The aim of this joint research of Policy Solutions and Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung was to explore the views of the Hungarian society about the regime change of 1989-1990 after 30 years. Building on our empirical results, lessons can be drawn not only about the society’s assessment of the Kádár-regime 30 years on, but also about which hopes related to the regime transition were fulfilled and which ones were not, how Hungarians see different historical periods (Kádár regime, 1990-2010, Orbán-regime after 2010) through the lens of the financial situation of their families, and under which Hungarian governments was Hungarian democracy in the best condition.

The research is based on an opinion poll conducted by Závecz Research. Just before the coronavirus pandemic, 1000 people – representing the whole adult population of Hungary by age, gender, type of settlement and education – were interviewed personally between 3 and 13 March 2020.

The English summary of the research can be downloaded from here.

Authors: András Bíró-Nagy - Gergely Laki