CEU Faculty Publications

The following is a list of recent publications by CEU faculty. It is provided to showcase the breadth of research being conducted at CEU. Abstracts and Internet links are provided when available.

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Alexander Astrov

Alexander Astrov, On World Politics: R.G. Collingwood, Michael
Oakeshott and Neotraditionalism in International Relations
(London:
Palgrave Macmillan, 2005).

Abstract
This book outlines an idea of world politics as an activity of thinking
and speaking about the conditions of world order. World order is
understood not as an arrangement of entities but a complex of variously
situated activities conducted by individuals as members of diverse
associations of their own. Within contemporary International Relations
it entails a theoretical position, neotraditionalism, as a reformulation
of the initial 'traditionalist' approach in the wake of rationalism and
subsequent reflectivist critique.

Internet
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/140394654X/qid%3D1114604381/202-
3362872-5822202

Aziz Al-Azmeh

Aziz Al-Azmeh and Janos Bak (eds.), Monotheistic Kingship, The Medieval Variants, Budapest, Central European University Department of Medieval Studies and Pasts Inc., 2004.

A. Al-Azmeh, "Monotheistic Kingship", in the above, pp. 9-30

B

Agnes Batory

Attitudes to Europe: The Politics of EU Accession in Hungary. Manchester University Press, 2006 (forthcoming).

Parties and Voters in European Parliament Elections, with Gabor Toka (eds). Hungarian language edition, 2006, DKMKA (Foundation for Democracy Research Centre of Hungary Press), Budapest (forthcoming).

'Euroscepticism in the Hungarian party system', In: Paul Taggart & Aleks Szczerbiak (eds.), Opposing Europe? The Comparative Party Politics of Euroscepticism: Volume 1: Case Studies and Country Surveys, Oxford University Press, 2006 (forthcoming).

'Protectionism, populism or participation? Agrarian parties and the European question in Western and Central Europe', with Nick Sitter. In: Paul Taggart and Aleks Szczerbiak (eds.) Opposing Europe? The Comparative Party Politics of Euroscepticism: Volume 2: Comparative and Theoretical Perspectives, Oxford University Press, 2006 (forthcoming).

'Hungary', in Juliet Lodge (ed), The 2004 Elections to the European Parliament, Basingstoke/New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.

'Cleavages, competition, and coalition-building: Agrarian parties and the European question in Western and Eastern Europe', with Nick Sitter, European Journal of Political Research Vol. 43, No. 4 (2004): pp523-546.

'Legal implications of EU enlargement', Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House) Briefing Paper, May 2003.

C

Andrew Cartwright

'Private Farming in Romania or What Are the Old People Going to Do with Their Land?' in C. Hann (ed.) The Postsocialist Agrarian Question, MPI Halle, 2003

'Finding Farmers': Vital for Policy-Makers but Politically Inexpedient', with Nigel Swain in Eastern European Countryside, 2003,9.


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John Earle

Earle, John Sutherland, Csaba Kucsera and Almos Telegdy (2005), "Ownership Concentration and Corporate Performance on the Budapest Stock Exchange: Do Too Many Cooks Spoil the Goulash?" Corporate Governance: An International Journal, 13/2: 254-264.

Abstract
We examine the impact of ownership concentration on firm performance using panel data for firms listed on the Budapest Stock Exchange, where ownership tends to be highly concentrated and frequently involves multiple blocks. Fixed-effects estimates imply that the largest block increases returns-to-assets and operating efficiency strongly and monotonically, but the effects of total blockholdings are much smaller and statistically insignificant. Controlling for the size of the largest block, point estimates of the marginal effects of additional blocks are negative. The results suggest that the marginal costs of concentration may outweigh the benefits when the increased concentration involves “too many cooks.”

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Katalin Farkas

Katalin Farkas, "The unity of Descartes's thought", History of Philosophy Quarterly 22/1 (January 2005) 17-30.

Abstract
One of the central tenets of Descartes's philosophy is dualism: that everything in the world can be divided into thinking substances (or minds) and their properties on the one hand, and corporeal substances (bodies) and their properties on the other hand. It is therefore puzzling that on a number of occasions, Descartes seems to suggest that certain phenomena - including perceptions, sensations, emotions, called the 'special modes' - belong to neither mind nor body alone, but specifically to the union of the two. It has been suggested that in the light of these claims, we should regard Descartes as a 'trialist' rather than a dualist. In the paper, I criticise the 'trialist' interpretation, and I offer an explanation of the theory of the special modes which reveals it to be perfectly compatible with Descartes's dualism.

