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As recent experiences easily demonstrate, the challenges of executing transformations to democratic governments and market-based economies are enormous. Much more than good intentions is needed. Preceding chapters have analyzed developments in Central and Eastern Europe during this turbulent period. This chapter adds to the foregoing investigations by examining the privatization process during 1989–1993 in Hungary, with an emphasis on ‘implementation’: the issue of what happens between the pronouncement of public policy and its impact on the world of action.
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O’Toole, L.J. (1994). Privatization in Hungary: Implementation Issues and Local Government Complications. In: Blommestein, H.J., Steunenberg, B. (eds) Government and Markets. International Studies in Economics and Econometrics, vol 32. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8366-4_9
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