The Political Discourse of Spatial Disparities

Gyuris, Ferenc

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“…As a result, public services and infrastructure rapidly declined in many small villages during the 1970s (see Fig. 6.7) (Gyuris, 2014a). The total number of primary schools nationwide also dropped from above 6000 to nearly 4200 in a period of only 10 years (see Fig.…”

Section: Non-stalinist Communism After 1956 and The "Rationalization"mentioning

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“…Moreover, given the considerable economic handicap of the Eastern Bloc compared to the United States and its allies, the system fundamentally focused on investing as many resources as possible in economic growth and modernization. The outcome was that Communist regimes tended to notoriously underfinance sectors and occupations considered to be "nonproductive" in the narrow material sense, such as those based on nonmanual work (Gyuris, 2014a). Besides, all prominent Stalinist politicians regarded centralization, or "democratic centralism" in the Leninist vocabulary, as an essential prerequisite for efficient control, orderliness, and economies of scale.…”

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Ideology, Spatial Planning, and Rural Schools: From Interwar to Communist Hungary

Gyuris

2019

Knowledge and Space

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The author of this paper investigates the impact of political ideologies on spatial planning and the school network, especially small schools in small settlements, in twentieth century Hungary. After WWI and the resulting vast territorial losses, the interwar nationalist-conservative regime considered the country’s cultural advantage over its neighbors as a crucial prerequisite for territorial revision and launched large-scale school development projects. In the 1930s, these initiatives became increasingly exposed to political centralization and ethnopolitical attempts. The first years after WWII witnessed the restoration of war destruction and some institutional reforms, before the post-1948 Stalinist dictatorship targeted a radical demolition of small settlements and their schools now considered as “uneconomic.” Although succeeding non-Stalinist leaderships took a more tolerant stance, their attempts of limited decentralization led to regional administrative organs exploiting their own periphery, resulting in a mass closure of rural schools in the 1970s under the motto of “rationalization.”

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Section: Non-stalinist Communism After 1956 and The "Rationalization"mentioning

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Ideology, Spatial Planning, and Rural Schools: From Interwar to Communist Hungary

Gyuris

2019

Knowledge and Space

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“…For instance, Smith (1974) expanded a discussion about political power to include the spatial dimension: 'who gets what, where and how?' In accordance with the initial assumptions that every point in space differs from all other points in space and that inequality will forever be the result of asymmetrical power relations, it is only natural to expect that competition over land ownership is far from over (Gyuris, 2016).…”

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Merging, disaggregating and clustering local authorities: do structural reforms affect perceptions about local governance and democracy?

Beeri

Zaidan

2021

Territory, Politics, Governance

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There is increasing pressure on local authorities to restructure themselves to meet current expectations from the public. Multilevel governance has emerged as one method for such restructuring. Using the results of a survey conducted among 1733 residents of local authorities in Israel, we explore the effects of three specific multilevel governance reformsthe merging, disaggregation and clustering of local government authorities on residents' assessments about local governance and democracy. Our findings underscore the importance of public support for the structural reform. Those who become involved in soft reforms involving bottom-up groups and voluntary coalitions that cluster together are more likely to trust their local authority, feel it responds to their needs satisfactorily and listens to them. However, the more support they express, the more their perceptions are attenuated. In contrast, residents of local authorities that amalgamated with other communities that then went through hard reforms, such as merging and disaggregation involving up-scaling and top-down reforms, had fewer positive opinions about these issues. Only residents who strongly favoured the merger had positive perceptions about local governability and participation in decision-making and were satisfied with local services and trusted the local government. We discuss these findings and draw conclusions about their implications for local structural reforms in an era of local and regional governance.

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“…. Gyuris (2014) shows how Marxist thinkers frequently emphasized that their findings were "scientific," "objective," and factual (p. 115) and that they branded the ideas of their political rivals as politically biased and unscientific. It has been defined as "the systematic collection and analysis of data; development of technology; testing of natural phenomena; and the dissemination of these activities by researchers on a primarily avocational basis" ("Finalizing," 2011).…”

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Geographies of Knowledge and Power

Marynen¹,

Gregory²,

Suarsana³

2015

Knowledge and Space

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Knowledge and SpaceThis book series entitled "Knowledge and Space" is dedicated to topics dealing with the production, dissemination, spatial distribution, and application of knowledge. Recent work on the spatial dimension of knowledge, education, and science; learning organizations; and creative milieus has underlined the importance of spatial disparities and local contexts in the creation, legitimation, diffusion, and application of new knowledge. These studies have shown that spatial disparities in knowledge and creativity are not short-term transitional events but rather a fundamental structural element of society and the economy.The volumes in the series on Knowledge and Space cover a broad range of topics relevant to all disciplines in the humanities and social sciences focusing on knowledge, intellectual capital, and human capital: clashes of knowledge; milieus of creativity; geographies of science; cultural memories; knowledge and the economy; learning organizations; knowledge and power; ethnic and cultural dimensions of knowledge; knowledge and action; and the spatial mobility of knowledge. These topics are analyzed and discussed by scholars from a range of disciplines, schools of thought, and academic cultures. Knowledge and Space is the outcome of an agreement concluded by the Klaus Tschira Foundation and Springer in 2006More information about this series at

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The Political Discourse of Spatial Disparities

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