Alex Fischer

Die Auswirkungen der Internationalisierung und Europäisierung auf Schweizer Entscheidungsprozesse. Institutionen, Kräfteverhältnisse und Akteursstrategien in Bewegung, Zürich and Chur: Rüegger, 2005.

More information: http://www.rueggerverlag.ch/, http://www.idheap.ch

"Unabhängige Regulierungsinstanzen als parallele Institutionen. Die Auseinandersetzung um die Entbündelungsverpflichtung auf der letzten Meile in der Schweizer Telekommunikations-politik", Swiss Political Science Review (2005, forthcoming).

Abstract
This article analyzes the impact of the development of independent regulatory agencies (IRA) on the political decision-making process. Relying on the literature on institutional redundancy, this contribution interprets IRA’s as institutions parallel to the traditional law-making process. When both the IRA and the institutions of the classic legislative process are competent in a policy domain, reformers are free to choose between the two procedures and they thus still have a second chance after a defeat in a first attempt. On the basis of an empirical example - the conflict on the unbundling of the local loop - this article studies the resulting interactions by resorting to a simple game theoretical model. As shown in this contribution, parallel institutions constitute an advantage for reformers provided that both institutions decide independently from each other. If this is not the case, the order of sequences of the parallel procedures is of crucial importance. Given that reformers can choose this order, they benefit from a first-mover advantage. Moreover, on the empirical level, this contribution shows that the existence of several parallel procedures combined with several veto points within this process may lead to ongoing uncertainty about the outcome of the entire reform process.


"How Europe hits home: Evidence from the Swiss case", Journal of European Public Policy, 11(3): 353-378 (together with Sarah Nicolet und Pascal Sciarini).

Abstract
This article contributes to the debate on the domestic consequences of European integration by focusing on three aspects often neglected in the literature. First, while most works deal with the policy dimension of Europeanisation, we develop a set of research hypotheses on its polity and politics implications. Its consequences on the institutions of the decision-making process, on elite conflictuality and on domestic power configuration are examined. Secondly, close attention is paid to the transmission mechanisms at work by comparing the effects of “direct” and “indirect” Europeanisation to a control case where European influences are only minimal. Thirdly, we provide empirical evidence from a non-EU member country (Switzerland), a type of state for which the consequences of Europeanisation are still little explored. Based on a quantitative network analysis, our empirical tests reveal some important differences in the effects of direct and indirect Europeanisation.

Linda Fisher

Feministische Phänomenologie und Hermeneutik, co-edited with S. Stoller and V. Vasterling. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2005.

"Merleau-Ponty's Hermeneutics of Philosophical Engagement," Chiasmi International 6 (2005). Trilingual Studies Concerning Merleau-Ponty's Thought: 173-190.

"Multiculturalism, Gender and Cultural Identities," European Journal of Women's Studies, Vol. 11 (1), 2004: 111-119.

"Heidegger's Hermeneutic Circle," in Eidos 25th Anniversary Issue, Vol. XVII, No. 2 (June 2003): 99-111. (Reprint with updated introduction of "Heidegger's Hermeneutic Circle," Eidos Vol. XI, 1 & 2.)

"What is a 'European'? Reflections on European Identity and 'Visions of Europe' in the context of EU-Enlargement," in Overcoming Boundaries. The EU-Enlargement Process and Visions of Europe from a Women's Perspective, ed. by Frauenakademie München, Munich, 2003: 131-135.

"Play, Art, and the Question of Otherness," in Kunst, Hermeneutik, Philosophie. Das Denken Hans-Georg Gadamers im Zusammenhang des 20. Jahrhunderts, ed. István M. Fehér. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2003: 175-182.

"La phénoménologie féministe de Beauvoir," in Cinquantenaire du Deuxième sexe, ed. Christine Delphy and Sylvie Chaperon. Paris: Éditions Syllepse, 2002: 130-138.

"The Character of Sexual Difference," in Wissen Macht Geschlecht/Knowledge Power Gender: Philosophie und die Zukunft der "condition féminine", ed. Birgit Christensen et. al. Zürich: Chronos Verlag, 2002: 687-695.

"Opera and the Musical Semiotics of Gender," European Journal for Semiotic Studies/Revue Européenne d'Études Sémiotiques/Europäische Zeitschrift für Semiotische Studien, Vol. 13 (3-4), 2001: 645-659.

