Derangement or Development? Political Economy of EU Structural Funds Allocation: Insights from the Hungarian Case
February 3, 2009
A new one-year research project investigating EU structural funds in Hungary was launched in January at CPS.
The research project is an attempt to reveal some insights on the interaction of political and economic aspects in Hungarian development policy and multi-level government financing mechanisms. By looking at the programming and allocation of regional development funds to municipalities/small regions (Nuts4) through the Regional Operational Program of EU Structural Funds in Hungary for 2004-2008.
The project addresses two distinct but related questions: who are the winners, what is behind successful applications (institutional aspects); if and how such development programs and financing mechanisms are influenced by political factors?