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Europeanization through Privatization and Pluralization in Hungary

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 November 2008

Åttila Ågh
Åttila Ågh
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Political Science, Budapest University of Economics
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Abstract

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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Journal of Public Policy , Volume 13 , Issue 1 , January 1993 , pp. 1 - 35
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1993

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