"Der fundamentale Charakter der sexuellen Differenz," in Verhandlungen des Geschlechts. Zur Konstruktivismusdebatte in der Gender-Theorie, ed. Eva Waniek and Silvia Stoller. Wien: Turia + Kant, 2001: 219-237.

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Marie-Pierre Granger

‘The Community Judicial System at the Dawn of the Third Millenium: A Revolution or a Simple Face-lift?’, (2002) 34 Bracton Law Journal 7-34.

‘Standing for the Judicial Review of Community Normative acts: Closing Pandora’s box?’ C- 50/00 Union de Pequenos Agricultores (UPA) v Council of the European Union (2002) 11 Nottingham Law Journal 60-66

‘Towards a liberalisation of standing conditions for individuals seeking judicial review of Community acts: Jégo-Quéré et Cie SA v Commission and Unión de Pequeños Agricultores v Council’ (2003) 66 Modern Law Review 124-138

‘Judicial Review of Community Acts: Standing for the protection of environmental interests - The state of the law after Jégo-Quére and UPA’ (2003) 5 Environmental Law Review 45-66

‘When governments go to Luxembourg…: the influence of governments on the European Court of Justice’ (2004) 299 European Law Review 1-31

‘The future of Europe: judicial interference and preferences’, (2005) 3 Comparative European Politics 155-179.

George Guess

“Comparative Decentralization Lessons from Pakistan, Indonesia and the Philippines”, Public Administration Review (March/April, 2005).

“Planning, Budgeting and Health Care Performance in Ukraine” with Stojgniew J. Sitko, International Journal of Public Administration, 27 (10): 767-798 (2004).

H

Carol Harrington

Carol Harrington, 2005 ‘The Politics of Rescue: Peacekeeping and Anti-trafficking Programs in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Kosovo.’ International Feminist Journal of Politics. 7 (2) June.

Abstract
In December 2002 the UN adopted a definition of 'trafficking' that critics worry discounts female agency in commercial sex and migration. This definition was already being used in BiH and Kosovo to tackle the violent sex industry that had developed alongside peacekeeping. This paper analyses official assumptions about female agency in commercial sex when 'victims of trafficking' (VoTs) are identified in BiH and Kosovo. In this context the Protocol definition helped extend access to resources to women and girls who could otherwise have been excluded. Those who had 'been abroad' before were no longer automatically rejected from VoT programs but pathologised as sufferers of post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD); their illness establishing their 'innocence'. Understanding the choice of migration for sex work as a symptom of PTSD allows anti-trafficking programs to focus on victim rather than perpetrator behaviour. Strong pressures against tackling the way soldiers, police and contractors treat women and girls in the sex industry underlie this focus on victim behaviour. Those in the sex industry who are not 'foreign' or do not want to go 'home' are excluded from VoT status while anti-trafficking activity increases their risk of arrest, thus reifying the categories of innocent VoT and guilty prostitute.

K

Don Kalb

Don Kalb, "From Flows to Violence: Politics and Knowledge in the Debates on Globalization and Empire", Anthropological Theory, no. 2, vol. 5, pp. 177-205, 2005

Don Kalb and Herman Tak (eds.), Critical Junctions: Anthropology and History beyond the Cultural Turn, (New York and Oxford; Berghahn Books), 2005

Andrea Krizsan

"Ombudsman and Similar Institutions for Protection against Racial and Ethnic Discrimination" In: European Yearbook of Minority Issues, 2006. Forthcoming in February 2006.

"Gender Equality Policy or Gender Mainstreaming: the case of Hungary. Gender policies in Hungary on the road to an enlarged Europe" , with Violetta Zentai, Policy Studies, 2006/2. Forthcoming in May 2006.

“Domestic Violence: whose problem? Policies Addressing Domestic Violence in Hungary, the Netherlands and the EU,” with Marjolein Paantjens, Ilse van Lamoen, Greek Review of Social Research, Vol. 117, No. B, 2005.

“Equal Opportunities for Women and Men in Hungary”, with Eniko Papp. In: Equal Opportunities for Women and Men. Monitoring Law and Practice in New Member States and Accession Countries of the European Union. Open Society Institute: 2005.

