CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2011
| Author | Marusik, Jozef |
|---|---|
| Title | Laggardness as a forming power of Second Generation Reforms in Central Europe- Comparative study of Slovakia and Hungary |
| Summary | My research question obliged me to find the factors causing unlike attitudes of external and internal actors towards reform processes aiming on the attraction of foreign capital in Slovakia and Hungary. In this respect I analyze the impact of the factors such political system, economic leverage, unemployment and EU conditionality on the main actors of the Second Generation Reform processes. I have identified political parties and labor as the main internal actors and transnational corporations as the main external actor. As a result I found out that political systems had emerged the reform cycles in Slovakia and the anti-reform cycles in Hungary. My research additionally shows that transnational corporations are able to exercise the leverage on the state government only if there are few or no alternatives to foreign corporations. Finally, the low institutionalization of industrial relation caused a smooth launch and consolidation of the reforms in Slovakia. The opposite applies in Hungary.I also found the causal explanations for the relationship between high unemployment and acceptance of reforms by labor. |
| Supervisor | Duman,Anil |
| Department | Political Science MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2011/marusik_jozef.pdf |
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