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Decentralization and Democracy in Eastern Europe: A Sceptical Approach
In: Environment and planning. C, Government and policy, Band 15, Heft 2, S. 129-142
ISSN: 1472-3425
The author focuses on the link between local government decentralization and democracy in Eastern Europe. It is shown that decentralization is a multidimensional concept and that actual local government systems can be positioned differently on each dimension (functions, control, and finance) depending on the implicit model of local government. Formal and substantive definitions of democracy are distinguished and some conventional measures examined; it is concluded that decentralization and democracy do not necessarily go together. The degree of decentralization and implicit models of postsocialist local government in Eastern Europe are then outlined, with a focus on the contrast between Budapest and Moscow. The development of social movements in the two capitals is taken as an index of substantive democracy and is shown to be influenced not only by the extent of decentralization but also by other features of the local political context. This illustrates the earlier argument that the relation between decentralization and democracy is an empirically variable one rather than a necessary one.
Housing privatization and housing protest in the transition from state socialism: a comparative study of Budapest and Moscow
In: International journal of urban and regional research: IJURR, Band 18, Heft 3, S. 433-450
ISSN: 0309-1317
Collective Action and Local Democracy: The Urban Movements of Montreal
In: International journal of urban and regional research: IJURR, Band 17, Heft 2, S. 296-297
ISSN: 0309-1317
Is the emperor naked? A debate on the adequacy of sociological theory in urban and regional research
In: International journal of urban and regional research, Band 15, Heft 1, S. 107-107
ISSN: 1468-2427
The Decline of Urban Politics: Political Theory and the Crisis of the Local State
In: International journal of urban and regional research: IJURR, Band 14, Heft 2, S. 337-339
ISSN: 0309-1317
Free Enterprise City: Houston in Political Economic Perspective.Joe R. Feagin
In: The American journal of sociology, Band 95, Heft 3, S. 837-839
ISSN: 1537-5390
Book Reviews
In: Sociology: the journal of the British Sociological Association, Band 23, Heft 1, S. 137-140
ISSN: 1469-8684
Employers, Labour Markets, and Redistribution Under State Socialism: An Interpretation of Housing Policy in Hungary 1960-1983
In: Sociology: the journal of the British Sociological Association, Band 22, Heft 2, S. 193-214
ISSN: 1469-8684
This paper seeks to explain the evolution of housing policy in Hungary in order to throw light on the character of redistribution under state socialism, and on the conditions under which employers intervene in the housing sphere. Changes in housing policy are explained by a model which emphasizes developments in the Hungarian economy, such as the rise of the second economy, changes in labour market competition, and the changing power of large firms, and their consequential effects on employer motivation and capacity to intervene in housing to recruit, motivate and retain their labour force. Whereas for Szelényi state socialist redistribution is inherently regressive, the model advanced here both draws attention to variations in the regressiveness/progressiveness of housing policy and offers an explanation of these changes in terms of the changing balance of forces acting on the state, and in particular the importance of large employers and the opportunities open for them to use housing to resolve their labour problems. The greater role of employers in the housing sphere in Hungary is linked to the `resource-constrained' nature of state socialist economies and to the interpenetration of economic and political spheres, and is hence argued to be a structural feature of state socialism.
Finances and Local Power: The German Experience
In: International journal of urban and regional research: IJURR, Band 12, Heft 4, S. 667-670
ISSN: 0309-1317
Introduction: land and housing development in Middle Eastern and North African cities
In: International journal of urban and regional research: IJURR, Band 12, Heft 1988
ISSN: 0309-1317
Central and Local Government Relations: A Comparative Analysis of West European Unitary States
In: International journal of urban and regional research: IJURR, Band 12, Heft 4, S. 667-670
ISSN: 0309-1317
Book Reviews
In: Sociology: the journal of the British Sociological Association, Band 21, Heft 1, S. 151-153
ISSN: 1469-8684
Urban Political Theory and the Management of Fiscal Stress
In: International journal of urban and regional research: IJURR, Band 11, Heft 2, S. 286-290
ISSN: 0309-1317
The Politics of Local Expenditure
In: International journal of urban and regional research: IJURR, Band 11, Heft 2, S. 286-290
ISSN: 0309-1317