Ombudsman Institutions and Minority Issues. Foundational Criteria, Strategic Development, and Operational Issues, Marnie Lloyd (ed). Contributors: Robert Dunbar, Dzenana Hadzimirovic, Kristin Henrard, Andrea Krizsan, Birgit Kofod Olsen and Alan Philips. European Center for Minority Issues, Flensburg, Germany: 2005.

"From civil society development to policy research" with Violetta Zentai. In: Stone, D. and Maxwell, S. (eds), Global Knowledge Networks and International Development. Routledge, 2005.

Reshaping Globalization. Multilateral Dialogues and New Policy Initiatives, with Violetta Zentai (eds). CPS-CEU Press, Budapest, 2003.


 

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Stefan Messmann

Enforcement of Contracts in Central and Eastern Europe - A General Survey; in: Andenes, Mads and Sanders, Gerar (eds.), Enforcing Contracts in Transition Economies, London 2005, p. 21-33

Enforcement of Contracts in Central and Eastern Europe, in: Jingji Shehui Bijiao (Journal of Comparative Economic & Social Systems) Issue 2005.2, p. 23-30 (in Chinese)

Kehila Kaifenban (Kehila in Kaifeng); in: Múlt és a Jövo - Zsidó kulturális folyóirat, 2005-1., 106-119. P. (in Hungarian)

Drei Zoll Goldlilie - aber wozu? In: Agazzi, Elena/Kocziszka, Eva, Der fragile Körper. Zwischen Fragmentierung und Ganzheitsanspruch, unipress Göttingen 2005, p. 267-293

Stefan Messmann & Tibor Tajti (eds.), INVESTING IN SOUTH EASTERN EUROPE - Foreign Direct Investment in the Stability Pact Countries (European University Press, Bochum, 2005) (Two volumes/1004 pages).

Abstract

Footbinding in China was a curious phenomenon in which many questions remain unanswered today: When did it start? What was its purpose? And how did footbinding change it significance in the course of centuries ?

According to Chinese sources, it was the 2nd emperor of the late Tang Dynasty in the 10th century and one of the greatest Chinese poets of love poems, Li Yü (937-978) who introduced the footbinding to the imperial court and made it known by his poems.

After feetbinding was introduced as beauty ideal, the bound feet became the center of sexual desire of men. Birge, Lin Yutang and Jackson believed that footbinding had its roots "without any doubts" in sexuality. On the other hand according to Dorothy Ko, footbinding had threefolds of meaning for the male elite in the 17th century China: it was the expression of the Chinese courtesy, the delimitation against foreign invaders and - so to say a by-product of the aforesaid - a corporal attire. However, the overwhelming opinion of the writer is that men intended - under the excuse of neoconfucian idea of chastity - to keep women under their control by binding their feet. Though Dorothy Ko called this opinion "anachronistic', all other reasons seem to indicate that footbinding would not be possible without active cooperation of men . Therefore the very strong supposition remains that in the end the footbinding served above all one purpose in reality - to keep women under control.

Krüppelfüßchen der Chinesinnen - Sinnlichkeit oder männliche Dominanz? Europäischer Universitätsverlag Bochum 2005, 166 p.

 

Gheorghe Morosanu

Gheorghe Morosanu, First order asymptotic expansion for a singularly perturbed, coupled parabolic-parabolic problem, Nonlinear Funct. Anal. Appl. 10 (2004), No. 1, 99-116 (with L. Barbu and J.K. Kim).

Gheorghe Morosanu, On some mathematical modelling of the MPD self-thrusters, ZAMM 84 (2004), No. 9, 598-631 (with C. Coclici, J.Heiermann, and W.L. Wendland).

Gheorghe Morosanu, On a singularly perturbed, coupled parabolic-parabolic problem, Asymptotic Analysis 40 (2004), No. 1, 67-81 (with L. Barbu).

Gheorghe Morosanu, Stability for a damped nonlinear oscillator, Nonlinear Analysis 60 (2005), 303-310 (with C. Vladimirescu).

Gheorghe Morosanu, Stability for a nonlinear second order ODE, Funkcialaj Ekvacioj 48 (2005), 49-56 (with C. Vladimirescu).

Gheorghe Morosanu, Mountain pass type solutions for discontinuous perturbations of the vector p-Laplacian, Nonlinear Funct. Anal. Appl., to appear (with Petru Jebelean).

Gheorghe Morosanu, Ordinary p-Laplacian systems with nonlinear boundary conditions, J. Math. Anal. Appl., to appear (with P. Jebelean).

