A Society Transformed: Hungary in Time-Space Perspective

by Andorka, Rudolf; Kolosi, Tamas; Rose, Richard; Vukovich, Gyorgy

• ISBN13: 9789639116498
• ISBN10: 9639116491
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-07-01
• Publisher: Central European Univ Pr

Summary

Covers the long-term social, economic and political changes in Hungary from 1945 to 1998.

Table of Contents

List of tables	vii	(4)
List of figures	xi	(1)
List of contributors	xii	(1)
Acknowledgments	xiii
Introduction: Scaling change in Hungary	1	(20)
Tamas Kolosi
Richard Rose
1 Long-term modernization of Hungarian society	21	(29)
Rudolf Andorka
Istvan Harcsa
2 Population: birth, marriage, and death	50	(11)
Gyorgy Vukovich
3 Denomination and religious practice	61	(12)
Miklos Tomka
Istvan Harcsa
4 The scope of the state and private sectors	73	(12)
Tamas Kolosi
Endre Sik
5 The post-Communist economic elite	85	(12)
Gyorgy Lengyel
6 The middle strata in transformation	97	(16)
Zoltan Fabian
7 Consciousness of inequality	113	(15)
Peter Robert
8 Welfare programmes and the alleviation of poverty	128	(19)
Istvan Gyorgy Toth
9 Dissatisfaction and alienation	147	(8)
Rudolf Andorka
10 Parties and social divisions: a common East-Central European pattern?	155	(24)
Gabor Toka
11 The long and the short of transformation in Central Europe	179	(26)
Richard Rose
Index	205