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| List of Figures | |
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| List of Tables | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Paradox of Political Persistence | |
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| Political Continuity in Hungary | |
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| Refining the Problem | |
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| Anticipating the Argument | |
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| Research Design and Methods | |
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| A Road Map | |
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| Explaining Political Persistence | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Theoretical Approaches | |
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| What Counts as Continuity? | |
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| Illuminating the Trajectory | |
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| An Institutional Explanation | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Electoral Persistence and Volatility in Hungary | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Precommunist Blocs and Elections | |
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| Postcommunist Blocs and Elections | |
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| Electoral Evolution, 1945-1998 | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| The Churches First Confront Communism | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Churches before State-Socialism | |
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| Enfeeblement | |
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| Institutions of Surveillance and Control | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| The Battle for Souls, 1948-1956 | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Obstacles to Inculating Socialism | |
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| Repression and Resistance, 1949-1953 | |
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| Exploiting Room to Maneuver, 1953-1956 | |
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| 1956 | |
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| Assessing the Battle for Souls | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| The Battle for Souls After 1956 | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Normalization | |
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| The Party Offensive at the Local Level | |
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| Clerical Resistance | |
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| Collectivization | |
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| Elite Conciliation, Local Conflict | |
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| Reassessing the Battle for Souls | |
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| Beyond Religious Instruction | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Church Community and Rightist Persistence: Statistical Evidence | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Sample Characteristics | |
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| The Influence of the Past | |
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| The Importance of Church Community: Prima Facie Evidence | |
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| Multivariate Evidence | |
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| Unpacking "Church Community": Religious Trajectories Under Communism | |
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| Confessional Differences | |
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| Who Supported the Right? Ecological Inferences and Survey Results | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Implications | |
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| Toward a General Theory of Persistence | |
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| Appendices | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Seconday Sources | |
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| Primary Sources | |
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| Index | |