Achievements and conflicts of modernisation in Hungary

Gyorgyi BARTA; Miklós KRALIK; Eva PERGER

doi:10.18778/1231-1952.4.2.03

Authors

Gyorgyi BARTA Centre for Regional Studies of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Miklós KRALIK Centre for Regional Studies of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Eva PERGER Centre for Regional Studies of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18778/1231-1952.4.2.03

Keywords:

economic restructuring, economic growth and balance, privatisation, regional differentiation, regional policy

Abstract

Socio-economic modernisation of ex-Soviet-Block countries means both an adaptation to the Western democracies and an effort to decrease econornic differences. lt requires socio-econornic restructuring, growth and the maintenance of a delicate balance - all simultaneously. The 1989-1996 period of transition in Hungary is characterised by potentially connicting objectives, changing priorities, and necessarily concurrent processes becoming sequential. Democratisation has made power-sharing between the central and local governments an issue. Creating a market economy is expensive. The process touches on questions of national sovereignty, causing conflicts between foreign and domestic interests, end leads to social, economic and regional differentiation and polarisation.

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