CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2007
| Author | Freedman, Jacob Michael |
|---|---|
| Title | From SLIP to Stagnation? The Political Economy of Russian and Hungarian Transformations Compared |
| Summary | The pace of policy reform in Russia and Hungary is examined from a political economy perspective. Has the pace of structural change in the economies of these two countries shifted over the course of transformation, and if so in what direction? Are certain political and economic conditions most suitable for the initiation and consolidation of reforms, and do these conditions evolve according to the type of reform being considered? Finally, can reform or failure to reform be explained by the same set of factors across both cases? Continuities across periods play an important role, with factors that frustrated progress in the first stage of reform – a weak state in the case of Russia and the avoidance of macroeconomic stabilization in Hungary – continuing to inhibit further restructuring, although with different implications for their ultimate developmental path. This implies that a single framework can be employed to analyze systemic change in both cases and that a basic set of conditions favorable to the adoption, consolidation and implementation of market reforms can be identified. |
| Supervisor | Csaba, Laszlo |
| Department | International Relations MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2007/freedman_jacob.pdf |
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