Laszlo Bruszt
Biographic Data
| ID | 331349 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Laszlo Bruszt |
| GIVEN NAMES | Laszlo |
| FAMILY NAME | Bruszt |
| SIGNATURE | BRUSZT L |
| AFFILIATIONS | European University Institute |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7624-0308 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 251 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 32 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Building a Transnational Developmental State in Europe: Lessons from the Big Bang enlargement for the next integration round
Core-periphery divisions in the EU? East-west and north-south tensions compared
Divisive politicisation of inequalities among the member states in the EU is the lowest in member states where one would expect the highest level of domestic demand for it, and it is highest in member states in which one would expect much lower demand. In this paper, we argue that the territorially fragmented structure of political representation in the EU creates the incentives for politicians to engage in blaming the other states and adopting u…
Manufacturing development: How transnational market integration shapes opportunities and capacities for development in Europe’s three peripheries
According to the dominating perspective in the literature, transnational market integration has the uniform effect of decreasing the room for development in peripheral economies that do not have the economic and political power of countries like China or Russia. Challenging this perspective, this Special Issue (SI) contrasts different integration strategies yielding dramatically different effects on developmental opportunities and capacities. By …
To the Memory of Wade Jacoby
We dedicate this special issue to the memory of Wade Jacoby, the great scholar and wonderful friend whose works have inspired us, who played a major role in the birth of the project that lead to th
Collateral benefit: The developmental effects of EU-induced state building in Central and Eastern Europe
According to the literature on economic development, the upgrading of core state institutions is the sine qua non of promoting growth and development in lesser-developed countries. The European Union (EU) is the first transnational integration regime that has experimented with measures to upgrade core state institutions. It did so in the pre-accession period of the would-be member states in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). In this paper, we empi…
Diverging developmental strategies beyond “lead sectors” in the EU’s periphery: The politics of developmental alliances in the Hungarian and Polish dairy sectors
Due to its focus on high tech sectors and the role played by FDI, the literature dealing with developmental opportunities in Central and Eastern European (CEE) economies underestimates the room for domestic developmental agency. In this paper, we contrast diverging strategies of positioning the Polish and Hungarian dairy sector in European markets. In Hungary, ‘outsourcing’ the integration of fragmented producers to multinational corporations (MN…
Governing Market Integration and Development—Lessons from Europe’s Eastern and Southern Peripheries: Introduction to the Special Issue
Making states for the single market: European integration and the reshaping of economic states in the Southern and Eastern peripheries of Europe
European integration has profoundly reshaped states in Europe's peripheries. It has deprived them of the traditional means of autonomously managing development, imposed institutions defending the integrity of the regional market from domestic actors, and provided them, in exchange, with EU-level development policies. However, whereas in the South the EU has relied primarily on incentives for remaking the economic state, in the East it has engaged…
Varieties of dis-embedded liberalism. EU integration strategies in the Eastern peripheries of Europe
In contrast to the post-1945 integration of Western Europe in the global economic system, coined by John Ruggie as embedded liberalism, the integration of the Eastern peripheries happens in the framework of a new liberal regional settlement. The latter takes large parts of the management of the economy out of the hands of states and compensates the dis-embedding of markets from national control to various degrees. This contribution compares the E…
Transnacionalización, integración social y diversidades de capitalismo en el este y en el sur
This article analyzes the deep and shallow modes of international integration, semicore, semiperipheral, and peripheral profiles of global insertion, and the presence and absence of transformative state capacity and social cohesion, as interacting dimensions of capitalist diversity in post-socialist Eastern Europe and Latin America. On these grounds, it is argued that Cardoso and Faletto’s dependent development paradigm maintains validity. When a…
Associating, mobilizing, politicizing: Local Developmental Agency From Without
Integrating rule takers: Transnational integration regimes shaping institutional change in emerging market democracies
