Securitization as a Voting Strategy – The Hungarian Government’s Political Communication in the 2018 Campaign on Migration and the European Union Cover Image

Biztonságiasítás mint szavazatszerző stratégia A magyar kormány 2018-as kampányban folytatott migrációval és Európai Unióval kapcsolatos politikai kommunikációja
Securitization as a Voting Strategy – The Hungarian Government’s Political Communication in the 2018 Campaign on Migration and the European Union

Author(s): Renáta Lilla Kiss
Subject(s): Politics and communication
Published by: MTA Politikai Tudományi Intézete
Keywords: securitization; populism; Euroscepticism; migration

Summary/Abstract: Using the methodology of security discourse analysis, the study seeks to answer the question of how the Hungarian government side secured the issue of migration in the 2018 Hungarian parliamentary elections. According to the literature, the Hungarian government has successfully secured it, as Hungarian citizens have legitimized the issue of migration security. I analyze the study according to the security methodology defi ned by the Copenhagen school, in which I identify the security actor and the factor he considers to be an existential threat, and examine the means and manifestations of the security actor mobilizing the target audience with the threat message. According to the author, the Hungarian government applied the issue of migration security exhaustively and communicated its wording to the electorate with populist elements and Eurosceptic rhetoric.

  • Issue Year: XXXI/2022
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 73-91
  • Page Count: 19
  • Language: Hungarian