(apologies for cross-posting)
Members of the list may be interested in the below information on a new book
on Local Development, Institutions and Conflicts in Post-Socialist Hungary
For more information please contact:
Maarten Keune
European University Institute
Badia Fiesolana
Via dei Roccettini 9
I-50016 San Domenico di Fiesole (FI)
ITALY
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Copies can be obtained from:
ILO-CEET
Mozsar utca 14
H-1066 Budapest
Hungary
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Keune, Maarten and Jozsef Nemes Nagy (eds.). 2001. Local Development,
Institutions and Conflicts in Post-Socialist Hungary, ILO, Budapest
ISBN 92-2-112471-1
"The present publication builds on extensive empirical research that was
carried out by a multidisciplinary group of researchers accross a wide
variety of regions in Hungary. It focuses on the local-institutional
dimension of economic development in Hungary in the 1990s. A range of
responses to the challenges posed by the post-socialist transformation are
presented, shedding light on questions such as how these local responses are
shaped by local institutions, how they are related to pre-1989 economic,
social and institutional development, and what has been the interaction
between local areas, on the one hand, and the state, international economic
integration and foreign investors on the other. In addition, the study
highlights the main local-level conflicts that have come to the surface in
the post-socialist era between local interest groups, between urban and
rural areas and between different local development objectives that are hard
to reconcile."
Table of content:
Foreword
List of contributors
Acknowledgements
Part I The local dimension of economic development in Hungary in the 1990s
Chapter 1: Local development, institutions and conflicts in post-socialist
Hungary: an overview
Maarten Keune
Chapter 2: Regional processes at the end of the millennium: An overwhelming
transformation with individual courses of development
Jozsef Nemes Nagy
Part II Case studies
Chapter 3: Sub-urbanisation and economic development in Budaors, Hungary's
most successful town
Eva Izsak
Chapter 4: Tourism and politics: the rise of the lower-middle class in the
West Balaton region
Andras Csite
Chapter 5: Foreign investment, institutions and local development: successes
and controversies in Gyor
Maarten Keune and Andras Toth
Chapter 6: Local development and institutions at the periphery of the
economic centre: the sub-regions of Vac and Retsag
Pal Szabo and Gabor Varga
Chapter 7: Unfinished attempts at promoting regional development in the
stagnating periphery - the case of the Mako sub-region
Karoly Galli
Chapter 8: Dynamism in backwardness? Szabolcs-Szatmar-Bereg County and
Nyiregyhaza in the 1990s
Janos Peter Kiss
Statistical annex
Bibliography
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