How does the transnationalization of markets shape institution building, particularly in those countries that have few options other than to incorporate the rules and norms promulgated by advanced industrialized countries? Building on recent advances in international and comparative political economy, we propose a framework for the comparative study of the ways in which transnational integration regimes (TIRs) shape the development of regulatory …
Transnationalization, Social Integration, and Capitalist Diversity in the East and the South
Multi-level Governance—the Eastern Versions: Emerging Patterns of Regional Developmental Governance in the New Member States
This article deals with emerging configurations of developmental regionalism and different patterns of multi-level governance in the Central and East European countries, using examples from the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland. EU conditionality and pre-accession programmes linked to the idea of a Europe of the Regions played a considerable role in the changing—and in the case of some of the aspiring member countries, in the creation—of regiona…
The Politics of Civic Combinations
In this article, we explore the ways in which partnerships with the state within state-led developmental programs might effect the autonomy of civic organizations (COs) and their readiness to enter in political action. To identify the relationship between collaboration with the state and civic autonomy we draw on data from a survey of 740 Hungarian regional civic associations. We did not find support for the theses that mixing with the state migh…
Making Capitalism Compatible with Democracy: Tentative Reflections from the ‘East’
Rooted transnational publics: Integrating foreign ties and civic activism
Organizing Technologies: Genre Forms of Online Civic Association in Eastern Europe
How do civic associations in Eastern Europe organize themselves online? Based on data collected on 1,585 East European civil society Web sites, the authors identify five emergent genres of organizing technologies: newsletters, interactive platforms, multilingual solicitations, directories, and brochures. These clusters do not correspond to stages of development. Moreover, newer Web sitesare morelikely to be typical of their genre,suggesting that …
Shaping the Web of Civic Participation: Civil Society Websites in Eastern Europe
To study technologies of political participation in the era of internet we examine how civic associations in Eastern Europe create socio-technical platforms of civic participation. The creation of socio-technical platforms combines specific technological features with actors and types of acts. Based on data we collected on 1,585 East European civil society websites we identify five emergent genres of online platforms of civic participation: newsl…
Who Counts? Supranational Norms and Societal Needs
Market Making as State Making: Constitutions and Economic Development in Post-communist Eastern Europe
Making Markets and Eastern Enlargement: Diverging Convergence
This study deals with the extent and content of 'Europeanisation' in the Central and East European (CEE) countries at the level of market making. It argues that Europeanisation at the level of market making was about creating states with strong capacities to preserve and regulate markets and with increased and reconstructed administrative and planning capabilities. The most successful CEE countries with their strong states and weak social and eco…
One Way or Multiple Paths: For a Comparative Sociology of East European Capitalism
Heterarchies and Developmental Traps
State capacity to resist powerful predatory economic groups is highly dependent on the way social diversity is represented within the polity. Such state capacity is weak when a single branch of government can usurp the representation of public good between two elections. ln some democracies that I call heterarchies, coalition partners, parties in different houses of the legislature, different levels and branches of government, autonomous state ag…
Postcommunist Institutional Design
Making states for the single market: European integration and the reshaping of economic states in the Southern and Eastern peripheries of Europe
European integration has profoundly reshaped states in Europe's peripheries. It has deprived them of the traditional means of autonomously managing development, imposed institutions defending the integrity of the regional market from domestic actors, and provided them, in exchange, with EU-level development policies. However, whereas in the South the EU has relied primarily on incentives for remaking the economic state, in the East it has engaged…
One Way or Multiple Paths: For a Comparative Sociology of East European Capitalism
Multi-level Governance—the Eastern Versions: Emerging Patterns of Regional Developmental Governance in the New Member States
This article deals with emerging configurations of developmental regionalism and different patterns of multi-level governance in the Central and East European countries, using examples from the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland. EU conditionality and pre-accession programmes linked to the idea of a Europe of the Regions played a considerable role in the changing—and in the case of some of the aspiring member countries, in the creation—of regiona…
