Abstract (may include machine translation)
The paper confronts the major theoretical approaches to the transformations taking place in Eastern Europe with citizens’ views and the results of empirical surveys. The first part outlines the theoretical approaches which attribute a decisive role to the contradictory demands – and the ensuing tension – of the transformation of the economic system and those of democratic consolidation in shaping the East European developments. It presents the concepts emphasizing the deterministic role of the environmental (economic, social, cultural) factors of ‘politicking’, and also the purely ‘politological’ approach which tries to understand the dilemmas of the new systems exclusively by the characteristics of the political institutions and agents. The second part attempts to clarify the validity of the concepts mentioned in Hungary, on the basis of the representative survey conducted by questionnaire in November 1990 by the authors. Finally, some conclusions are drawn and some new questions are put, to be answered by further research.
Translated title of the contribution | The great transformation |
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Original language | English |
Pages (from-to) | 75-99 |
Number of pages | 25 |
Journal | Politikatudományi Szemle |
Volume | 1 |
Issue number | 1 |
State | Published - 1992 |