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This volume brings into light for the first time the important contribution local initiatives make to solving complex social economic problems in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and the Slovak Republic.It provides policymakers and practitioners from transition economies and OECD countries with a comprehensive understanding of the "local initiative" concept in the context of transition economies.The report identifies policy shortcomings in the four countries and recommends actions to stimulate local entrepreneurship and job creation. ... Read more

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General Books publication date: 2009Original publication date: 1910Original Publisher: The University pressSubjects: HungaryHistory / Europe / EasternHistory / CivilizationHistory / Europe / Austria ... Read more

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NEW GOVERNMENTS OF CENTRAL EUROPF BY MALBONE W. GRAJIAM, JR., PH. D. ADJUNCT PROFESSOR OF GOVERNMENT, UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS Assisted by ROBERT C. BINKLEY, M. A., REFERENCE LIBRARIAN HOOVER WAR LIBRARY, STANFORD UNIVERSITY LONDON SIR ISAAC PITMAN SONS, LTD. PARKER STREET, KINGSWAV, W. C. a. 1924 PRINTED IN tLNlTED STATES OF AMERICA. PEEPACB THIS book is the product of necessity. It is designed to fill a very obvious lacuna in the literature on comparative govern ment. It is, in part, the product of a course of lectures which the author gave at the University of Missouri in 1922, in part, the result of research in the Hoover War Library at Stanford University. It has been thought necessary to treat the new states in Eu rope, with their new governments, new policies, new institutions, in accordance with the geographjpStt area which they occupy, and in relation to the empires of which they are the successors. Obviously, a full treatment of the new governments involves a discussion of the Succession States of the German, Austro-Gungarian, Russian and Ottoman Empires. In this volume, however, only the successors of the first two ti Ve been dealt with. The Baltic States, Poland, the Ukraine, and the Caucasus demand a separate treatment, one wholly inseparable from a study of the territorial policies of the Russian Soviet Govern ment. The revival of a nationalist Turkey, its rehabilitation in the eyes of the world, its attempts to formulate policies and devise institutions compatible with the religious and political aspirations of Moslem peoples likewise furnish an entirely new and separate development. For these reasons it has been thought advisable to deal with the governments of Central Europe en bloc. The method of approach adopted embraces an understanding of the preexisting scheme of government and a study of the progressive breakdown of empire and the realization of na tionality. Only the historical background deemed necessary to an understanding of the actual forces at work in the various states has been included. The constitutional organization of the German and Austro-Hungarian Empires has therefore been sketched with the object of outlining the various political ten dencies and forces at work rather than in any endeavor to ac vi PREFACE quaint the student or reader with the more intimate details of now extinct political organizations. With this background complete, the study of the actual processes of revolution and reorganization has been attempted. No finality can be claimed for any governmental structure it is, however, necessary to understand the structure as it now exists, and more particularly, to grasp the forces, military, economic, racial, psychological, that are at work attempting to modify, amend, adapt, restore, the constitutional mechanism. These the author has attempted to evaluate and interpret. The sources utilized in the preparation of this work have been many, and exceedingly varied. Whenever possible, the primary sources have been those officially sponsored by one government or another. Particularly is the author indebted to the unrivaled facilities afforded by the Hoover War Library at Stanford Uni versity. The chief sources for the political history of the vari ous countries covered have been the British Enemy Press Sup plement to the Daily Review of the Foreign Press for the period ending August 31, 1919, the French Bulletin Periodique de la Presse Allemande and the similar bulletins dealing with the po litical developments in Austria-Hungary and in Austria and Hungary following the breakup of the Dual Monarchy. For Czechoslovakia, the Gazette de Prague, a semi-official publica tion, has been freely consulted for the period 1919-1922, as well as the files of the Prager TagUatt for the latter part of 1918... ... Read more

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While charting the successes, shortcomings, and continuing challenges faced by Hungary in its quest to join the NATO Alliance, Jeffrey Simon presents a comprehensive and original study of civil-military relations in Hungary and simultaneously provides a conceptual framework of civil-military relations that draws upon the lessons of post-communist transition in the entire Central and East European region. ... Read more

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A good research investment
Overall the book is quite good... If you want to focus on the defense reform process as it was particular to Hungary and then draw from these facts (in correlation with other research) the difficulties still faced by Hungary today in meeting its NATO and defense expenditure requirements, then this is a good buy.The last chapter is forward looking and provides an interesting view on future outlook, which since its publication (2003), seems quite close to what has actually transpired over the last 3 years.Hence the book continues to be timely.

The book is not that long and basically an expanded and detailed version of the chapter on Hungary in his other book on Defense Reform "Central European Civil-military Relations And Nato Expansion" which covers the first Central European countries to join NATO in the post-Cold War period (Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland and Hungary).