Making Markets and Eastern Enlargement: Diverging Convergence
This study deals with the extent and content of 'Europeanisation' in the Central and East European (CEE) countries at the level of market making. It argues that Europeanisation at the level of market making was about creating states with strong capacities to preserve and regulate markets and with increased and reconstructed administrative and planning capabilities. The most successful CEE countries with their strong states and weak social and eco…
Manufacturing development: How transnational market integration shapes opportunities and capacities for development in Europe’s three peripheries
According to the dominating perspective in the literature, transnational market integration has the uniform effect of decreasing the room for development in peripheral economies that do not have the economic and political power of countries like China or Russia. Challenging this perspective, this Special Issue (SI) contrasts different integration strategies yielding dramatically different effects on developmental opportunities and capacities. By …
Who Counts? Supranational Norms and Societal Needs
Varieties of dis-embedded liberalism. EU integration strategies in the Eastern peripheries of Europe
In contrast to the post-1945 integration of Western Europe in the global economic system, coined by John Ruggie as embedded liberalism, the integration of the Eastern peripheries happens in the framework of a new liberal regional settlement. The latter takes large parts of the management of the economy out of the hands of states and compensates the dis-embedding of markets from national control to various degrees. This contribution compares the E…
Integrating rule takers: Transnational integration regimes shaping institutional change in emerging market democracies
How does the transnationalization of markets shape institution building, particularly in those countries that have few options other than to incorporate the rules and norms promulgated by advanced industrialized countries? Building on recent advances in international and comparative political economy, we propose a framework for the comparative study of the ways in which transnational integration regimes (TIRs) shape the development of regulatory …
Rooted transnational publics: Integrating foreign ties and civic activism
Diverging developmental strategies beyond “lead sectors” in the EU’s periphery: The politics of developmental alliances in the Hungarian and Polish dairy sectors
Due to its focus on high tech sectors and the role played by FDI, the literature dealing with developmental opportunities in Central and Eastern European (CEE) economies underestimates the room for domestic developmental agency. In this paper, we contrast diverging strategies of positioning the Polish and Hungarian dairy sector in European markets. In Hungary, ‘outsourcing’ the integration of fragmented producers to multinational corporations (MN…
Shaping the Web of Civic Participation: Civil Society Websites in Eastern Europe
To study technologies of political participation in the era of internet we examine how civic associations in Eastern Europe create socio-technical platforms of civic participation. The creation of socio-technical platforms combines specific technological features with actors and types of acts. Based on data we collected on 1,585 East European civil society websites we identify five emergent genres of online platforms of civic participation: newsl…
Collateral benefit: The developmental effects of EU-induced state building in Central and Eastern Europe
According to the literature on economic development, the upgrading of core state institutions is the sine qua non of promoting growth and development in lesser-developed countries. The European Union (EU) is the first transnational integration regime that has experimented with measures to upgrade core state institutions. It did so in the pre-accession period of the would-be member states in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). In this paper, we empi…
Market Making as State Making: Constitutions and Economic Development in Post-communist Eastern Europe
Core-periphery divisions in the EU? East-west and north-south tensions compared
Divisive politicisation of inequalities among the member states in the EU is the lowest in member states where one would expect the highest level of domestic demand for it, and it is highest in member states in which one would expect much lower demand. In this paper, we argue that the territorially fragmented structure of political representation in the EU creates the incentives for politicians to engage in blaming the other states and adopting u…
Associating, mobilizing, politicizing: Local Developmental Agency From Without
Transnationalization, Social Integration, and Capitalist Diversity in the East and the South
Enabling constraints: Fontes institucionais de Coerência nas políticas públicas no pós-socialismo
