03977nam 2200481 450 991049521520332120220423082636.03-030-76943-7(CKB)4100000011996109(MiAaPQ)EBC6695850(Au-PeEL)EBL6695850(PPN)259467650(EXLCZ)99410000001199610920220423d2021 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe political economy of middle class politics and the global crisis in Eastern Europe the case of Hungary and Romania /Agnes GagyiCham, Switzerland :Palgrave Macmillan,[2021]©20211 online resource (305 pages)International Political Economy Series3-030-76942-9 Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- 1 Social Movements in Eastern Europe: Problems of Understanding Non-Western Contexts -- A Time-Space Bias in Dominant Understandings of Social Movements -- The Return of the Question of Global Political Economy After 2008 -- The "Crisis of Democratic Capitalism" Narrative -- "Civil Society" and "Democratic Capitalism": Two Dominant Concepts in Understanding East European Movements -- "Civil Society" and the "Rectifying Revolution" -- "Civil Society" and "Democratic Capitalism" in Post-2008 East European Mobilizations -- Understanding Social Movements as Part of Global Capitalism -- Labor Struggles in Global Product Cycles -- Antisystemic Movements in a World-Systems Perspective -- What is Crisis in a Global Sense? -- Conclusion -- References -- 2 External Integration as Internal Force: Middle Class Politics and the "Politics of Backwardness" in Eastern Europe -- Dependent Development and the "Politics of Backwardness" -- Middle Classes and Democracy Outside the Western Core -- Middle Class Politics in Eastern Europe -- The Middle Class as Project: An Ideological Notion of Systemic Integration -- The Notion of the Middle Class in Postwar Developmental Debates -- Debates on the Middle Class in the Current Crisis -- Post-2008 Left Critique of the Middle Class Idea -- The Political Consciousness of a Knowledge Class -- Conclusion -- References -- 3 Crisis, Regime Change, Movement: Comparing Mobilization Cycles in Hungarian and Romanian Constellations of Global Integration After 1973 and 2008 -- Socialism, Postsocialism, European Integration: Situated Notions of Systemic Integration -- Late Socialist Regimes of Global Integration-Hungary and Romania After 1973 -- The Hungarian Environmental Movement and Romanian Workers' Mobilizations in Late Socialism.From Postsocialist Development to Middle Class Mobilizations After 2008 -- Conclusion -- References -- 4 Long-Term Middle Class Politics and Contemporary New Left Initiatives in Hungary and Romania -- A New Moment of Intellectual-Political Thought -- New Left Positions in Post-2008 Mobilization Waves -- Left Politics as the Experience of the Self -- Building Substance -- Political Substance in Party Politics -- New Expertise -- Material Self-Organization -- Conclusion -- References -- Conclusion -- Index.International political economy series (Palgrave (Firm))Middle classHungaryHistory20th centuryMiddle classHungaryHistory21st centuryMiddle classRomaniaHistory20th centuryMiddle classHistoryMiddle classHistoryMiddle classHistory305.55209439Gagyi Agnes921259MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910495215203321The Political Economy of Middle Class Politics and the Global Crisis in Eastern Europe2066358UNINA