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Uwe Puetter

The Eurogroup. How a secretive circle of finance ministers shape European
economic governance, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2006 (in
press).

Regieren in der Euro-Zone und die wirtschaftspolitische Koordination in der
erweiterten Union - warum die Stärkung deliberativer Entscheidungsprozesse
wichtig ist, in: Bos, Ellen/ Dieringer, Jürgen (eds.): "Die Europäische
Union nach der Osterweiterung. Die Genese einer Union der 25", Wiesbaden: VS
Verlag 2006 (in press).

Governing informally: The role of the Eurogroup, in: Journal of European
Public Policy, Vol. 11, No.5, 2004.

Informal circles of ministers - A way out of the EU's institutional
dilemmas?, in: European Law Journal, Vol. 9, No. 1, 2003.

The informal Eurogroup: a new working method and an institutional
compromise, in: Constitutionalism Web-Papers, No. 2/2001, Available online
on the website of Queen's University Belfast.

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Paul Roe

Paul Roe, Ethnic Violence and the Societal Security Dilemma, Routledge, 2004.

Abstract: 
Ethnic Violence and the Societal Security Dilemma explores how the phenomenon of ethnic violence can be understood as a form of security dilemma by shifting the focus of the concept away from its traditional concern with state sovereignty to that of identity instead. The book includes case studies on:

  • ethnic violence between Serbs and Croats in the Krajina region of Croatia, August 1990
  • ethnic violence between Hungarian and Romanians in the Transylvania region of Romania, March 1990.

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Andras Sajo

Judicial Integrity, in A. Sajo (ed.), Leiden, Boston: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, (2004).

Freedom of Expression, Warszawa: Instytut Spraw Publicznych (2004),
also in Russian, Szvoda Szlova, Warszawa: Instytut Spraw Publicznych (2004).

Human Rights with Modesty: The Problem of Universalism, in A. Sajo (ed.),
Leiden, Boston: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, (2004).

“Internet-demokrácia?” [Internet Democracy?] in Majtényi L., Molnár P.,
Petri Lukács Á., Szabó M. D. (eds.) Az Elektronikus Információszabadság,
[The Electronic Freedom of Information] Budapest: Eötvös Károly Intézet (2005) 335-354.

“… A faji gyulölet igazolása büntetendo”, […The Justification of Racial
Hatred is to be Sanctioned] 4 Fundamentum (2004) 21-36.

“Legal Consequences of Past Collective Wrongdoing after Communism”,
6 German Law Journal 2 (1 February 2005).
http://www.germanlawjournal.com/article.php?id=566

“Ésszeruség és büntetés”, [Rationality and Punishment] in M. Hitseker
and Zs. Szilágyi (eds.), Mindentudás Egyeteme, [University of Universal
Knowledge, Public discussion series] Budapest, Kossuth Kiadó (2004) 143-154.

“Rasszista nézetek büntetésének alkotmányosságáról” [On the Constitutionality
of Sanctioning Racist Views], in B. Gellér (ed.), Györgyi Kálmán Ünnepi Kötet [In Honor of Kálmán Györgyi], Budapest: ELTE ÁJK (2004) 479-510.

“Miért nehéz tantárgy az együttmuködo alkotmányosság?” [Why is Cooperative
Constitutionalism a Difficult Subject?] 3 Fundamentum (2004) 89-96.

“Szamozascsita Konsztitucionnovo Goszudarsztva” [Self-defense of Constitutional
government], 2 Konstitutsionnoie Pravo [Constitutional Law] (2004) 2-10.

„Social Rights: A Wide Agenda”, 1 European Constitutional Law Review (2005) 38-43.

Abstract:
There is considerable flexibility in the use of the term ‘social rights’.
The list of such rights varies in international documents, and it is difficult
to find a common denominator or ground for classification for what are called
social rights. A further standard problem is that not all social rights have
the legal nature of more traditional civil and political rights. Social rights
entail claims that are neither necessarily individual nor necessarily enforceable
in court, at least not in the sense that they will result in remedies available
to identifiable rights holders. Hereinafter, social rights refer to rights that
are related to social status, including status rights that are applicable to
the economic sphere (rights related to work are often discussed as economic
rights, i.e., rights in the economy). Such status rights might apply to all
in a given circumstance (e.g., a social subsistence minimum that applies to
all who are in need) or they might be specific. In the latter case, the social
status is related to a condition that one cannot change voluntarily, at least
not in the short run (e.g., motherhood, or being a child, an orphan, or handicapped).