O artigo apresenta uma análise das condições políticas e institucionais que explicam a produção de reformas econômicas coerentes e estáveis em países do Leste Europeu, ou seja, em sociedades que experimentam uma transição política simultaneamente à mudança nas formas de propriedade. Ao analisar os casos históricos da Alemanha, Hungria e República Tcheca, os autores sustentam que, ao contrário do que considera a maior parte da literatura, situaçõe…
Transformative Politics: Social Costs and Social Peace in East Central Europe
The Politics of Civic Combinations
In this article, we explore the ways in which partnerships with the state within state-led developmental programs might effect the autonomy of civic organizations (COs) and their readiness to enter in political action. To identify the relationship between collaboration with the state and civic autonomy we draw on data from a survey of 740 Hungarian regional civic associations. We did not find support for the theses that mixing with the state migh…
Organizing Technologies: Genre Forms of Online Civic Association in Eastern Europe
How do civic associations in Eastern Europe organize themselves online? Based on data collected on 1,585 East European civil society Web sites, the authors identify five emergent genres of organizing technologies: newsletters, interactive platforms, multilingual solicitations, directories, and brochures. These clusters do not correspond to stages of development. Moreover, newer Web sitesare morelikely to be typical of their genre,suggesting that …
Building a Transnational Developmental State in Europe: Lessons from the Big Bang enlargement for the next integration round
Governing Market Integration and Development—Lessons from Europe’s Eastern and Southern Peripheries: Introduction to the Special Issue
Heterarchies and Developmental Traps
State capacity to resist powerful predatory economic groups is highly dependent on the way social diversity is represented within the polity. Such state capacity is weak when a single branch of government can usurp the representation of public good between two elections. ln some democracies that I call heterarchies, coalition partners, parties in different houses of the legislature, different levels and branches of government, autonomous state ag…
Postcommunist Institutional Design
The Rise and Expected Fall of Functional Corruption: A Hungarian Case Study
The Dilemmas of Economic Transition in Hungary
se p a ra te d fro m e a c h o th e r. In cre asin
Ungarisches Wählerverhalten an der Schwelle zur parlamentarischen Demokratie / Hungarian Electors' Behaviour at the Threshold to Parlamentary Democracy
Article Ungarisches Wählerverhalten an der Schwelle zur parlamentarischen Demokratie / Hungarian Electors’ Behaviour at the Threshold to Parlamentary Democracy was published on January 1, 1990 in the journal Comparative Southeast European Studies (volume 39, issue 1)
Transformative Politics: Social Costs and Social Peace in East Central Europe
A la recherche des clivages occultés: Un conflit universitaire en Hongrie
A la recherche des clivages occultés. Prenant pour point de départ un conflit dans une Faculté de Budapest au sujet de la réforme de l'enseignement d'une discipline, on tente ici l'exploration des dimensions sociologiques cachées des rapports d'intérêts et des stratégies de carrière marquant l'opposition entre "réformateurs" et "conservateurs" parmi les étudiants et les enseignants. Les prises de position propres aux acteurs du conflit se rattach…
Enabling constraints: Fontes institucionais de Coerência nas políticas públicas no pós-socialismo
O artigo apresenta uma análise das condições políticas e institucionais que explicam a produção de reformas econômicas coerentes e estáveis em países do Leste Europeu, ou seja, em sociedades que experimentam uma transição política simultaneamente à mudança nas formas de propriedade. Ao analisar os casos históricos da Alemanha, Hungria e República Tcheca, os autores sustentam que, ao contrário do que considera a maior parte da literatura, situaçõe…
Postcommunist Institutional Design
Fuentes institucionales de la coherencia de las políticas en el postsocialismo
One Way or Multiple Paths: For a Comparative Sociology of East European Capitalism
Heterarchies and Developmental Traps
State capacity to resist powerful predatory economic groups is highly dependent on the way social diversity is represented within the polity. Such state capacity is weak when a single branch of government can usurp the representation of public good between two elections. ln some democracies that I call heterarchies, coalition partners, parties in different houses of the legislature, different levels and branches of government, autonomous state ag…
Market Making as State Making: Constitutions and Economic Development in Post-communist Eastern Europe
Making Markets and Eastern Enlargement: Diverging Convergence
This study deals with the extent and content of 'Europeanisation' in the Central and East European (CEE) countries at the level of market making. It argues that Europeanisation at the level of market making was about creating states with strong capacities to preserve and regulate markets and with increased and reconstructed administrative and planning capabilities. The most successful CEE countries with their strong states and weak social and eco…
