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Local-level influences on environmental policy implementation in Eastern Europe: a theoretical framework and a Hungarian case study

Pickvance, Chris (2000) Local-level influences on environmental policy implementation in Eastern Europe: a theoretical framework and a Hungarian case study. Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy, 18 (4). pp. 469-485. ISSN 0263-774X. (doi:10.1068/c9811j) (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:16496)

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Abstract

The author aims to develop a framework to explain local-level implementation of post-socialist environmental policies, and provides some case study evidence from Hungary. He starts by examining the evidence on environmental policy implementation in advanced capitalist North America and Western Europe as an indication of the possibilities compatible with certain forms of capitalism, and on the patterns under state socialism as a possible source of 'legacy' effects. A number of similarities are shown to exist despite the very different socioeconomic systems involved. He goes on to outline a set of hypotheses concerning the interrelation between local level actors-enterprises, local governments, branches of national ministries, and the public (organised and unorganised)-and the local power structures thus created, as the immediate determinants of local-level environmental policy in postsocialist conditions. Recent studies on this subject are summarised, and the author concludes by examining evidence from a case study of Dunaujvaros, a 'steel town' in Hungary. Although the emphasis is on the openness of the possibilities and forces which are likely to shape the actual pattern of implementation, it is suggested that the patterns likely to be found in postsocialist Eastern Europe may not be dissimilar from those in advanced capitalist conditions because of the similarity between legacy effects of the old system and emergent effects of the new system.

Item Type: Article
DOI/Identification number: 10.1068/c9811j
Subjects: H Social Sciences
Divisions: Divisions > Division for the Study of Law, Society and Social Justice > School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research
Depositing User: A. Xie
Date Deposited: 07 Aug 2009 16:39 UTC
Last Modified: 05 Nov 2024 09:51 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/16496 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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Pickvance, Chris.

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