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• The Rethinking the public in Higher Education: Communitarian Engagement vs. Service-Based dependency

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  Gyöngyvér Pataki

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  62

  There has been structural change in higher education due to the impact of institutions built or maintained in private public partnership. The aim of the paper is to give a deep insight into how these institutions could accomodate or shape the public higher education sector’s discouses, spaces, procedures. The research used mixed method to approach this complex question from a multidisciplinary perspective (sociology, education). Within this framework two residential halls were chosen and 17 interviews were carreid out with all relevant figure of the management. Due to the analytical tools of Maxqda 12 the qualitative results will be presented giving an insight into the differing discourses and practices of the public vs. private-public management. Based on the analysis of the managerial interviews it is safe to state that the public management struggles to balance a communitarian, democratic discourse and objectives with the requirements of efficiency and accountability. The presence of private-public management unintendedly shapes its public counterpart. The institutional analysis revealed that due to the swiftly changing institutional and policy environment residential halls are forced to be efficient leading to difficulties in managerial legitimacy and questions concepts such as community, conformity, commitment and action. Under the circumstances of increasingly growing institutional service-based dependency and control, academic consumers, institutions and students alike, paradoxically avoid integrating into macro groups. As a consequence, the institution encourage and educate student into a particular type of citizenship based on communication and consumerism rather than consensus.

• Public administration reforms in Central-Eastern-Europe

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  Judit Szakos

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  53

  The goal of this paper is in one hand to summarize how public administration reform trends
  have spread in Central-Eastern-Europe since the transition, on the other hand to overview the
  techno-economical paradigms which can determine the near future in the region. To analyse
  spreading and development of New Public Management to Post-NPM doctrines periodization of
  Drechsler and Randma-Liiv (2014) is being used. At the end threads and opportunities related
  to technological development are aimed to be found in relation with public administration and
  governance. Using entrepreneurial state’s concept shows that solving wicked issues needs active
  state’s involvement, which might have a strong effect on public administration’s reform as well.

• Revisiting enterprise politics in the interwar Hungary: The case of The Rimamurány–Salgótarján Iron Works Co.: Worker‘s lifestyle and rate of living on the colony of the steel factory in Salgótarján before the World War II.

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  Réka Várkonyi-Nickel

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  54

  The Rimamurány–Salgótarján Iron Works Co. in Salgótarján started to run up from 1871. The
  people who lived in the workers’ colony of the Steelworks in Salgótarján differentiated themselves
  from the rest of the local residents not only spatially but also in their appearance, as a result of
  their higher standard of living. At the begining of the 20th century the major streets of the colony
  (Acélgyári Street) had macadam or stoned surface and were lit with public street lightning. The
  duty of the socalled Dwelling Master was to guarantee neat, clean, tidy streets within the colony.
  Steelworkers had more opportunity to visit the shops and barbershop than those men who lived
  within the downtown. This difference was partly due to their higher income and partly due to
  the fact that the services of the comany’s shop and the barber at the colony were much cheaper
  than those of other local barbers since it was ordered so by factory management. Workers’
  houses were up to the standards of the time, they did not pay rent or just a very low price and
  workers had a possibility to build their own garden houses on the land of the company. All this
  fundamentally changed in the second half of the 1940s owing to post-war lack of raw material
  and Socialist ’modernization’ and uniformization. The period of communist dictatorship after
  World War II, nationalization of the works and Socialist ’modernization’ created trauma at the
  colony.