Boom and Consolidation: The Nonprofit Sector in Hungary

Kuti, Éva; Sebestény, István

doi:10.1007/978-3-322-80980-3_32

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“…Consequently, the instrumental way most people used to treat nature was generally accepted [46]. Such a habit is very hard to change, given the fact that in the former communist countries, where -the obligatory voluntary work‖ existed, the impact of past memories of the voluntary element still has a rather detrimental effect on the willingness of people to get involved [22,[47][48][49]. In addition, the natural environment in the Soviet Block has been declined gradually in some regions, so that by the end of the 1980s the Eastern and Central European countries were places characterized by very high pollution alongside undeveloped refuges of high biodiversity.…”

Section: Attitude Toward Public Goods As Naturementioning

confidence: 99%

Cultural Diversity Issues in Biodiversity Monitoring—Cases of Lithuania, Poland and Denmark

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Public participation is a key element in nature conservation in Europe and a necessity for collecting broad scale data on biodiversity and its dynamics. However, vast societal differences exist between eastern and western European countries, resulting in problems for public participation in post-communist states as compared to western countries. Here, we compare diversity in monitoring practices and public participation in countries with different political histories. Drawing on in-depth ethnographic studies conducted in Lithuania and Poland, as well as a rapid assessment in Denmark, we have focused on the historical, cultural and social determinants of the volunteers' participation in biodiversity monitoring. Our results indicate the reasons why volunteer involvement-as an expression of a participatory approach-has a lower incidence in the post-communist countries, compared to voluntarism common in occidental democracies. We discuss our results in the context of the main social factors considered to be a legacy of the Soviet regime.

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Section: Attitude Toward Public Goods As Naturementioning

confidence: 99%

Cultural Diversity Issues in Biodiversity Monitoring—Cases of Lithuania, Poland and Denmark

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“…The prominent actors of advocacy are voluntary associations, trade unions, business and professional associations, while voluntary associations play the single most important role in democracybuilding and meeting the socio-psychological needs of their members. Created by the state and supposed to implement the arm's length principle, public law foundations % Sources: Kuti (1996), KSH (1997KSH ( , 2002KSH ( , 2008 . Sources: Kuti (1996, KSH (1997KSH ( , 2002KSH ( , 2008 (2008) have gained importance in distributing government support.…”

Section: Some Background Information On the Third Sector In Hungarymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…None of the actors foresaw that this general insistence on secrecy would create ideal conditions for those organizations which misused the nonprofit forms, infringed the professional and ethical norms or operated as tax shelters. Their misbehavior severely damaged the reputation of the nonprofit sector as a whole (Kuti 1996). Some serious scandals drew attention to the complex problem of independence and accountability.…”

Section: Independence and Accountabilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Policy Initiatives Towards the Third Sector in International Perspective

Gidron¹,

Bar²

2010

Nonprofit and Civil Society Studies

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“…Hungary represents the other extreme. Its nonprofit sector in 1990 was one based on membership primarily, much of which carried over from the socialist period (Kuti, 1996). Consequently, the scale of its nonprofit sector has a long and narrow shape, which makes its structure potentially closer to the Swedish case than to any other.…”

Section: Combining Measures Of Scalementioning

confidence: 99%

“…The United States and the United Kingdom, in tum, are set apart from Hungary (see Kuti, 1996) and Sweden (see Lundstroem & Wijkstroem, 1998). The latter two countries share similar revenue structures and some similarity in dimension because of the social democratic model of state welfare pro-vision, but otherwise they differ dramatically in their overall scale due to Hungary's socialist legacy.…”

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confidence: 99%