@article{MTMT:33757361,
	title = {Anti-democratic youth? The influence of youth cohort size and quality of democracy on young people’s support for democracy},
	url = {https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/33757361},
	author = {Nkansah, Godfred Bonnah and Bartha, Attila},
	doi = {10.1080/13569775.2023.2196877},
	journal-iso = {CONTEMP POLITICS},
	journal = {CONTEMPORARY POLITICS},
	volume = {29},
	unique-id = {33757361},
	issn = {1356-9775},
	year = {2023},
	eissn = {1469-3631},
	pages = {553-575},
	orcid-numbers = {Bartha, Attila/0000-0002-4590-2142}
}

@CONFERENCE{MTMT:33608663,
	title = {Agenda to Adoption: Understanding the Mechanisms Driving Fee-Free Policy Development in Sub-Saharan Africa Through Policy Change Frameworks},
	url = {https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/33608663},
	author = {Asante, Gabriel and Gajduschek, György and Bartha, Attila},
	booktitle = {Conference on Policy Process Research},
	unique-id = {33608663},
	year = {2023},
	orcid-numbers = {Asante, Gabriel/0000-0002-5635-0638}
}

@article{MTMT:33448136,
	title = {Agenda to adoption: understanding the mechanisms driving fee-free policy development in Sub-Saharan Africa through policy change frameworks},
	url = {https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/33448136},
	author = {Asante, Gabriel and Gajduschek, György and Bartha, Attila},
	doi = {10.1007/s11077-022-09473-3},
	journal-iso = {POLICY SCI},
	journal = {POLICY SCIENCES},
	unique-id = {33448136},
	issn = {0032-2687},
	abstract = {Policy change frameworks are commonly used to understand policy development processes. However, few studies have attempted to apply these frameworks to the recent popular fee-free policy education at the high school level in Sub-Saharan Africa. Investigating fee-free policy development through policy change frameworks can assist both in identifying the genesis of past policies, including who the important actors are, how issues are framed and problematised, and how specific solutions are designed, as well as how to interpret unfolding policies. In this article, we review three prominent policy change frameworks: Baumgartner and Jones' "punctuated equilibrium framework," Sabatier and Jenkins-Smith's "advocacy coalition framework," and Kingdon's "multiple streams framework." After reviewing the frameworks, we apply them to two fee-free policies in Ghana which are Progressive Free Senior High School and Free Senior High School policies to understand the drivers of fee-free policy change. From the socio-political background, three main concepts were derived from these policy change frameworks deducing from the basic assumptions of these theories. They are domestic politics, political and policy entrepreneurs, and socio-economic dynamics. The results show that fee-free policies are largely driven by domestic politics and political and policy entrepreneurs in political executive positions. Factors under socio-economic dynamics are only scope conditions that are not significant to trigger the adoption of a fee-free policy.},
	keywords = {Policy change; Ghana; Agenda-setting; policy adoption; High school education; Fee-free education},
	year = {2022},
	eissn = {1573-0891},
	orcid-numbers = {Asante, Gabriel/0000-0002-5635-0638}
}

@article{MTMT:32983717,
	title = {Rights Consciousness in Hungary and Some Comparative Remarks. Could an Increasing Level of Rights Consciousness Challenge the Autocratic Tradition?},
	url = {https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/32983717},
	author = {Fekete, Balázs and Bartha, Attila and Gajduschek, György and Gulya, Fruzsina},
	doi = {10.1163/15730352-bja10066},
	journal-iso = {REV CENT EAST EUR LAW},
	journal = {REVIEW OF CENTRAL AND EAST EUROPEAN LAW},
	volume = {47},
	unique-id = {32983717},
	issn = {0925-9880},
	abstract = {This article addresses the issue of rights consciousness in the context of the Hungarian legal culture. The paper first elaborates the theoretical and conceptual framework, then it describes the research design used for the empirical investigation. The empirical section of the article presents the findings about the Hungarian empirical analysis on rights consciousness with some comparative remarks, and then it reflects on the historically shaped socio-legal embeddedness of rights consciousness patterns in Hungary. In conclusion, the paper points out that the apparent broadening of rights consciousness as a normative pattern may counterbalance the widespread legal alienation rooted in the state Socialist past. Whether this transformation may mitigate the recent autocratic power aspirations is still an open question.},
	keywords = {Hungary; legal culture; rights consciousness},
	year = {2022},
	eissn = {1573-0352},
	pages = {220-248},
	orcid-numbers = {Fekete, Balázs/0000-0001-6353-3654}
}

@article{MTMT:32741790,
	title = {Two Decades of Penal Populism – The Case of Hungary},
	url = {https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/32741790},
	author = {Boda, Zsolt and Tóth, Mihály and Hollán, Miklós and Bartha, Attila},
	doi = {10.1163/15730352-bja10060},
	journal-iso = {REV CENT EAST EUR LAW},
	journal = {REVIEW OF CENTRAL AND EAST EUROPEAN LAW},
	volume = {47},
	unique-id = {32741790},
	issn = {0925-9880},
	year = {2022},
	eissn = {1573-0352},
	pages = {115-138},
	orcid-numbers = {Hollán, Miklós/0000-0001-7422-7337}
}

