Prewar Corporatism In Postwar Europe?
Why did Hungary, a country that shared much of the spiritual and institutional heritage of western Europe, fail to replicate the social and political experiences of the latter within the nineteenth and early twenties centuries? The answer, the writer argues, lies not with cultural idiosyncracies or historic accident, but with the interior dynamics of the modern world system that stimulated aspirations not easily realizable within the confines of backward economics in peripheral nationwide states. The author develops his theme by inspecting a century of Hungarian financial, social, and political history. Pointing to vital analogies between the Hungarian previous and the plight of the nations of the Third World today, this work should be of curiosity not only to the specialist on East European politics, but additionally to students of development, dependency, and center-periphery relations in the modern world. In a extra basic sense, ‘intermediate organizations’, and thus ‘corporatist’ social structures, … Read More