TELJES ELITVÁLTÁS MAGYARORSZÁGON A MÁSODIK VILÁGHÁBORÚ UTÁN
Complete Change of Elite in Hungary after the Second World War

Summary/Abstract: This study analyses the democratic period following the Second World War from the perspective of the Hungarian political elite. This period is characterised by a complete change of elite regarding both personal composition and the social and political background of the deputies. This study is searching for the causes of this radical change, based on statistical analysis of secondary quantitative data. The source of these data is the Hungarian Parliamentary Database prepared in the framework of an OTKA research programme and the Cube database created within the EURELIT project. This study firstly scrutinises the changes in the Hungarian political elite: persons, parties and characteristics. The aim is to present the extent and nature of the change by comparing the parameters of these legislatures with previous parliaments. Afterwards the peculiarities of the change and the characteristics of the deputies have to be compared to their West European counterparts. On the one hand, the analysis focuses on the similarities and differences in the extent of change. On the other, it studies whether as a result of the changes in the composition of the parliamentary elite Hungary is adapting to the Western model of parliamentary elite composition.

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