Ivan Szelenyi
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 103634 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Ivan Szelenyi |
| PRENOMES | Ivan |
| SOBRENOME | Szelenyi |
| ASSINATURA | SZELENYI I |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Yale University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0520-2552 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 84 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 564 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 83 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1969 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 12 |
Social Policy Under State Socialism
Kornai on the affinity of systems
More than 40 years ago, János Kornai introduced his famous supermarket metaphor. Socioeconomic systems cannot be constructed from purposely selected features, similar to customers in a supermarket, who can freely put into their shopping trolley whatever they like. Systems constitute an organic whole. They contain good and bad features in fixed proportions. After 1990, Kornai and most Western commentators expected that as market integration and pr…
Karl Polanyi
A posztkommunista társadalmi formáció és osztályszerkezete
A Fordulat a Társadalomelméleti Kollégium marxista lapja. A lapnak ez a száma a Helyzet Műhely kollektívájának közös műve. A recenzió a szám első két fejezetével foglalkozik, melyek a magyar társadalom formációját és osztályszerkezetét tárgyalják. Kiemeli a szerzők elméleti koherenciáját s nagyra értékeli az osztályelemzés központba állítását. Kétségét fejezi ki ugyanakkor a szocializmus és kommunizmus közötti tipikusan szovjet marxista megkülönb…
China, Eastern Europe and Russia compared
After the collapse of the Berlin Wall it was conceivable that China would follow the path towards the cessation of communism, as it happened in the successor states of the USSR, Yugoslavia and the East European satellite states of the Soviet Union. But the Communist Party of China (CPC) managed to retain control and avoided the Russian and East European collapse, a full-fledged transition to capitalism and liberal democracy. For a while, China wa…
The Two Forms of Modern Capitalism
What is the relationship between liberalism, illiberalism and despotic forms of dictatorship - this is the central question of this paper. From the 1970's and especially after 1989-91 it appeared that the rise of global capitalism and liberal democracy was unstoppable. Since 2005 this trend seems to be reversed. The number of countries classified as 'non-free,' 'undemocratic' or 'illiberal' has been increasing. The bottom line of this paper is th…
Intellectuals and Domination in Post-Communist Societies
The intellectuals play the most fundamental role in the transformation of state socialist societies. The foundations of bureaucratic domination were eroded, and, with the decline of the old elite, the only viable candidates for membership in the new elites are intellectuals. The power of intellectuals may only be a transitory phenomenon—like their predecessors during the French Revolution, they may only lay the foundations of a new type of domina…
The Place of Rent-Seeking and Corruption in Varieties of Capitalism Models
Rent-Seekers, Profits, Wages and Inequality
In memoriam of Maria Márkus
Paternal domination and the mafia state under post-communism
Capitalism After Communism
The Politics of Trans Identities
Iván Szelényi reviews Rogers Brubaker’s Trans
The Role of Rents in the Transition from Socialist Redistributive Economies to Market Capitalism
In this paper the authors make a critical distinction between inequalities arising from profits and wages and inequalities arising from rents, following Sorensen and 19th century economist Ricardo. Their new contribution is to articulate how rents are especially important in post-communist capitalist transition. Without the concept of rents, the mechanisms of corruption cannot be understood. The authors identify three types of rent-seeking behavi…
Mortality in Transition
In addition to reinforcing existing evidence linking smoking, hazardous drinking and unemployment to mortality, the PrivMort dataset will investigate the variation in transition experiences for individual respondents and their families across settlements characterized by differing contextual factors, including industrial characteristics, simultaneously providing information about how excess mortality is distributed across settlements with various…
Weber's theory of domination and post-communist capitalisms
This article has four main objectives. First, it introduces the ideal types of domination of Weber. Contrary to the received wisdom, which knows only “three ideal types” (traditional, charismatic and legal rational) I present the “fourth” type of domination, Weber called “Wille der Beherrschten” as an important correction of his ideal type of legal-rational authority. Next I make a novel, critical distinction between patrimonial and prebendal typ…
Capitalisms After Communism
A leading Hungarian sociologist revises Weber’s notion of prebendal and patrimonial regimes to classify the new capitalist orders of the former Second World. Are governments from Budapest to Beijing now converging on the same models of politicized economy
Varieties of Social Structure During and After Socialism
By attempting to synthesize the theories of Karl Marx, Max Weber, and Pierre Bourdieu, the purpose of this article is to propose a theory that captures the diversity of socialism (from the Soviet type to its Chinese version) and postsocialist systems (capturing the diverse pathways from socialist redistribution to the market-integrated economies of Central Europe to the countries of the ex-Soviet Union to the Asian socialist/postsocialist societi…
