The political economy of state-society relations in Hungary and Poland
Subtitle: from communism to the European Union
By: Anna Seleny.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 294
Subjects: Social change -- Hungary.; Social change -- Poland.; Post-communism -- Hungary.; Post-communism -- Poland.; Hungary -- Economic policy -- 1968-1989.; Hungary -- Economic policy -- 1945-1968.; Poland -- Politics and government -- 1980-1989.; Poland -- Politics and government -- 1945-1980.
Description: "In The Political Economy of State-Society Relations in Hungary and Poland, Anna Seleny contends that the profound transformations that preceded the downfall of communism originated in Poland and Hungary but played out in strikingly different ways - Hungary led through economic reform, Poland through open political struggle."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : points of permeable contact; title: History and theory in practice; title: Precocious reformer : Hungary; title: Injustice: poland 1948; title: 1980; title: Poland : from solidarity to 1989; title: Hungary : property relations recast; title: Schumpeter by the Danube : from second economy to private sector; title: Action and reaction : institutional consequences of private sector; title: Expansion; title: Conclusion.