Title:Associating, mobilizing, politicizing : local developmental agency from without
Author(s):BRUSZT, Laszlo; VEDRES, BalazsDate:2013Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Decades of increase in external aid programs sparked a wide range of criticisms pointing to misaligned interests, lack of accountability, and the reproduction of developmental traps. The success of development from without ...
Title:Civil Society, Institutional Change and the Politics of Reform: The great transition
Author(s):BRUSZT, Laszlo; CAMPOS, Nauro F.; FIDRMUC, Jan; ROLAND, GérardDate:2012Type of Publication:Contribution to bookAbstract:This chapter examines the relationship between differences in civil society development under communism and the political, economic and institutional change and transformation after 1989. We collected a unique dataset on ...
Title:The State of the Market: The Market Reform Debate and Post-Communist Diversity
Author(s):BRUSZT, LaszloDate:2012Type of Publication:Contribution to bookAbstract:This chapter revisits three interrelated claims made in Problems of Democratic Transition and Consolidation, the magnum opus of Juan J. Linz and Alfred Stepan. These claims were about the links between market reforms, state ...
Title:The Negotiated Revolution in Hungary
Author(s):BRUSZT, LaszloDate:2012Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:The paper is an updated version of a piece that I wrote about the Hungarian regime change of 1989 with some cautious parallels to the North African regime changes. It analyses the strategies of the opponents and the ...
Title:Political Regime Types and Varieties of Post-Socialist Capitalism in the Era of Globalization
Author(s):BRUSZT, LaszloDate:2012Type of Publication:Contribution to bookAbstract:For the former state socialist countries 1989 was the year of the starting of the simultaneous transformation of their political regimes and economic systems. This entailed attempts at remaking simultaneously the political ...
Title:Transnacionalización, integración social y diversidades de capitalismo en el este y en el sur
Author(s):BRUSZT, Laszlo; GRESKOVITS, BelaDate:2011Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:El presente artículo analiza los modos de integración internacional, los perfiles de inserción global, la presencia o ausencia de capacidades transformativas de los Estados y la cohesión social como dimensiones que interactúan ...
Title:The Transnationalization of Economies, States, and Civil Societies. New Challenges for Governance in Europe
Author(s):BRUSZT, Laszlo; HOLZHACKER, RonaldDate:2009Type of Publication:BookAbstract:Two decades after the fall of the Berlin Wall, we are witnessing an ever quickening dissolution of the boundaries between internal and external actors and the critical factors for understanding domestic institutional change. ...
Title:Transnationalization, Social Integration, and Capitalist Diversity in the East and the South
Author(s):BRUSZT, Laszlo; GRESKOVITS, BelaDate:2009Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This article analyzes the deep and shallow modes of international integration, semicore, semiperipheral, and peripheral profiles of global insertion, and the presence and absence of transformative state capacity and social ...
Title:The Politics of Civic Combinations
Author(s):BRUSZT, Laszlo; VEDRES, BalazsDate:2008Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:In this article, we explore the ways in which partnerships with the state within state-led developmental programs might effect the autonomy of civic organizations (COs) and their readiness to enter in political action. To ...
Title:Transnational Integration Regimes as Development Programs
Author(s):BRUSZT, Laszlo; MCDERMOTT, Gerald A.Date:2008Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:Center for European Studies Central and Eastern Europe Working Paper SeriesAbstract:In drawing on recent advances in international and comparative political economy, this paper argues that diverging paths of institutional development among emerging market democracies are driven by the Transnational ...
