Newsletter - Social Science in Eastern Europe 2000-1
HUNGARY
OSSZONDA IPSOS Media-, Velemeny- es Piackutato Intezet
Attila ut 93
1012 Budapest
Tel.: +361 488 1800
Fax: +361 488 1801
E-mail: szonda@szondaipsos.hu
Management: Levendel, Adam (chief executive)
Year of foundation: 1990
Staff: 80 full-time employees
Supporting institution: the IPSOS Group
Financing: SZONDA IPSOS is a private research company
raising its funds through commissioned research.
Organization: SZONDA IPSOS is a subsidiary of the IPSOS
Group incorporating market research companies in 14 countries.
Main fields: SZONDA IPSOS' carries out media, opinion,
market and advertising research.
Research: SZONDA IPSOS research activities:
* Marketing and market research;
* Researching consumer behaviour, economic opinion and attitude research;
* Social research;
* Political opinion research;
* Media marketing and planning;
* Surveys on the efficiency of television and radio programmes;
Surveys: monitory and panel surveys, Desk Top surveys (secondary
information analysis), press surveys
Co-operations: Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Ministry of Defence,
Ministry of Industry, UNESCO, Bertelsmann, Axel Springer, IBM, Hungarian Banking
Federation, etc.
Heinrich, Hans-Georg (Ed.). 1999. Institution Building in the New
Democracies. Studies in Post-Post-Communism, Budapest: Collegium Budapest -
Institute for Advanced Studies. -322p.
Table of contents:
* Heinrich, H. G.: Project outline
* Berke. B.: Emergence of supranational EU law. Consequences for
national constitution-building
* Blagojeviæ, M.: Institutions in Serbia: from collapse to what?
* Gills, M.: The Czech Republic: the incipient consultation
* Henrich, H. G.: Towards a cultural theory of transition: the strange
architecture of post-communist societies
* Honig, P.: Principles of Hungarian energy policy and the business
model of the energy sector
* Kornai, J.: Hardening the budget constraint: the experience of
post-socialist economies
* Rüb, F. W.: Selling-off or rebuilding the state: a comparative
framework for analysing the state of state-building
* Szomolanyi, S.: Political elites and the institution-building in
Slovakia
* Tõkes, R.: A tale of three constitutions: elites, institutions and
democracy in Hungary
* Henrich, H. G.: Summary and conclusion
Lonyay u. 34. III. 21
Budapest
1093 Hungary
Tel.: +36 1 217 9041
Fax: +36 1 216 3001
E-mail: mri\mri.hu
Internet: http://www.mri.hu
Management: Hegedüs, Jozsef, Dr.; Tosicis, Ivan, Dr. (managing
directors)
Year of foundation: 1989
Founder members: Jozsef Hegedüs, Ivan Tosics, Gabor Locsmandi
(Budapest Technical University)
Staff: 9 research fellows (sociologists, economists and one
architect).
Financing: The Institute finances itself via grants from international
agencies, contracts from Hungarian municipalities and public agencies.
Main fields: The institute carries out research and offers consultancy
in the fields of local government finance, urban and regional development,
housing policy in Hungary and in Europe. It also organizes conferences and
training programs in Hungary and abroad. The institute cooperates with higher
education institution takes part in their local government finance and housing
policy.
Co-operations: The Institute cooperates with the Urban Institute,
Washington, D.C., and the US Agency for International Development, the World
Bank, UNCHS Habitat, the EU Phare Program, Hungarian Ministry of Finance, the
Ministry of Welfare, Interior Ministry, the Urban Institute of the Budapest
Technical University, the Centre for Regional Research at the Hungarian Academy
of Sciences and others.
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