Who Counts? Supranational Norms and Societal Needs
Organizing Technologies: Genre Forms of Online Civic Association in Eastern Europe
How do civic associations in Eastern Europe organize themselves online? Based on data collected on 1,585 East European civil society Web sites, the authors identify five emergent genres of organizing technologies: newsletters, interactive platforms, multilingual solicitations, directories, and brochures. These clusters do not correspond to stages of development. Moreover, newer Web sitesare morelikely to be typical of their genre,suggesting that …
Shaping the Web of Civic Participation: Civil Society Websites in Eastern Europe
To study technologies of political participation in the era of internet we examine how civic associations in Eastern Europe create socio-technical platforms of civic participation. The creation of socio-technical platforms combines specific technological features with actors and types of acts. Based on data we collected on 1,585 East European civil society websites we identify five emergent genres of online platforms of civic participation: newsl…
Making Capitalism Compatible with Democracy: Tentative Reflections from the ‘East’
Rooted transnational publics: Integrating foreign ties and civic activism
Multi-level Governance—the Eastern Versions: Emerging Patterns of Regional Developmental Governance in the New Member States
This article deals with emerging configurations of developmental regionalism and different patterns of multi-level governance in the Central and East European countries, using examples from the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland. EU conditionality and pre-accession programmes linked to the idea of a Europe of the Regions played a considerable role in the changing—and in the case of some of the aspiring member countries, in the creation—of regiona…
The Politics of Civic Combinations
In this article, we explore the ways in which partnerships with the state within state-led developmental programs might effect the autonomy of civic organizations (COs) and their readiness to enter in political action. To identify the relationship between collaboration with the state and civic autonomy we draw on data from a survey of 740 Hungarian regional civic associations. We did not find support for the theses that mixing with the state migh…
Transnationalization, Social Integration, and Capitalist Diversity in the East and the South
Integrating rule takers: Transnational integration regimes shaping institutional change in emerging market democracies
How does the transnationalization of markets shape institution building, particularly in those countries that have few options other than to incorporate the rules and norms promulgated by advanced industrialized countries? Building on recent advances in international and comparative political economy, we propose a framework for the comparative study of the ways in which transnational integration regimes (TIRs) shape the development of regulatory …
Transnacionalización, integración social y diversidades de capitalismo en el este y en el sur
This article analyzes the deep and shallow modes of international integration, semicore, semiperipheral, and peripheral profiles of global insertion, and the presence and absence of transformative state capacity and social cohesion, as interacting dimensions of capitalist diversity in post-socialist Eastern Europe and Latin America. On these grounds, it is argued that Cardoso and Faletto’s dependent development paradigm maintains validity. When a…
Associating, mobilizing, politicizing: Local Developmental Agency From Without
Making states for the single market: European integration and the reshaping of economic states in the Southern and Eastern peripheries of Europe
European integration has profoundly reshaped states in Europe's peripheries. It has deprived them of the traditional means of autonomously managing development, imposed institutions defending the integrity of the regional market from domestic actors, and provided them, in exchange, with EU-level development policies. However, whereas in the South the EU has relied primarily on incentives for remaking the economic state, in the East it has engaged…
Varieties of dis-embedded liberalism. EU integration strategies in the Eastern peripheries of Europe
In contrast to the post-1945 integration of Western Europe in the global economic system, coined by John Ruggie as embedded liberalism, the integration of the Eastern peripheries happens in the framework of a new liberal regional settlement. The latter takes large parts of the management of the economy out of the hands of states and compensates the dis-embedding of markets from national control to various degrees. This contribution compares the E…
Political science (29 works) · Economics (18 works) · Politics (17 works) · Economic system (15 works) · Law (15 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Law (12 works) · European union (10 works) · International trade (10 works) · Political economy (10 works)