Internet
http://journals.cambridge.org/...

“Az emberi jogok mint tudásrendszer”, [Human Rights as a Knowledge System]
1-2 Állam- és Jogtudomány (2004) 3-38.

“Bevezeto feltevések a magyar jogi és jogtudományi recepció és kreativitás
természetérol”, [Introductory Remarks on the Nature of the Reception and
Creativity of Hungarian Law and Legal Science] in A. Sajo (ed.), Befogadás
és eredetiség a jogban és a jogtudományban [Reception and Originality in
Law and Legal Science], Budapest: Áron Kiadó (2004) 7-13.

“A tudásrendszer problémája az emberi jogokban”, [Problems of Knowledge
System in Human Rights] in A. Sajo (ed.), Befogadás és eredetiség a jogban
és a jogtudományban, Budapest: Áron Kiadó (2004) 175-215.

“Accession’s Impact on Constitutionalism in the New Member States,”
in G. Berman, K Pistor (eds.), Law and Governance in an Enlarged Europe,
Oxford: Hart (2004) 415-435.

“Learning Co-operative Constitutionalism the Hard Way: the Hungarian
Constitutional Court Shying Away from EU Supremacy”, 3 Zeitschrift für
Staats- und Europawissenschaften, (2004) 351-371.

“A demokrácia és a bürokrácia hálózatai”, [Networks of Democracy and Bureaucracy]
in L. Majtényi, Z. Miklósi (eds.), És mi lesz az alkotmánnyal? [And how about
the Constitution?], Budapest, Eötvös Károly Intézet (2004), 156-158.

“Neutral Institutions: Implications for Government Trustworthiness in East
European Democracies”, in J. Kornai, S. Rose-Ackerman (eds.), Building a
Trustworthy State in Post-Socialist Transition, New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2004) 29-51.

“Universalism with Humility - an Introduction”, in A. Sajo (ed.), Human Rights
with Modesty: The Problem of Universalism, Leiden, Boston: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers (2004), 1-32.

“Learning Co-operative Constitutionalism the Hard Way: the Hungarian
Constitutional Court Shying Away from EU Supremacy”, (2nd edition),
2 Studi Parmensi, CEDAM (2004)171-192.

Judit Sandor

Sándor, Judit (ed.) [2003] Society and Genetic Information. Codes and Laws in the Genetic Era, Budapest: CEU Press, Budapest-New York. pp.5-422
Sándor, Judit (2003) Medical Law. Hungary. International Encyclopaedia of Laws, The Hague, London, New York: Kluwer Law International, 2003, The Hague, London, New York, pp. 1-148

Andre den Exter and Sándor, Judit [2003] Frontiers of the European Health Care Law: A Multidisciplinary Approach. Rotterdam: Erasmus University Press, Rotterdam. ISBN 90-807487-2-2 pp ii.-219. Introduction is written by the editors. Including a chapter: Judit Sándor, Data protection in Health Care. Beyond Biomedical Use. pp.76-96

Sándor, Judit (2005) "Reproduction and Genetics; Pragmatic and Moral Elements in the Hungarian Biomedical Law" In: Yearbook of European Medical Law, Institute of Medical Law, Liding? ISBN 91-7864-194-2

Sándor, Judit (2005) "Research Ethics Committees in Hungary" in: Deryck Beyleveld, David Townend, Jessica Wright 'Research Ethics Committees, Data Protection and Medical Research in European Countries Ashgate, Aldershot, 2005 pp. 93-107

Sándor, Judit (2004) "Protection of Health Care Data in Hungarian Law" in: Deryck Beyleveld, David Townend, Ségolène Rouillé-Mirza, Jessica Wright' Implementation of the Data Protection Directive in Relation to Medical research in Europe Ashgate, Aldershot, 2004 pp. 157-175

Sándor, Judit (2004) "Cells tissues, and health care data" in: André den Exter (ed) "EU Accession and its Consequences for Candidate Countries' Health Systems" Erasmus University Press, Rotterdam, 2004. pp. 57-71

Sándor, Judit (2003), "Protecting Patients' rights? A Comparative Study of the Ombudsman in healthcare " in: Lars Fallberg (ed) Ombudsman in the Health Care Sector, Radcliffe Medical Press, 2003

Sándor, Judit (2002), "Genetic Data: Old and New Challenges for Data Protection" in: Glasa, J. (Ed.) Ethics in Human Genetics: Challenges of the (Post)Genomic Era Charis - IMEB Fdn., Bratislava, 2002, pp. 89-99.

