The "Chinese style reforms" and the Hungarian "Goulash Communism"

Arbeitspapier

Similarities and differences will be demonstrated between Chinese and Hungarian party-state systems. We define the role of reforms in the self-reproduction of both party-states. We shall demonstrate how different patterns of power distribution lead to the implementation of different reforms. We shall describe how these different reforms have created the Hungarian “Goulash communism” and the “Chinese style” reforms. We shall also explain the conditions that have lead “Goulash communism” to political transformation first in Hungary accompanied by economic crisis, and “Chinese style reforms” to economic transformation first in China, accompanied by macroeconomic growth.

Object Details

• ISBN: 978-963-9796-51-5
• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: IEHAS Discussion Papers ; No. MT-DP - 2009/3

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Current Heterodox Approaches: Historical; Institutional; Evolutionary ; Network Formation and Analysis: Theory ; Economic History: Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics; Industrial Structure; Growth; Fluctuations: General, International, or Comparative ; Other Economic Systems: Planning, Coordination, and Reform ; Comparative Studies of Particular Economies
• Subject: reforms ; transformation ; party-state systems ; goulash communism ; Chinese style reforms ; Politisches System ; Macht ; Politische Reform ; Wirtschaftsreform ; Vergleich ; China ; Ungarn

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Csanádi, Mária
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Economics
• (where): Budapest
• (when): 2009

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/108148
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