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• Political science and the perception of time: Cyclical rotation between the present-centric and the historical perspective

  94-130.

  Csizmadia Ervin

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  31

  In the first part of the two-part study the author posits that it is an exciting challenge for political
  science to take stock of the scientific paradigms of the past 50 years based on their perspective
  of time. The study looks at the past 50 years solely based upon the perception of time and
  highlights the four paradigms deemed the most important: political development, transitology,
  new historicism, and the school of American Political Development (APD). The study reviews the
  authors representative of each paradigm and the most important elements of their arguments. Political scientists were susceptible to the historical perspective between the 1960s and the 80s. Later on, during the 90s until the mid-2000s the perspective for interpretation became
  the present. In the last decade however, it seems that the interest in historical perspectives has
  returned. The author concludes that a cyclical rotation can be demonstrated within political
  science between the two perspectives, the logic of which would be advisable to study.

• Public administration reforms in Central-Eastern-Europe

  124-142

  Judit Szakos

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  64

  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.

• Social vulnerability and interpersonal support in disaster experienced Hungarian settlements

  27-53

  András Molnár

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  93

  Natural disasters unequally affect poor and wealthy populations, which can be observed everywhere regardless of the economic performance of the respective country. Paradigms focusing on physical hazards and response can not be considered, while social, political and cultural causes are rarely mentioned in the discussions around particular disaster events. Marginalized households and communities, and populations with less income are more affected by disasters. A significant proportion of Hungary’s settlements are deprived or otherwise marginalized, which makes it necessary to raise social and economic questions related to disasters, and investigate them from a spatial aspect. This study is based on case studies of five disaster-affected settlements and encompasses a social vulnerability approach. The research is based on interviews with key informants involved in response to the respective disasters and broadened with an experiment to use the Interpersonal Support Evaluation List as an instrument to investigate community resilience. The ISEL is capable of observing the individuals’ self-perception of themselves in their communities and how they can rely on others in their environment. The survey, with the participation of 103 people, discovered discrepancies in the level and structure of interpersonal support, which is tangible based on the interviews.