Professor of Sociology, Head of Department
Tel. [+39] 055 4685 426 / 233
Fax [+39] 055 4685 201
Email: Laszlo.Bruszt@eui.eu
Office: BF 180, Badia Fiesolana
Secretary: Monika.Rzemieniecka@eui.eu
Postal address
Department of Political and Social Sciences
European University Institute
Via dei Roccettini 9
50014 San Domenico di Fiesole - Italy
Prof. Bruszt has a Ph.D. in Sociology from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Since 1992 he has been successively associate professor and professor at the Department of Political Sciences at the Central European University.
He has taught in the United States at Notre Dame University, at the New School for Social Research and at Cornell University. He has been a research fellow at the EUI in 1987/88, and a visiting fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg in Berlin, at the Budapest Collegium and at the Center for Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences at Stanford.
In his earlier research he has dealt with issues of economic and political transformation in the postcommunist countries. His more recent studies focus on the interplay between transnationalization, institutional development and economic change.
Prof. Bruszt joined the Department on 1 April 2004.
Active: Hungarian, English, Russian, German
Passive: Italian
Economic sociology; politics of market making; social and political transformations in the Central and Eastern European countries
His collaborative research with Balazs Vedres studies the impact of EU regional development programmes on regional governance structures and the emergence of local developmental agency.
His research with Gerald McDermott on transnational integration regimes deals with comparing the ways EU and NAFTA effect institutional development in evolving market democracies. With the support of the Global Governance Programme, of the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, and the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) Bruszt and McDermott launched a research initiative to explore the formation of Transnational Integration Regimes (TIRs) and and he is coordinating the Transnational Integration Regimes and Domestic Institutional Change in Emerging Market Economies within the Global Governance Programme.
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The Transnationalization of Economies, States, and Civil Societies, Bruszt, László, Holzhacker, Ronald (eds.)
Springer , New York, 2009,
online version
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László Bruszt and Ronald Holzhacker "Three Converging Literatures of Transnationalization and the Varieties of Transnationalization" in Bruszt, Laszlo; Holzhacker, Ronald (eds.), The Transnationalization of Economies, States, and Civil Societies, Springer New York, pp. 1-23
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László Bruszt and Gerald A. McDermott, "Transnational Integration Regimes as Development Programmes in Bruszt, Laszlo; Holzhacker, Ronald (eds.), The Transnationalization of Economies, States, and Civil Societies, Springer, New York, 23-61
http://www.springer.com/cda/content/document/cda_downloaddocument/9780387893389-c1.pdf?SGWID=0-0-45-786603-p173866323
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László Bruszt and Béla Greskovits, "Transnationalization, Social Integration, and Capitalist Diversity in the East and the South", Studies in Comparative International Development, Vol 44: 411–4
http://www.springerlink.com/openurl.asp?genre=article&id=doi:10.1007/s12116-009-9045-0
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“The Politics of Civic Combinations ” (with Vedres, Balazs) Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit, Vol. 19, No. 2 / June, 2008, 140-160; also forthcoming in Victor Perez Diaz (ed.), Markets and Civil Society. Berghahn Books, New York. [l1]
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“Multi-Level Governance – The Eastern Versions: Emerging Patterns of Regional Developmental Governance in the New Member States” in Regional and Federal Studies 2008 18: 5,607–627; also published in Polish as ‘Wielopoziomowy system rządzenia - Przykłady wschodnie’, in Zarzadzanie Publiczne
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“Rooted Transnational Publics: Integrating Foreign Ties and Civic Activism” (with Stark, David and Balazs Vedres), Theory and Society, Vol. 35, No. 3 (2006), pp. 323-349.
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Also published in Russian «Укорененные транснациональные сообщества: интегрируя зарубежные связи и гражданскую активность». Перевод под ред. В.В. Радаева. Журнал «Экономическая социология» (Старк Д., Ведреш Б.).
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“Making Capitalism Compatible with Democracy – Tentative Reflections from the East ", in Crouch, Colin and Wolfgang Streeck (eds.), The Diversity of Democracy, A tribute to Philippe C. Schmitter, 2006 Edward Elgar (forthcoming)
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‘Shaping the Web of Civic Participation: Civil Society Websites in Eastern Europe’ (with Balazs Vedres and David Stark), Journal of Public Policy, Vol. 25, No. 1, 2005, pp. 149-165.
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”Who Counts?: Supranational Norms and Societal Needs” (with David Stark), East European Politics and Societies, 17(1): 74-82.
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”One Way or Multiple Paths: For a Comparative Sociology of East European Capitalism” (with David Stark), American Journal of Sociology 106(4), 1129-37.
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“Market Making as State Making - Constitutions and Economic Development in Postcommunist Eastern Europe ” in Constitutional Political Economy, 2002/1, vol. 15: 53-72.
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“Making Markets and Eastern Enlargement: Diverging Convergence? ”, in Peter Mair and Jan Zielonka (eds.), The Enlarged European Union: Diversity and Adaptation, Frank Cass: London, Portland, 2002 pp. 121-41.
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“Heterarchies and Developmental Traps ” in Karl Hinrichs, Herbert Kitschelt and Helmut Wiesenthal (eds.) Kontingenz und Krise – Institutionenpolitik in kapitalistischen und postsozialistischen Gesellschaften – Claus Offe zu seinem 60.Geburtstag (Campus Verlag, Frankfurt/New York 2000), pp. 119-41.
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Postsocialist Pathways: Transforming Politics and Property in East Central Europe (with David Stark). New York and Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.
Work in Progress
Fostering developmental agency from without. Aiding transnationalizing local alliances between state, civil society and business