Sándor, Judit (2000),"The Hungarian Legislative Approach to Assisted Procreation: An Attempt at Transparency" in: Jennifer Gunning (ed)" Assisted Conception" Ashgate, Dartmouth pp. 139- 153

Sándor, Judit (2006) Bioetika és emberi jogok, az emberi jogok, új generációja? " in: Acta Humana 2006. 17. Vol./1. pp. 17-29. ("Bioethics and Human Rights: Towards a New Generation of Human Rights? ")

Sándor, Judit (2006) "A test halhatatlansága -Bioetikai és jogi dilemmák a XXI. században- in: Fundamentum 2006. 1. szám pp. 32- 45

Sándor, Judit (2005) "A terápiától a szelekcióig: Jogi és etikai viták a reprodukciós beavatkozások új módszereir?l" in Acta Humana 16. évf. 2005. 4. szám pp. 3-20 ( in Hungarian)

Sándor, Judit (2003) "Society and Genetic Information: Contemporary Challenges in Biomedical Law" pp. 12-30. In: Ethics, Science and Society, Bioethics Consultative Committee, Malta

Sándor, Judit (2003) " A genetikai adatok védelme" in: Acta Humana 2003. 3. pp.3-21. (in Hungarian)

Sándor, Judit (2002) "Reproduction, Self, and State" in: Social Research, Vol. 69, No.1 ( Spring 2002) pp.115-142

Sándor, Judit (2002) "Genomika és jog" in: Magyar Tudomány, (Journal of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences), 2002 pp. 616- 626

Carsten Schneider

Schneider, Carsten Q/ Schmitter, Philippe C. (2004): "Liberalization, Transition and Consolidation. Measuring the Components of Democratization", in: Democratization, Vol. 11, No. 5 (special issue), pp. 59-90.

Abstract:
This article measures the process of democratization by subdividing it into three components: the liberalization of autocracy, the mode of transition and the consolidation of democracy. The 30 or so countries included in the study are situated in different world regions, mainly southern and eastern Europe, south and central America and the former Soviet Union - all of which have experienced regime transitions since 1974. The study also includes a sample of countries from the Middle East and northern Africa that are, at best, only in an embryonic stage of liberalization. Measured by scalograms, the data provide comparative indicators of the progress each country has achieved over the period 1974-2000. The study tests this time series for 'patterns', guided by the hypothesis that the multiple dimensions of liberalization, transition and consolidation are consistently related to each other, both temporally and spatially. The findings indicate a single underlying dimensional structure to the data. This allows separate scales for liberalization and consolidation to be created and combined into a general indicator of democratization. Contrary to expectations in the literature, most central and eastern European countries perform comparatively better than the southern European and Latin American cases. Not only do they reach the same high levels of liberalization and consolidation, but they also do so in a much shorter time span. Furthermore, there is compelling evidence in the Middle Eastern and North African data that the liberalization of autocratic regimes does not always play a democratization triggering role.

Ulrich Sedelmeier

Frank Schimmelfennig and Ulrich Sedelmeier (eds) The Europeanization of Central and Eastern Europe (Cornell University Press, April 2005).

Abstract
In May 2004, eight former Eastern Bloc countries joined the European Union. What is involved in “accession”? How have accession dynamics affected and been affected by the domestic politics of candidate countries and their adoption of EU rules? In this carefully designed volume of original essays, the editors have brought together a group of scholars with firsthand research experience in the new member-states of Central and Eastern Europe. Framed by opening and concluding chapters by Frank Schimmelfennig and Ulrich Sedelmeier that outline several aspects of preparation for accession, the empirical case studies discuss a variety of topics, including democracy and human rights, the reform of state administrations and economic, social, and environmental policies. This book demonstrates the importance of the credibility and the costs of accession conditionality for the adoption of EU rules in Central and Eastern Europe.

Internet
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Diane Stone

Diane Stone (CPS, CEU) and Simon Maxwell (Overseas deelopment Institute, London), eds. Global Knowledge Networks and International Development: Bridges Across Boundaries, Routledge 2005.

