary may be connected to levels of trust in communities. We were unable to find any academic studies which addressed the relationship between trust and diversity in the terms outlined in the guidelines. We have tried to piece together various data sources and connect them to two ongoing debates, which in our view, touch this relationship between trust and diversity.
The diversity of nationalities and trust focuses on what analysts have made of attitudes to the, albeit small, increases in foreign born nationals living in Hungary. The second debate that we look at focuses on the increasing differentiation of education in Hungary and asks whether this is seen as influencing patterns of trust. It includes both the new types of non-state education institutions and the secondly, the phenomena of educational segregation, whereby certain schools, particularly in rural settlements, are regarded as Roma only schools. Both topics have been the subject of widespread comment and debate in Hungary, although without much systematic study so far.
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