TY - UNPB
T1 - From the Socialist Core to the Capitalist Periphery: Hungary in Comparative Perspective
AU - Greskovits, Béla
PY - 1999
Y1 - 1999
N2 - Most comparative studies of public policies for competitiveness focus on the links among public agencies and industrial sectors. This paper argues that the professions-c-or knowledge-bearing elites-that animate these organizational links are equally significant. For public policies to promote technological advance, the visions and self-images of knowledge-bearing elites are particularly important. By examining administrative and technical elites in France and Germany in the 1980s, the paper identifies characteristics that enable these elites to implement policy in some cases, but not in others. France's "state-created" elites were well-positioned to initiate and implement large technology projects, such as digitizing the telecommunications network. Germany's state-recognized elites were, by contrast, better positioned to facilitate framework oriented programs that aimed at the diffusion of new technologies throughout industry. The linkages among administrative and technical elites also explain why French policymakers had difficulty adapting policy to changing circumstances over time while German policymakers managed in many cases to learn more from previous policy experiences and to adapt subsequent initiatives accordingly.
AB - Most comparative studies of public policies for competitiveness focus on the links among public agencies and industrial sectors. This paper argues that the professions-c-or knowledge-bearing elites-that animate these organizational links are equally significant. For public policies to promote technological advance, the visions and self-images of knowledge-bearing elites are particularly important. By examining administrative and technical elites in France and Germany in the 1980s, the paper identifies characteristics that enable these elites to implement policy in some cases, but not in others. France's "state-created" elites were well-positioned to initiate and implement large technology projects, such as digitizing the telecommunications network. Germany's state-recognized elites were, by contrast, better positioned to facilitate framework oriented programs that aimed at the diffusion of new technologies throughout industry. The linkages among administrative and technical elites also explain why French policymakers had difficulty adapting policy to changing circumstances over time while German policymakers managed in many cases to learn more from previous policy experiences and to adapt subsequent initiatives accordingly.
UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/2709489
M3 - Working paper
T3 - Program on Central & Eastern Europe ; 49.
SP - 1
EP - 49
BT - From the Socialist Core to the Capitalist Periphery: Hungary in Comparative Perspective
PB - Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies (CES)
CY - Cambridge, Massachusetts
ER -