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Local Responses to the Structural Changes of National Development Policyin Hungarian Rural Regions

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  • Perger Eva

    (Great Plain Research Department, Institute for Regional Studies Centre for Economic and Regional Studies, Hungarian Academy of Science, Hungary)

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The paper is based on the preliminary results of an ongoing research programme supported by the Hungarian Scientific Research Fund. The objective of the research is to find out how local actors react to the changing development policy context, how it shapes the local practices of local agents, and how such interactions influence local society and the development of rural micro-regions. The main pillars of the study are subject-oriented case-studies in two rural microregions. The pilot regions are very similar in terms of geographical location, natural resources, population, territory, settlement structure and economicsocial status, yet they have followed a very different development track, mainly due to the different local reactions to the changing state development policy. Our research demonstrates that the key factor of local success is multi-level (settlement, micro-region) cooperation between various (public, private and civil) local stakeholders. The crucial demand for a main facilitator of local cooperation could be satisfied by the local government, provided that it is able to adapt to the frequent changes leading to the emergence of new social networks. No evidence is found to indicate the existence of a ‘project class’ within the local rural societies assuming an intermediary role between decision makers and beneficiaries. The traditional structures of power (based on party- and economic hierarchy) seem to survive. Although project-based implementation has become predominant in development policy, the main arena of the ‘struggle’ to obtain development resources is still the political one.

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  • Perger Eva, 2016. "Local Responses to the Structural Changes of National Development Policyin Hungarian Rural Regions," Eastern European Countryside, Sciendo, vol. 22(1), pages 69-83, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:vrs:eaeuco:v:22:y:2016:i:1:p:69-83:n:4
    DOI: 10.1515/eec-2016-0004
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    1. Augustyn, Anna & Nemes, Gusztav, 2014. "Catching up with the West? Europeanising rural policies in Hungary and Poland," 142nd Seminar, May 29-30, 2014, Budapest, Hungary 168921, European Association of Agricultural Economists.
    2. Augustyn, Anna & Nemes, Gusztáv, 2014. "Catching up with the West? Europeanisation of policies in Hungary and Poland," Studies in Agricultural Economics, Research Institute for Agricultural Economics, vol. 116(3), pages 1-8, December.
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