The Nature of the Chinese Formation and the Making of Its Welfare Regime
The driving forces of the Chinese economy since the reforms of 1978 are the subject of intense scholarly debate. Some emphasize the role of private entrepreneurship; others identify the public/collective sector, local or central state as the engine of Chinese growth. This article suggests that the first decade of the Chinese reform was entrepreneurial. During the 1980s, the transformation stemmed “from below.” Since the 1990s, the change has been…
Post-Communist Welfare Pathways
Third Ways
This article compares the Chongqing model of the “third hand” with various theories of the “third way” in late socialist Eastern Europe. The third hand is praised as an intriguing attempt to offer an alternative to the invisible hand of the free market and the redistributive hand of state socialism. Funding of public goods from capital gains from government-owned land and real estate is an innovative idea, but it is unclear whether it is a sustai…
From Latifundia to Central Planning and Onward to Agribusiness
Maria Markus and the (Re)Invention of Hungarian Sociology
Cities after Socialism
A Theory of Transitions
This note offers three complementary comments on Sun Liping's essay, which appears in this issue. (1) The transition process China followed was indeed a unique path, but it is equally useful to distinguish among the divergent trajectories Eastern and Central European countries entered after the fall of communism. There are therefore three, rather than just two, trajectories leading out of socialism. (2) Nevertheless, there is evidence of some con…
Primary Group Structures and Their Functions
Simon, Herbert A. 1957 Administrative Behavior, 2nd edition. New York: Macmillan. Stinchcombe, Arthur L. 1968 Constructing Social Reality. New York: Harcourt, Brace and World. Thompson, James D. 1967 Organizations in Action: Social Science Basis of Administrative Theory. New York: McGraw-Hill. Truman, David B. 1953 The Governmental Process. New York: Knopf. Weber, Max. 1947 The Theory of Social and Economic Organization. New York: Oxford Universi…
Social Inequalities in State Socialist Redistributive Economies
The Market Transition Debate
The Prospects and Limits of the East European New Class Project
Housing inequalities and occupational segregation in state socialist cities
The city in the transition to socialism
Interests and Symbols in Post-Communist Political Culture
Les AA. s'efforcent de comprendre les raisons du succes du parti communiste aux elections de 1994 en Hongrie. Ils montrent que ce pays, apres la chute du communisme s'est trouve face a un vide democratique et social. Ils presentent dans un premier temps la situation politique en hongrie a partir de 1989. Ils examinent ensuite les resultats des elections de 1990 et de 1994. Ils s'efforcent de comprendre les facteurs qui ont determine les choix des…
Why socialism failed
On Irony
This article proffers an invitation to neoclassical sociology. This is understood as a Habermasian reconstruction of the fundamental vision of the discipline as conceptualized by classical theorists, particularly Weber. Taking the cases of Eastern and Central Europe as a laboratory, we argue against the idea of a single, homogenizing globalizing logic. Currently and historically what we see instead is a remarkable diversity of capitalist forms an…
Left Turn in Postcommunist Politics
The three waves of New Class theories
Urban development and regional management in Eastern Europe
Weber's theory of domination and post-communist capitalisms
This article has four main objectives. First, it introduces the ideal types of domination of Weber. Contrary to the received wisdom, which knows only “three ideal types” (traditional, charismatic and legal rational) I present the “fourth” type of domination, Weber called “Wille der Beherrschten” as an important correction of his ideal type of legal-rational authority. Next I make a novel, critical distinction between patrimonial and prebendal typ…
The Role of Rents in the Transition from Socialist Redistributive Economies to Market Capitalism
In this paper the authors make a critical distinction between inequalities arising from profits and wages and inequalities arising from rents, following Sorensen and 19th century economist Ricardo. Their new contribution is to articulate how rents are especially important in post-communist capitalist transition. Without the concept of rents, the mechanisms of corruption cannot be understood. The authors identify three types of rent-seeking behavi…
A Theory of Transitions
This note offers three complementary comments on Sun Liping's essay, which appears in this issue. (1) The transition process China followed was indeed a unique path, but it is equally useful to distinguish among the divergent trajectories Eastern and Central European countries entered after the fall of communism. There are therefore three, rather than just two, trajectories leading out of socialism. (2) Nevertheless, there is evidence of some con…
The Utopia of Postsocialist Theory and the Ironic View of History in Neoclassical Sociology
Michael Burawoy offers three thought-provoking criticisms of our book, Making Capitalism without Capitalists: Class Formation and Elite Struggles in Post-Communist Central Europe: (1) that we abandon class analysis, (2) that we do not suggest an alternative to the present capitalist order, and, therefore, (3) that our “neoclassical sociology” abandons the critical vision of classical sociology. At this abstract level, we plead not guilty to all t…
Housing policy in the emergent socialist mixed economy of Eastern Europe