@article{MTMT:32706661,
	title = {The positive externality of education on crime: Insights from Sub-Saharan Africa},
	url = {https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/32706661},
	author = {Asante, Gabriel and Bartha, Attila},
	doi = {10.1080/23311886.2022.2038850},
	journal-iso = {COGENT SOCIAL SCIENCES},
	journal = {COGENT SOCIAL SCIENCES},
	volume = {8},
	unique-id = {32706661},
	issn = {2331-1886},
	abstract = {Although researchers have investigated the association between education and crime, few studies have studied Sub-Saharan Africa, which has the lowest rate of youth enrolled in high school. Notwithstanding, some countries are paying attention to high school education, whereby specific policies often termed “cost elimination” are designed to facilitate free education. At the micro-to-micro level, it is argued that enrolling and completing high school reduces the rate of criminal engagement. Against this backdrop, we investigate the effect of high school enrolment on the crime rate using macro-to-macro-level panel data about Sub-Saharan Africa countries from 2003 to 2018. Using theft and homicide rates as proxies for property and violent crime, respectively, our results show that an increase in enrolment has a significant negative effect on property crime. We find no evidence of a significant effect on violent crime. When addressing endogeneity bias using cost elimination as an instrument for enrolment, we find that the magnitude of the negative effect on the rate of theft is significantly greater and robust than the baseline estimates. These findings support the assumption that interventions that support access to education improve social structures and have the additional benefit of reducing the rate of theft, giving credence to social support theory. In a region where a majority of theft is committed by youth without a high school education, policymakers need to make concerted efforts to raise participation in high school as one of the means of reducing crime, rather than focusing exclusively on crime control.},
	year = {2022},
	eissn = {2331-1886},
	orcid-numbers = {Asante, Gabriel/0000-0002-5635-0638; Bartha, Attila/0000-0002-4590-2142}
}

@book{MTMT:34229208,
	title = {Populist Governance and Policies in Europe},
	url = {https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/34229208},
	author = {Bartha, Attila and A. Sotiropoulos, Dimitri and Katsikas, Dimitris and Tsatsanis, Manos and Pap, András László and Tóth, Mihály and Halász, Bálint and Žvaliauskas, Giedrius and Morkevičius, Vaidas and Butkevičienė, Eglė and Lipiński, Artur and Školkay, Andrej and Daniš, Igor and Vass-Vigh, Veronika and Krešić, Boris and Veljko, Turanjanin and Mihajlović, Borko and Osman, Sahin},
	publisher = {Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Centre for Social Sciences},
	unique-id = {34229208},
	abstract = {The rise of populist governance throughout the world offers a unique opportunity to analyse how populist leaders and parties govern. This study investigates the factors shaping the policies of populist governments. First, an ideal type of populist policy making is developed, elaborating the policy content, the policy discourse and the policy making procedure of populism. Then a congruence analysis is applied to test the conformity of policy making patterns with the ideal type in seven countries where populist parties have been in government. We study the two established cases of populist governance in the EU (post-2010 Hungary and post-2015 Poland), Greece where left-wing populist Syriza and the right-wing populist Anel governed between 2015 and 2018, two countries where populist parties had minor influence in governments (Lithuania and Slovakia) and two countries from the EU neighbourhood (Bosnia and Herzegovina and Turkey) where hybridization tendencies of populist governance can be observed. Policy making patterns are investigated in three policy areas: criminal justice policy, economic policy, and family policy. Our findings suggest that populist parties have a predominant role in shaping government policies in the policy discourse dimension. In addition, our analysis confirm that populist rulers may appear as particularly effective in policy reforms by circumventing conventional institutionalised policy mechanisms. Unmediated, top-down consultations and adversarial, polarising narratives accompanies policy changes when populist leaders govern. These features tend to undermine the institutions of liberal democracy and they inevitably foster social and political polarisation. There are two important implications of the discursive power of populism in policy making: a general need of wording policy messages in non-technocratic everyday language and a specific support of independent local journalism initiatives as highly trusted sources of policy information.},
	year = {2021},
	orcid-numbers = {Bartha, Attila/0000-0002-4590-2142; A. Sotiropoulos, Dimitri/0000-0002-7528-0583; Katsikas, Dimitris/0000-0002-7977-6519; Pap, András László/0000-0003-4546-6632; Žvaliauskas, Giedrius/0000-0001-8970-0756; Morkevičius, Vaidas/0000-0002-2174-0396; Butkevičienė, Eglė/0000-0002-5631-360X; Lipiński, Artur/0000-0002-1151-5486; Školkay, Andrej/0000-0002-8445-0580; Mihajlović, Borko/0000-0002-5770-8451; Osman, Sahin/0000-0002-0815-9433}
}

@article{MTMT:32550377,
	title = {Tartós gondoskodás és nemek közötti egyenlőség az európai jóléti rendszerekben},
	url = {https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/32550377},
	author = {Bartha, Attila and Zentai, Violetta},
	doi = {10.18030/socio.hu.2021.4.27},
	journal-iso = {SOCIO.HU},
	journal = {SOCIO.HU : TÁRSADALOMTUDOMÁNYI SZEMLE},
	volume = {11},
	unique-id = {32550377},
	year = {2021},
	eissn = {2063-0468},
	pages = {27-46}
}

@book{MTMT:32769094,
	title = {What Kind of Public Policies Trigger Populism?},
	url = {https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/32769094},
	author = {Bartha, Attila and Bazoti, Pery and Benedek, István and Butkevičienė, Eglė and Katsikas, Dimitrios and Morkevičius, Vaidas and Sahin, Osman and Schlett, Bálint and Žvaliauskas, Giedrius},
	publisher = {Centre for Social Sciences},
	unique-id = {32769094},
	year = {2020}
}

@CONFERENCE{MTMT:32037626,
	title = {Discursive Governance and Populist Pandemic Policies. (2020)},
	url = {https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/32037626},
	author = {Bartha, Attila and Boda, Zsolt},
	booktitle = {Democracy, Difference, and Destabilization. APSA Annual Virtual Meeting, 2020},
	unique-id = {32037626},
	year = {2020},
	pages = {1}
}