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Socialist Authority : The Hungarian Experience by Peter A. Toma (1988, Hardcover)

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Number of Pages: 315. Weight: 1.37 lbs. Publication Date: 1988-02-22. Publisher: Praeger.

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Product Identifiers

PublisherBloomsbury Publishing USA

ISBN-100275926028

ISBN-139780275926021

eBay Product ID (ePID)84112

Product Key Features

Number of Pages318 Pages

Publication NameSocialist Authority : the Hungarian Experience

LanguageEnglish

SubjectPolitical Ideologies / Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism, World / European, General

Publication Year1988

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaPolitical Science, Education

AuthorPeter A. Toma

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height0.8 in

Item Weight22 Oz

Item Length9.2 in

Item Width6.1 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceCollege Audience

LCCN87-011775

Dewey Edition19

Number of Volumes1 vol.

Dewey Decimal306/.09439

Table Of ContentIntroduction The Vs. Imaginary Social Contract Socialist Democracy and Socialist Authority The Rulers and the Ruled Who Gets What for What? Finding Loopholes in the Bureaucratic Red Tape It's Who You Know, Not What You Know The Hedonism of Authority From Traditionlism to Nihilism: The Transformation of the Family and Religion as Institutions Mass Media and Quality of Life New Society With Old Traditions The Hungarian Social Character Bibliography Index

SynopsisCareful followers of reform movements within Communist bloc countries will profit from this new work by a specialist on Hungarian politics. Twenty years after introduction of the New Economic Mechanism (NEM), both the Hungarian elite and the mass population have had mixed experiences with the process of reform. From the vantage point of the elite, in the 1980s reform has moved beyond the economic realm into the political. Passage of the new Electoral Law of 1983 resulted in the transfer of more power to locally elected governmental bodies and also produced contested elections for legislative seats. Choice Toma addresses the question: What are the factors and variables that permit one socialist system to exercise more economic, political, and social freedom than another? He studies authority in contemporary Hungarian society with an emphasis on communist practices versus ideological absolutes. He tests some generally accepted views of the socialist system in Hungary and shows how the Hungarians have attempted to resolve the question of how to combine socialist economic planning with social justice. Through a series of case studies, he differentiates between the theory and the practice of socialist authority, mainly through an analysis of how Hungarians have learned to circumvent restrictions imposed by the regime.

LC Classification NumberHN420