He does spend a disproportionate amount of time focusing on the 1999 meningitis outbreak in the Hungarian military, which was much more contained and had much less of an impact then he leads the reader to believe (or that media sources would lead one to believe).

The book provides info on defense expenditures and modifications in the military structure, and does a good job of covering all the political interplay between ministers and ministries throughout the post-Cold War defense reform process and covers the multiple elections and political decisions and parties affecting defense reform process in various ways.

It is a post 9/11 book and includes sections on the impact of 9/11 and terrorism in general on the defense reform process and subsequent/linked political decisions.

The sources are varied and well balanced, and include both english and hungarian books/documents, but the book relies predominantly on open source media, which doesn't really affect the overall strength of the book. ... Read more

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First published in 1904 and twice reprinted, this book strongly influenced nationalist debate between 1904 and 1921. Its central proposal - the withdrawal of Irish elected representatives from Westminster - was inherited from the Hungarian Franz Deak's policy of non co-operation with the imperial parliament in Vienna in the 1860s. The idea of the dual monarchy, adopted by Austria and Hungary in 1867 in which each recognised the Austrian Emperor but had separate parliaments, continued to be advocated by a few Irish politicians as late as the 1920s. Griffith also expounds here his protectionist economic views which influenced Irish government policy for several decades. ... Read more

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Publisher: The Amerikai magyar népszavaPublication date: 1943Subjects: World War, 1939-1945HungaryNotes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes.When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there. ... Read more

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Imre Nagy, Martyr of the Nation is a study of the ways in which the memory of the martyred Prime Minister and the story of the 1956 Revolution influenced political socialization in Hungary. The study begins with Nagy's 1989 funeral and the role memorialization played in the politics of transition, continuing with a review of the important personages and events that informed Nagy's life and afterlife, and concludes in the tumultuous politics following the establishment of the Republic in 1989. ... Read more

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This report assesses the current status of Hungarys innovation system and policies, and identifies where and how the government should focus its efforts to improve the country's innovation capabilities. The report finds that the level of innovation activity and performance in Hungary has remained relatively low by international standards. This is attributable to both lagging innovation capabilities in the business sector and an insufficient contribution of public research organisations to the innovation system. There is a need for more stable governance of the innovation system and a more evidence-based approach to policy making in the area of science, technology and innovation policy.

Table of Content :

Overall Assessment and Recommendations
Evaluation d'ensemble et recommandations
Chapter 1. Economic Performance and Framework Conditions for Innovation
-Econoimc Performance and Level of Innovative Activity
-International Trade and Foreign Direct Investment
-Structural Change
-The Role of Innovation in Economic Development
-Framework Conditions for Innovation
-Performance in Science, Technology and Innovation in International Comparison
Chapter 2. Innovation Actors in Hungary
-The Business Sector
-Public Research Organisations
-Higher Education Institutions
-Interactions and Linkages
-Human Resources for S&T and Innovation
-ICT in the Hungarian Society
Chapter 3. The Role of Government
-The Evolution of Hungary's Science, Technology and Innovation Policy
-Governance and Policy Mix
-Funding of Innovation
-Strategic Tasks of Innovation Policy: A Functional Assessment
Abbreviations and Acronyms
References
Acknowledgements

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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. Analysis of these transformational variants yields important insights into systemic change, marketization, and democratization. This book demonstrates how these changes were possible in authoritarian regimes as, over time, state and society became mutually vulnerable, neither fully able to dictate the terms of engagement. For Poland this meant principled confrontation; for Hungary, innovative accommodation. ... Read more

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This book investigates one of the oldest paradoxes in political science: why do mass political loyalties persist even amid prolonged social upheaval and disruptive economic development.Drawing on extensive archival research and an original database of election results, this book explores the paradox of political persistence by examining Hungary's often tortuous path from pre- to post-communism. Wittenberg reframes the theoretical debate, and then demonstrates how despite the many depredations of communism, the Roman Catholic and Calvinist Churches transmitted loyalties to parties of the Right. Contrary to conventional wisdom, Church resistance occurred not from above, but from below. Hemmed in and harassed by communist party cadres, parish priests and pastors employed a variety of ingenious tactics to ensure the continued survival of local church institutions. These institutions insulated their adherents from pressures to assimilate into the surrounding socialist milieu. Ultimately this led to political continuity between pre- and post-communism. ... Read more

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A concise account of the breakdown of communist rule in Poland, Hungary and Czechoslovakia and a comparative analysis of their transition to pluralist democratic politics and market economies. A major theme is the linkage of politics and economics: the book shows how both the failure of economic reforms in Poland and Hungary, and the resistance to economic reform contributed to undermining the communist monopoly of power, and how the new politics of multi-party pluralism of the post-communist era interact with the unprecedented task of radical economic transformation. An appendix summarizes the three countries' electoral systems. ... Read more