Public Policy & Social Justice
The Legal, Religious, and Linguistic Status of Artificial Insemination...
Artificial insemination; embryo donation; reproductive medicine; bioethics; demographic policy; legal terminology
The article examines the legal, bioethical, religious, and linguistic status of artificial insemination, stored embryos, and embryo donation in Hungary. It connects reproductive medicine with demographic policy and proposes replacing the term “embryo donation” with “embryo gifting” to reshape public attitudes.
BÁGER, GUSZTÁV – LOVÁSZY, GÁBOR LÁSZLÓ
The Role of Vocational Training in Conflict Management...
Mediator training; conflict management; social sustainability; professional competence; continuing education; mediation
Social sustainability provides complex responses to the increasingly pressing challenges of our world, which have an impact on all aspects of life, including conflict resolution through mediation. My aim is to examine the methodology of mediation from the perspective of how education and training in the subject can adequately respond to the demands of social sustainability.
ANTAL, ORSOLYA
“Landscape After Battle” – On the Margins of the Hungarian Public Education Act
Public education; teachers’ rights; right to strike; educational autonomy; LGBTQ content; constitutional rights
Protests by teachers' and students' NGOs and civil disobedience movements have drawn attention to the fundamental deficiencies of the Hungarian public education system. The controversial so-called „Status Law”, which provoked intense debates, redefined the careers of teachers (called national career path model - see below) and the whole organisation of public educational system. The most significant dilemma of the legislation act is how to interpret the constitutional right to education and the autonomy of public education. In answering this question, it is necessary to point out the government's intention and the wide social/political debate that also emerged behind the government decree on child protection and has resulted in the exclusion of LMBTQ-themed learning materials from school textbooks. The latter has led to the need to wrap LGBTQ books in the youth literature section of bookshops. Why and how have education and child protection issues become politicised and ideologised in Hungary?
EGRESI, KATALIN
Measuring Digital Government at the Local Level
Digital government; local government; e-administration; benchmarking; public-sector digitalisation; municipal services
Digital government is now inseparable from the idea of a modern and efficient public administration. Although the conceptual framework of digital government is still a matter of debate, national and international programmes and action plans have identified the use of digital tools in almost all areas of public administration as a priority worldwide. In order to be able to analyse the impact of digital public administration tools on operational efficiency, it has become necessary to establish international comparative performance measurement frameworks (benchmarking reports). These measurement frameworks, which typically include rankings based on complex indicator systems, usually include scores that identify which countries have successfully met the expectations of the framework. These types of reports are therefore well suited to indirectly influence the digital government developments in each of the countries measured. Consequently, it is important to study the frameworks and monitor changes in measurement techniques. In this paper, I attempt to describe the changes in the most relevant macro-level analyses over the last five years, focusing mainly on local governments, which are less in the centre of interest.
MOLNÁR, PÉTER
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