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Europeanization through Privatization and Pluralization in Hungary

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  • Ågh, Åttila

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Analytically, privatization and pluralization may be treated as separate economic and political phenomena, but in the actual conditions of a post-Communist society they are integrally related to the development of a middle-class society that was absent due to ‘deprivatization’ in a one-party state. The creation of a society of plural interests and private enterprise represents a shift from Sovietization to Europeanization. However, the process is extremely difficult, for there are many paradoxes in the logic of privatization. In addition, issues of ownership – past as well as future – are major political battlefields. Political strategies of privatization include a grand coalition; a new state-party; Latin-Americanization; creating a broad entrepreneurial class and/or a European working class; and a wide coalition. These complexities are examined with particular reference to the experience of contemporary Hungary.

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  • Ågh, Åttila, 1993. "Europeanization through Privatization and Pluralization in Hungary," Journal of Public Policy, Cambridge University Press, vol. 13(1), pages 1-35, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:cup:jnlpup:v:13:y:1993:i:01:p:1-35_00
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    1. Jorge F. Pérez-López, 1999. "Corruption and the Cuban Transition," Annual Proceedings, The Association for the Study of the Cuban Economy, vol. 9.

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