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The Political Economy of Middle Class Politics and the Global Crisis in Eastern Europe

Part of the International Political Economy Series Book Series

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-76943-7

ISBN: 978-3-030-76942-0

Publisher: Springer International Publishing - Springer Journals

Aug 10, 2021

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Social Movements in Eastern Europe: Problems of Understanding Non-Western Contexts

Gagyi, Agnes

Pages: 1 –80

[This chapter points out a time–space bias in mainstream Social Movement Studies, arguing that both the types of movements and their political, social, and economic context it considered through its development as a discipline were based in postwar Western contexts. This perspective tends to...
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External Integration as Internal Force: Middle Class Politics and the “Politics of Backwardness” in Eastern Europe

Gagyi, Agnes

Pages: 81 –134

[This chapter discusses how the process of dependent development produces specific traits in East European politics, and how these come to work in the relation between limited middle class development and middle class politics. Then it asks how these characteristics relate to Western middle class...
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Crisis, Regime Change, Movement: Comparing Mobilization Cycles in Hungarian and Romanian Constellations of Global Integration After 1973 and 2008

Gagyi, Agnes

Pages: 135 –224

[This chapter provides a comparative case study of global integration regimes and contesting movements in Hungary and Romania, focusing on the periods after the global crises of 1973 and 2008. In the case of Hungarian environmental and Romanian workers’ movements, the case studies show how...
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Long-Term Middle Class Politics and Contemporary New Left Initiatives in Hungary and Romania

Gagyi, Agnes

Pages: 225 –280

[This chapter looks at new left segments within post-2008 mobilizations in Hungary and Romania. In contrast to interpretations which treat the appearance of new left thought as an awakening to a class consciousness that transparently links structural analysis to actors’ own political orientation,...

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