Bezáródás a perifériára – A hazai társadalmi-gazdasági elmaradottság tartós térbeli fennmaradása, 1960–2020
Locked in on the peripheral path – Enduring spatial persistence of the Hungarian socio-economic backwardness, 1960–2020

Summary/Abstract: According to the central hypothesis of present study, the spatial structure of backwardness in socialist and post-socialist Hungary is a persistent phenomenon. The research is seeking to identify the factors influencing the persistence of socioeconomic peripheralization, as well as to describe the spatial and temporal stability of the spatial structure of backwardness. The thesis presents the main processes of the “locked in on the peripheral path” during the examined period, and formulates research questions related to the above objectives. The answers are typically provided by using quantitative methods, partially explanatory models (binary logistic regression), and exploratory space-time data analysis methods (ESTDA). The models explaining the backwardness trajectories of the settlements confirm the path dependence based on cumulative processes, and point to the permanent structural weaknesses of the urban network in certain peripheral large areas. Multispeed peripheries can be delineated with spatial and temporal analyses, which prove the spatially heterogeneous and significant presence of circular cumulative processes (vicious circles). Basically, the thesis supports the necessity of placebased development proposals, for this purpose interventions at state and other (supranational) levels must be wellfounded in order to suit local needs.

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