The late 1980s signal a qualitatively new stage in the development of socialist economies. Earlier reforms attempted to move away from a monolithic, centrally planned system, to find more effective mechanisms of economic management, in particular to reduce the role of planning and increase the role of the market within the statist economy. But during the last two or three years a significant change has occurred in the reform discourse. The debate…
Structural changes of and alternatives to capitalist development in the contemporary urban and regional system
Market Dreams
Historical variations in inter-ethnic relations
Using detailed demographic reconstruction for a single village in northern Hungary, this article seeks to trace the history, over the last two centuries, of social and economic inclusion of the Romany minority. In particular, demographic patterns (fertility, births out of wedlock and infant mortality) are examined as indices of social and economic inclusion of the Romany ethnic group. One of the major findings of this study is that there is no un…
Kornai on the affinity of systems
More than 40 years ago, János Kornai introduced his famous supermarket metaphor. Socioeconomic systems cannot be constructed from purposely selected features, similar to customers in a supermarket, who can freely put into their shopping trolley whatever they like. Systems constitute an organic whole. They contain good and bad features in fixed proportions. After 1990, Kornai and most Western commentators expected that as market integration and pr…
An outline of the social history of socialism or an auto-critique of an auto-critique
Housing System and Social Structure
The Last of the Marxist Urban Sociologists
Cities in Recession
PART ONE: THE POLITICS AND ECONOMICS OF THE NEW RIGHT - Ivan Szelenyi Introduction: Urban Policies of the New Right -- Critical Responses The New Class War in the United States - Frances Fox Piven and Richard A Cloward Business Rationality and Barriers to Recapitalization - Donald Tomaskovic-Devy and S M Miller PART TWO: LEFT RESPONSES TO THE DECLINE OF PUBLIC HOUSING, PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION AND URBAN JOBS The Decollectivization of Consumption - M…
Primary Group Structures and Their Functions
Simon, Herbert A. 1957 Administrative Behavior, 2nd edition. New York: Macmillan. Stinchcombe, Arthur L. 1968 Constructing Social Reality. New York: Harcourt, Brace and World. Thompson, James D. 1967 Organizations in Action: Social Science Basis of Administrative Theory. New York: McGraw-Hill. Truman, David B. 1953 The Governmental Process. New York: Knopf. Weber, Max. 1947 The Theory of Social and Economic Organization. New York: Oxford Universi…
Housing System and Social Structure
Gestion régionale et classe sociale
Szelenyi Ivan, Balandier Anne. Gestion régionale et classe sociale : le cas de l'Europe de l'Est. In: Revue française de sociologie, 1976, 17-1. pp. 13-52
Social Inequalities in State Socialist Redistributive Economies
La position de l'intelligentsia dans la structure de classe des sociétés socialistes d'État
La position de l'intelligentsia dans la structure de classe des sociétés socialistes d'Etat. L'auteur qui se propose de décrire la structure de classe des sociétés socialistes d'Etat en Europe de l'Est fait l'hypothèse que les mécanismes de redistribution jouent dans ces sociétés le même rôle que la propriété privée des moyens de production dans les sociétés capitalistes, assurer le prélèvement de la plus-value et l'expropriation des producteurs …
The Intellectuals on the Road to Class Power
Ruling Class, Ruling Culture
Au-delà de l'analyse de classes
Après avoir rapidement retracé les origines de la «nouvelle sociologie urbaine » et ses développements marxistes, Szelenyi en montre les limites. Le concept de «mode de production » et plus encore le «niveau de production » ne suffisent à expliquer la nature de l'urbanisation dans différentes sociétés : il faut alors faire appel à «l'autonomie relative de l'État », ce qui n'est guère plus satisfaisant. L 'auteur voit dans «les positions de classe…
The Future of Intellectuals and the Rise of the New Class
Alvin Gouldner. The Future of Intellectuals and the Rise of the New Class. New York: Seabury Press, 1979
Whose Alternative
Urban development and regional management in Eastern Europe
Structural changes of and alternatives to capitalist development in the contemporary urban and regional system
Technology and Society under Lenin and Stalin
Inequalities and social policy under state socialism
La marche au pouvoir des intellectuels. Le cas des pays de l'Est
Gouldner's theory of intellectuals as a flawed universal class
Urban inequalities under state socialism
Cities and the problem of the transition
New Hungarian Peasants
A collection of studies by distinguished anthropologists, ehtnographers and sociologists on the collectivization of agriculture in Hungary, edited by marida Hollos and Bela Maday
The Many Faces of Socialism
The city in the transition to socialism
Cities in Recession
PART ONE: THE POLITICS AND ECONOMICS OF THE NEW RIGHT - Ivan Szelenyi Introduction: Urban Policies of the New Right -- Critical Responses The New Class War in the United States - Frances Fox Piven and Richard A Cloward Business Rationality and Barriers to Recapitalization - Donald Tomaskovic-Devy and S M Miller PART TWO: LEFT RESPONSES TO THE DECLINE OF PUBLIC HOUSING, PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION AND URBAN JOBS The Decollectivization of Consumption - M…
Redistributive Injustice
Recent Contributions to the Political Economy of State Socialism
Capitalist and Socialist Crises in the Late Twentieth Century
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