Eastern European public opinion on economic issues: privatization and transformation.

From: The American Journal of Economics and Sociology | Date: January 1, 1997| Author: Hayo, Brend | Copyright information

Survey data on Eastern Europe is investigated with respect to two major questions: How do people view the creation of a market economy and how do they assess the speed of economic transformation and privatization. These questions are analyzed by looking at the development over 1990 to 1992 and by performing regressions with a number of demographic variables as regressors. Some findings are that the opposition to the creation of a market economy is increasing over time, that in Hungary and Pol...

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