Bulletin n. 0/2004 | ||
December 2004 | ||
I. Pálné Kovács Ilona, C. J. Paraskevopoulos, Gy. Horváth |
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Institutional 'legacies' and the shaping of regional governance in Hungary | ||
in Regional and Federal Studies , Volume 14, Number 3 / Autumn , 2004 , 430-460 | ||
This article focuses on the regionalization process in Hungary in light of the increasing Europeanization of regional policy. Its underlying assumption is that, although the Europeanization process plays a crucial role in the transformation of the domestic governance structures, the adaptation process is significantly dependent on the learning capacity of the pre-existing institutional infrastructure. In that respect it evaluates the learning capacity of the domestic regional policy network by concentrating on the structure of the state and the centre-periphery relations, the presence of veto points and resistance to change, the level of social capital and cooperative culture, and the role of non-state actors - namely the private sector, experts and NGOs - in the policy process. | ||