The Retreat of Liberal Democracy
The Retreat of Liberal Democracy

Author: Gábor Scheiring

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2020-08-26

Total Pages: 367

ISBN-13: 3030487520

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This book is the product of three years of empirical research, four years in politics, and a lifetime in a country experiencing three different regimes. Transcending disciplinary boundaries, it provides a fresh answer to a simple yet profound question: why has liberal democracy retreated? Scheiring argues that Hungary’s new hybrid authoritarian regime emerged as a political response to the tensions of globalisation. He demonstrates how Viktor Orbán’s Fidesz exploited the rising nationalism among the working-class casualties of deindustrialisation and the national bourgeoisie to consolidate illiberal hegemony. As the world faces a new wave of autocratisation, Hungary’s lessons become relevant across the globe, and this book represents a significant contribution to understanding challenges to democracy. This work will be useful to students and researchers across political sociology, political science, economics and social anthropology, as well democracy advocates.

Hungary
Hungary

Author: Roger A. Clarke

Publisher: St James Press

Published: 1989

Total Pages: 172

ISBN-13:

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Money, Incentives and Efficiency in the Hungarian Economic Reform
Money, Incentives and Efficiency in the Hungarian Economic Reform

Author: Joseph C. Brada

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-07-04

Total Pages: 148

ISBN-13: 1315491672

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The essays in this volume document the serious shortcomings of the Hungarian economic reform, which in two decades has brought deteriorating economic performance, declining real wages, a fiscal deficit and severe inflationary pressures. It has proved unexpectedly difficult to substitute a regulated market economy for a centrally planned one. The authors of these essays argue that the problems stem from the incompleteness of the reforms and their compromise character. Today, as the Hungarians prepare to implement more radical measures, constraining the Communist party and rolling back state ownership, they do so under economically difficult conditions.

Reforming the State
Reforming the State

Author: János Kornai

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2001-01-15

Total Pages: 310

ISBN-13: 9780521774888

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The essays in this volume, first published in 2001, examine fiscal policy-making and providing for social welfare in post-socialist countries.

Perestroika in the Countryside
Perestroika in the Countryside

Author: William Moskoff

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-07-04

Total Pages: 150

ISBN-13: 1315489120

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This book is a collection of seven papers originally given at the 1989 meetings of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies. The authors come from the fields of economics, history, and political science and are all specialists in the field of Soviet and East European agriculture. The first essay, by David Macey, assesses Gorbachev's agricultural reform in light of the experience of the Stolypin reforms at the beginning of the century. The essays by Jim Butterfield and Ed Cook examine the impediments to successful reform from the perspective of a political scientist and an economist. Karen Brooks and Don Van Atta concentrate their attention on the efforts to introduce lease contracting into agriculture. D.Gale Johnson's essay examines the economic effects of trade liberalization in agriculture. The final paper, by Michael Marrese, suggests that there are lessons for the Soviet Union to be learned from the Hungarian experience, namely, that the changes in agriculture must be comprehensive and that the party can win over popular support if its agricultural policies succeed.

The East European Economy in Context
The East European Economy in Context

Author: David Turnock

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2003-09-02

Total Pages: 492

ISBN-13: 1134884273

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Since 1989 the former communist countries of Eastern Europe have witnessed a profound and dramatic upheaval. The economic coherence of this region, formerly maintained through the adoption of the Soviet system of government, has fractured. In The East European Economy in Context: Communism and Transition, David Turnock examines the transition from communist to free-market economies, both within and between the states of Eastern Europe. As well as containing an informative survey of the impact of communism, The East European Economy in Context provides * Political profiles of individual countries * A clear study of the contrasts between northern and balkan groups * Summaries of regional variations in the transition process * An exploration of the new state structures and resources * Discussion of political stability, inter-ethnic tensions and progress in economic change