Based on six national representative surveys conducted in Hungary in between 1977 and 1997 using the Rokeach value test, this article tries to assess the extent to which the communist period left a 'stamp' on the preferences of basic human values.

The aim of this article is to develop a theoretical framework in order to explain the access of business interests to the European Commission, the Parliament and the Council of Ministers. The degree of access to these institutions is explained interms of a theory of demand and supply of access...

In recent years, the interest organisation of the European consumer electronics industry has experienced a dramatic centralisation and concentration. The main features of this development are the establishment of a mixed membership design which allows multinational enterprises to become direct...

In this paper, the author reflects on these questions: What would a world full of doubt be like? What are the moral and political implications of scepticism?.

While the strategies of political actors and institutions have been largely analyzed with reference to cases of democratic breakdown in inter-war Europe and other contexts, democratic survival has often been viewed as a consequence of socio-economic and cultural "preconditions". The analysis of...

This paper examines the imitation of models in the Polish transition. The reconstruction of an economic and political order in 1989 has widely been interpreted as the imitation of capitalism and democracy. This paper conceives of imitation as aiming to overcome the distance to a desired model....