Melanie Tatur (Hrsg.)

The Making of Regions in Post-Socialist Europe ¿ the Impact of Culture, Economic Structure and Institutions

Case Studies from Poland, Hungary, Romania and Ukraine Volume I
Herausgegeben:Tatur, Melanie

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Produktbeschreibung

1 Research Idea: History and Regional Diversity Post-socialist societies in Europe can be assigned to three "historical regions" (Sziicz 1990) corresponding to their path of historical development. (1) The "East" was shaped by the patrimonial Muscovite state (Pipes 1977) and an estate agriculture with archaic structures at its base (Shanin 1985). The "westernisation" of Russia that began with Peter I exposed the country to western knowledge and education. However, the modernisation of state and society remained limited. The "rationalisation" of the state (Lotman 1997) systematised the administrative structure but did not change the core rules of power, that is to say autocracy and patrimonial bureaucracy. At the same time "modernising" reforms built the state on the basis of feudal eco nomic relations. It thus blocked the expansion of both universalistic control and market mechanisms. The commodification of production and of labour th was launched as late as the last third of the19 century. It was stopped by the socialist revolution. The communist elites made use of western technology and science, as well as the institutional and cultural resources of traditional Russia, in order to stabilise their rule and to industrialise the country. The violent breaks of War Communism and Stalinist mobilisation dismantled the traditional institutions of the state, the nobility, the intelligentsia, and peasant society.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 618/03813, 978-3-8100-3813-5
• Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2004
• Seitenzahl: 348
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. April 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 210mm x 148mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 448g
• ISBN-13: 9783810038135
• ISBN-10: 381003813X
• Artikelnr.: 11381664

Autorenporträt

Prof. Dr. Melanie Tatur, Fachbereich Gesellschaftswissenschaften, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main.

Inhaltsangabe

Content.- Introduction: Conceptualising the Analysis of "Making Regions" in Post-socialist Europe.- 1 Research Idea: History and Regional Diversity.- 2 Transformation, Modernisation, and Path Dependent Change - the Theoretical Context (1).- 3 Path Dependence and Macro-political Constraints: Actors, Institutions, Cultural Resources - Approaches to Change and Continuity in Change.- 4 The "Region" from the Perspective of the Western Debate - the Theoretical Context (II).- 5 Actors, Institutional Arrangements, Networks and Discourse - Approaching "Making Regions" in the Context of Transformation.- 6 Research Design and Approach to the Field.- Transformation Regimes and Legal Frameworks for Local and Regional Development Policy in Poland and Hungary.- 1 Transformation Regimes in Poland and Hungary: Legacies, Actors, Strategies (Melanie Tatur).- 2 Building the Legal Framework for Local and Regional Development Policy in Poland (Andrzej Bukowski).- 3 Building the Legal Framework for Local and Regional Development Policy in Hungary (Melanie Tatur).- Malopolska: Making Tradition Work.- 1 Introduction.- 2 History: Reference Points of Regional Identity Discourse.- 3 Malopolska Today: Socio-economic Profile.- 4 History and Interests: Defining Regional Identity.- 5 Actors and Institutional Arrangements in Regional Development Policy.- 6 Strategies in Regional Development Policy.- 7. Conclusion.- Hajdú-Bihar Case Study: Corporatist "Partnership" or Elitist Clientelism?.- 1 Central Questions.- 2 History: Identity and Institutions.- 3 Economy and Space.- 4 Regional Actors, Strategies, Arrangements.- 5 Preemptive Institution-building and Grounded Institutionalisation: Hajdú-Bihar and the Polish Cases Compared.- Sector Versus Region, Homogeneity VersusDiversity. The Silesian-Dqbrowa Coal and Steel District in the Context of Linked Areas.- 1 Introduction.- 2 The Historical Background of Regional Identity Discourse.- 3 The Dinosaurs Are Dying out, But Where are the Mammals? The Economic-social Profile of the Katowice/Silesian Voivodship.- 4 The Contraction, Downsizing, and Weakening of Heavy Industry.- 5 Making a Region under Centralised, Fragmented and Politicised Governance from Warsaw (1989-1997).- 6 The Administrative Reform, Supra-regional Developments, and the Region-making (1998-2002).- 7 From Sector to Region. Real Change or Just Wishful Thinking.- 8 Conclusion.- References.