The Fall and Rise of the State in Rural Romania and Hungary
CPS Research Fellow Andrew Cartwright published and article in MARTOR, The Museum of the Romanian Peasant Anthropology Review.
The Fall and Rise of the State in Rural Romania and Hungary
(No. 19/2014:63)
Abstract
This article argues that whilst demographic fluctuations and land privatisation raised concerns that the state had little influence over rural affairs in Central and Eastern Europe, recently, there have been signs of a more assertive and interventionist state. Focusing on policies that address the realities of an aging farming and rural population, this paper argues that the return of the state recognizes that land no longer offers the same degree of security and that the transformation into a mixed and prosperous rural sector would require more direct action than suggested by the EU policy.
Keywords
Post-socialist states; agrarian policy; rural populations; demographic changes; state intervention