Purging the past: The Current State of Lustration Laws in the Former Communist Bloc

Ellis, Mark

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“…Mark S. Ellis has demonstrated that lustration laws in Russia, Ukraine and other states that formerly belonged to the former Communist bloc were never enforced and, in fact, were counterbalanced by other laws that made it possible to classify information about individuals who used to work for the Communist Party and the secret police, and who were engaged in operations that could be qualified as crimes against humanity. 160 Gluzman's and van Voren's rejection of the narratives about political psychiatry that are depicted in black and white and their calls to decipher the "shades" of the past and present realities deserve attention. Narratives that exploit a binary concept lack analytical depth.…”

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Rethinking Psychiatric Terror against Nationalists in Ukraine: Spatial Dimensions of Post-Stalinist State Violence

Bertelsen

2014

Kyiv-Mohyla Humanities Journal

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Rethinking Psychiatric Terror against Nationalists in Ukraine: Spatial Dimensions of Post-Stalinist State Violence

Bertelsen

2014

Kyiv-Mohyla Humanities Journal

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“…Th roughout the years of the 1990s it turned out that the Socialist Party could eff ectively use local politics for maintaining its territorial network of interests and cadres. Th is turned out to be obvious later on when former heads of local soviets (former Party commissars) successfully rebooted their former careers as town mayors en masse (Ellis 1997). Political contradictions of this transitional period off er an understanding of why the Hungarian path to administrative development did not prove to be a continuous success story throughout the ensuing decades (Orenstein 2008).…”

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From Overdecentralization to Overcentralization ? Hungarian Experience in Handling the Crisis at the Local Level

Gellén¹

2014

NISPAcee Journal of Public Administration and Policy

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Th is paper provides a polemic interpretation of recent Hungarian public-administration reforms compared to the opinions that can be found in international scientifi c literature. Th e divergence of the various interpretations stems from the diff erent perspectives on the historic context of the development path of the Hungarian municipal administration during the pre-and post-regime change period. Th e differences in the interpretation of the achievements of the regime change determine whether one would suggest a minor correction or a total replacement -if given the possibility. Aft er briefl y describing the public-administration legacy of the communist past and of the post-communist decades, the article delves into the analysis of the fi nancial unsustainability of the highly decentralized local-government system. Th e analysis builds on the fi ndings of international fi nanciers that operate as policy-transfer powerhouses, as well. Bursting fi nancial tensions led to Hungary's loan agreement with the IMF in 1996. Although the loan was paid back by 1998, internal systemic ineffi ciencies stemming from the uneasy compromises of the regime change still had their corroding eff ect, although vulnerable fi nances were veiled by occasional conjunctures in the domestic and international economy. In the year 2008, the country became virtually insolvent and again applied for an IMF loan. Th e IMF itself formulated certain measures to increase the effi ciency of the overdecentralized local-government system. Unlike its predecessor, the government that stepped into power in 2010 had the political power to launch systemic corrections in the local-government system. Th e reforms contained a trade-off : the majority of local competences in exchange for fi scally consolidating local governments. Th is is labeled as a trade-off between effi ciency and democracy by certain authors. It is a fact that the overdecentralized form of local public administration was ineffi cient and unsustainable. Now there is an opportunity to test whether an overcentralized public administration would be effi cient.

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“…64 Where the communist party was formally dissolved in the transitional process, this sometimes only signaled the untrammeled continuity of dyed-inthe-wool former power-holders under a new name. In Bulgaria, the Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP), successor party of the Communist Party formally dismantled in 1990, has remained dominant in transitional politics, 65 and in Albania, the former communist state party added insult to injury by legislating against a variety of communist and other parties, while the re-branded ruling party remained in power. Far from being directed against the former ruling communist parties, the new party bans targeted their former satellites and current rivals.…”

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Banning the Former Ruling Party

Niesen¹

2012

Constellations

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Purging the past: The Current State of Lustration Laws in the Former Communist Bloc

Cited by 59 publications

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Rethinking Psychiatric Terror against Nationalists in Ukraine: Spatial Dimensions of Post-Stalinist State Violence

Rethinking Psychiatric Terror against Nationalists in Ukraine: Spatial Dimensions of Post-Stalinist State Violence

From Overdecentralization to Overcentralization ? Hungarian Experience in Handling the Crisis at the Local Level

Banning the Former Ruling Party

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