No one would argue that the economy in the United States has been faltering in recent years; due in part to global factors, and even with stimulus plans offered by the Federal Government, there is increased burden on states to find forms of revenue. More and more, states must compete not only...

A tanulmánykötet három részre tagolódik. Az első rész két tanulmánya a korrupció elméleti-fogalmi kereteit tárgyalja. Ebben a fejezetben egyrészt a korrupció általunk használt fogalmának tisztázása mellett a megbízó-megbízott-kliens modell segítségével bemutatjuk a...

Ukraine belongs among those young countries where the beginnings of democratisation and nation-building approximately coincided. While the development of nation states in Central Europe was usually preceded by the development of nations, the biggest dilemma in the Ukraine is whether a...

After a short theoretical overview about the interplay between institutions and elites, the paper analyses the economic performance operationalized by the GDP and the quality of governance in Hungary in comparative perspective, considering two milestones, namely, the impact of the Great...

Undeniably, the economic crisis of 2008 was a critical juncture and a stress test for the EU and the Europeanness of its populations and elites. The crisis therefore offers an appropriate research setting for addressing two major research questions. In the following paragraphs, we first question...

In this paper I analyze to what extent the Eurozone crisis has affected the representativeness of parties’ positions with respect to the issue of European integration. Public opinion data and many analyses have provided evidence that, since 2010, public support for the European Union (EU) has...

The article takes an evolutionary approach to the idea of geoeconomics. It presents the latter as a continuation and upgrade of post-Cold War triumphalism, neoliberal economic policies, and the Jimmy Carter-era human rights agenda, formulated into a single policy under the Clinton...

A közép-kelet-európai országok rendszerváltása óta eltelt két évtized lehetővé és időszerűvé teszi a fejlődési pályák vizsgálatát a régió országaiban. A tanulmány a politikai gazdaságtan eszköztárának segítségével a rendszerváltás egy fontos tényezőjét, az...

More than 40 years ago, János Kornai introduced his famous supermarket metaphor. Socioeconomic systems cannot be constructed from purposely selected features, similar to customers in a supermarket, who can freely put into their shopping trolley whatever they like. Systems constitute an organic...