Abstract: 
The 'knowledge agenda' has become a central part of the discourse of both developing societies and advanced economies. Governments and international organisations devote considerable financial resources to both in-house and contracted research. A transnational ‘community of practice’ has emerged over the past decade, interested in the most effective use of research, data and analysis in the formation of policy. The contributors to this volume are part of the community. This volume draws together leading experts from academia, think-tanks and donor agencies, to examine the impact of transnational knowledge networks in the formulation of local, national and global policy in the field of international development and transition studies. The contributors pay particular attention to the global reach of research and the manner in which knowledge is incorporated into, and shapes, transnational policy domains.

The World Bank: A Decade of Reform and Reaction, with Chris Wright (eds.), Routledge, London, 2006 (forthcoming)

Think Tank Traditions: Policy Research and the Politics of Ideas, with Andrew Denham (eds.), Manchester University Press, Manchester, 2004

'Transfer Agents and Global Networks in the 'Transnationalisation' of Policy', Journal of European Public Policy, 11(3) 2004.

'Better Knowledge, Better Policy, Better World': The Grand Ambitions of a Global Research Institution, Global Social Policy, 4(1) 2003.

The 'Knowledge Bank' and The Global Development Network', Global Governance, 9(1) 2003: 43-61.

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Tibor Tajti

Tibor Tajti, Corporate Governance: An Oversold Elitist Idea of No Interest To or For
The Central European Transitory Economies? (p21-91), The Corporate Governance Law Review (2005) Volume 1, Number 1, Sandstone, 2005.

Stefan Messmann & Tibor Tajti (eds.), INVESTING IN SOUTH EASTERN EUROPE - Foreign Direct Investment in the Stability Pact Countries (European University Press, Bochum, 2005) (Two volumes/1004 pages).

Central European Contribution to the American Debate on the Definition of "Securities" or Why does the Definition of "Security" Matter?-- The Fiasco of the Hungarian Real Estate Investment Cooperatives, Pyramiding, and Why Emerging Capital Markets should be Equipped to "Act" rather than "React". Published in the international law journal:
Transnational Law & Contemporary Problems (Iowa University, U.S.) volume 15, issue 1, pages 109 - 216 (Fall 2005). (Available through westlaw.)

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Tibor Varady

Tibor Varady, Medjunarodno privatno pravo (Private International Law - in Serbian), Novi Sad 2004, 7th Edition, Co-authors Bernadett Bordas and Gaso Knezevic.

Tibor Varady, "The language Issue in International Commercial Arbitration - Notions and Questions" - published in Prawo Prywatne Czasu Przemian- Festschrift Soltysinski, Poznan 2005, pp.923-954.

Balazs Vedres

Balázs Vedres, László Bruszt, and David Stark. 2005. "Organizing
Technologies: Genre Forms of Online Civic Association in Eastern Europe." The
ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
2005 597:
171-188.

Abstract: 
How do civic associations in Eastern Europe organize themselves online? Based on data collected on 1,585 East European civil society Web sites, the authors identify five emergent genres of organizing technologies: newsletters, interactive platforms, multilingual solicitations, directories, and brochures. These clusters do not correspond to stages of development. Moreover, newer Web sitesare morelikely to be typical of their genre,suggesting that forms are becoming more distinctive. In contrast to the utopian image of a de-territorialized, participatory global civil society, the authors’ examination of the structure of hyperlinks finds that transnational types of Web sites are not inclined to be participatory. Whereas other paradigms focus on inequality of users’ online access, the authors probe inequality in the accessibility of Web sites to potential users through search engine technology and show how this varies across different types of civil society Web sites.

 

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Violetta Zentai

"Gender Equality Policy or Gender Mainstreaming: the case of Hungary. Gender policies in Hungary on the road to an enlarged Europe", with Andrea Krizsan, Policy Studies, 2006/2. Forthcoming in May 2006.

"From civil society development to policy research" with Andrea Krizsan. In: Stone, D. and Maxwell, S. (eds), Global Knowledge Networks and International Development. Routledge, 2005.

"National report on Hungary" with Andrea Krizsan and Herta Toth. In: Cruels, M. and Igareda, N. (eds), Women, Integration and Prison. Barecelona: Aurea Editores: 2005.

Faces of Local Democracy. with Gabor Soós, (eds.). Open Society Institute, Budapest, 2005.

Reshaping Globalization. Multilateral Dialogues and New Policy Initiatives. with Andrea Krizsan (eds). CPS-CEU Press, Budapest, 2003.