ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses some of the principal channels of possible influence, aside from the straightforward path of good-faith support for international agreements combined with innovative national policy making and energetic implementation. It outlines hypothesized additional influences into three categories: European integration and competing international environmental regimes, changes in the domestic political regime, and Property shifts combined with market forces. The possible additional influence on acidification is related to the orientation of the new national regime to influences and events beyond the borders of Hungary. In Hungary there are 3200 local governments, and at the end of the 1980s these were charged with many substantial responsibilities. The shift to a market economy can be expected to have major changes on many aspects of life in Hungary, including acidification policy and its implementation. The foregoing logic, then, suggests market-grounded constraints on the potential impact of any international regimes for controlling acidification.
