EPRC Seminar: Going NUTS? Europeanization, Legacies and the Politics of Developmentalism in Hungary

On 7 September, EPRC hosted a seminar by Dr. Umut Korkut from Glasgow Caledonian University. Umut's presentation, based on research carried out jointly with Áron Buzogány from the German Research Institute for Public Administration Speyer, assessed the interaction of Europeanisation processes and domestic policy traditions and agendas on the evolution of regional policy in Hungary. Drawing on theories of Europeanisation, new regionalism and the 'developmental state', processes of centralisation in regional policy design and delivery are explained by the domestic political context and the historical narratives of developmentalism of the conservative and leftist liberal parties. The link to the paper is available http://www.eprc.strath.ac.uk/eprc/documents/PDF_files/Umut_Korkut.pdf.