Cover -- Half title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Hungary and the EU in the Political and Scholarly Imagination -- 1. The 2004 Hungarian Paprika Ban -- 2. The 2008 Foie Gras Boycott -- 3. The 2010 Red Mud Spill -- 4. Neoliberalism,...

Paul Kubicek offers a comparative study of organized labor's fate in four postcommunist countries, and examines the political and economic consequences of labor's weakness. He notes that with few exceptions, trade unions have lost members and suffered from low public confidence. Unions have...

Examines the environmental implication of economic deregulation through case studies of the energy, transport and water sectors. The book deals with options for deregulation, looking at self-regulation, negotiated agreements and environmental management systems. Presenting evidence from a number...

Objective: The objective of our article is to analyse students' knowledge, awareness, feelings and attitudes to the energy crisis, in particular, the rising price of electricity in Hungary to test whether students are aware of their electricity consumption and influenced by the opinion of their...

This study focuses on changes in the length of paid parental leave in Austria, France and Hungary between the 1960s and the first decade of the 2000s. Its aim is to analyse to what extent extensions and reductions of the duration of paid parental leave affect mothers' labour market entry after...