Eastern Enlargement - Western Enlargement: Cultural Encounters in the European Economy and Society After the Accession (DIOSCURI)

Principal Investigator: 
Violetta Zentai
Researcher: 
Andor Daroczi
Tamas Dombos
Eva Kovacs
Janos Matyas Kovacs
Katalin Kovacs
Tibor Mester
Kata Racz
Gyongyi Schwarz
Sara Svensson
Linda Szabo
Balazs Varadi
Zsuzsanna Vidra
Duration: 
June, 2004 to May, 2007
Funding: 
European Commission 6th Framework Program Specific Targeted Research Project
Partner: 
Institute for Human Sciences
Institute of Public Affairs
Centre for Theoretical Sociology
Centre for Advanced Study Foundation
Center for Public Policies
Institute of Social Sciences Ivo Pilar
Department of Sociology, Masarykova University
Host unit: 
Center for Policy Studies (CPS)
Academic Area: 
Governance and Participation
Social Policy and Welfare Regimes

Invoking the mythological figures Castor and Pollux, DIOSCURI focused on current encounters in Europe to predict the ways of cohabitation between the twin economic cultures of the "East" and the "West". The research fields - entrepreneurship, governance and economic knowledge - were explored in four East-Central European countries (the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovenia) and in four countries of South-Eastern Europe (Bulgaria, Croatia, Romania and Serbia/Montenegro).

Final publication: Capitalism from Outside? Economic Cultures in Eastern Europe after 1989

Link: 
DIOSCURI website

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