Networking leader and local oligarchies

• Authors: Csurgo, Bernadett , Kovach, Imre

Abstracts

EN

This paper presents a case study from Hungary about the “Nagykunságért” LEADER Local Action Group, which demonstrates the limits of an actor’s involvement in local rural development. Project participation in this region depends on the financial and managerial capacity of participants. Actors with capacity are involved with the project as a matter of course, but those without capacity are crowded out and lack access to resources. Actors in rural development are characterised by their ability to disseminate diverse kinds of information and use of knowledge. Inclusion, exclusion, and the power of local oligarchies are main concepts in this paper, which studies LEADER as a tool which may be used either for democracy or against local democratic control over the distribution of development funds.

Keywords

EN

involvement; oligarchy; knowledge; project class

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Łódzki. Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
• Journal: Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Sociologica
• Year: 2013
• Volume: 44

Dates

published

2013-05

Contributors

author

Csurgo, Bernadett

author

Kovach, Imre

other

Bernadett Csurgo -Institute of Sociology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest

other

Imre Kovach -Institute of Sociology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest

Identifiers

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/11089/3181