Newsletter - Social Science in Eastern Europe 2000-1
WESTERN EUROPE
Speder Zsolt (Ed.). 1999. Hungary in Flux. Society, Politics
and Transformation, Hamburg: Krämer. - 254 p.
Hungarians, like other post-communist nations, have been living for ten years
in a society undergoing `transformation', in transition from a socialist system
of social and economic organisation to an institutional system of bourgeois
democracy and a market economy based on private ownership.
This volume deals with this last great transformation at the end of the 20th
century, with the weak links in social integration, the change of elites,
poverty, and the Hungarian state of mind, political thinking, and voter
allegiances. Several articles concern the transformation of the social structure
and the way political behaviour is imbedded in it. Almost every article refers
to the values, attitudes and behaviour of those participating in and
experiencing the transformation, and to the consequences of these attitudes.
Finally, the book examines, through election results, how theses values and
preferences tie in with the political system. So the selection focuses not only
on the transformation of the social structure, but on behavioural
characteristics and relations that are harder to grasp, more volatile and deeper
lying.
The International Social Justice Project (IJSP)
The International Social Justice Project is an international collaborative
research project which has explored popular beliefs and attitudes on social,
economic and political justice through two large-scale opinion surveys fielded
in thirteen countries in 1991 and six countries in 1996. The 1991 survey was
fielded in Russia, Estonia, Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, Slovenia,
Germany (eastern and western), the United States, England, Holland, and Japan.
The 1996 survey, replicating most of the questions from 1991, was fielded in
Russia, Estonia, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Bulgaria and Germany. Results of
the 1991 survey are reported in: "Social Justice and Political Change:
Public Opinion in Capitalist and Post-Communist States", edited by James R.
Kluegel, David S. Mason and Bernd Wegener and published by Aldine deGruyter in
1995. For the contents of this book and for other publications based on the 1991
and 1996 surveys, see http://www.butler.edu/isjp/pub1.html
and http://www.utler.edu/isjp/pub2.html.
The project coordinator is David S. Mason at Butler University, Indianapolis.
The ISJP has been supported by grants from the National Council for Soviet
and East European Research, the National Science Foundation, the Open Society
Institute, and funding agencies in each of the countries involved in the
project.
The 1991 international data set for this project has been deposited with the
Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR; STUDYNO=06705)
at the University of Michigan (http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/archive1.html)
and at the Central Archive in
Cologne, Germany, where it is accessible to German
scholars.
"The Codebook and Methods Documentation for the 1996 Survey" is
available at the University of Illinois (http://www.soc.uiuc.edu/Soc280/ISJP2/index.htm).
Source: http://www.butler.edu/isjp/index.html
Central and Eastern Europe in the 5th Framework Programme of the
EU
To ease the participation of Central and Eastern European scientific
institutions in the EU funds in the 5th framework programme, a
homepage has been created for further information (http://www.dlr.de/MOEL). This includes a
"Partner Search in the Accession States" (PIA) where institutions
offering a partnership for joint research, can list themselves. So far there are
no entries for the social sciences, but institutions from Central, Eastern and
Western Europe are asked to do so.
Funds left from the 4th Framework Programme
Funds from the 4th Framework Programme are still available,
individual scholarships can be applied for. Potential host institutions (PHI)
are listed under http://wwwphil.bg.dir.de/scripts/PhilSearch.ex.
This PHIL-List contains 25 institutions (19 of them in Germany) which offer
research stays for young researchers working in the economic, social or human
sciences. Interested scientists are asked to contact these institutions in order
to apply for individual scholarships).
The printed information on conferences
is an extract from the Internet conference calendar of the GESIS Branch Office.
The calendar is updated every two weeks, it also contains information on events
in the German-speaking area. ]
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