György Gajduschek
Biographic Data
| ID | 4191440 |
|---|---|
| NAME | György Gajduschek |
| GIVEN NAMES | György |
| FAMILY NAME | Gajduschek |
| SIGNATURE | GAJDUSCHEK G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Corvinus University of Budapest |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6211-5183 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
A social problem or a sacred promise? Explaining the mechanisms driving fee-free educational policy change in Ghana
Explaining policy change has been one of the major concerns of educational policy studies. Guided by the multiple streams framework (MSF), this article aims to explain the specific dynamics of cost-elimination policies at the high school level in Ghana. Through the thematic analysis of interviews, documents, and other resources, we argue that an exceptional confluence of problems, policies, and politics has shaped the Ghanaian educational policy …
Politicization beyond the Merit-system Façade. The Intricate Relationship between Formal and Informal Institutions of the Senior Civil Service Systems in Central and Eastern Europe
This paper argues that the role of informal institutions is central to understanding the politicization in Central and Eastern Europe generally and specifically in the formation of senior civil service (SCS) system. We focus on three diverse CEE countries in our analysis: Estonia, Hungary, and Slovakia. Our analysis is based on the framework elaborated by Helmke & Levitsky, of informal institutions and focuses on “competing” informal institution …
Retracted Article
Policy change frameworks are commonly used to understand policy development processes. However, few studies have attempted to apply these frameworks to the recent popular fee-free policy education at the high school level in Sub-Saharan Africa. Investigating fee-free policy development through policy change frameworks can assist both in identifying the genesis of past policies, including who the important actors are, how issues are framed and pro…
Public administration education in CEE countries
Changes in knowledge about law in Hungary in the past half century
In 1965 K?lm?n Kulcs?r, the leading researcher of legal sociology carried out the first and for long the last questionnaire survey that aimed to assess the legal knowledge of the Hungarian population. In an omnibus survey representative for the adult Hungarian population we used several questions identical with those of Kulcs?r?s in order to answer some of his research question. These questions are for instance: how the knowledge of law (criminal…
Civil Service Reform in Slovakia and Hungary
A professional civil service is the cornerstone of an effectively performing public sector. Politicisation is generally seen as the primary impediment to successful administrative development (Verheijen 2001; Pierre and Peters 2001), as it runs contrary to the principles of merit, professionalism and permanence that are essential foundations of a functioning civil service. The transition of Central and Eastern European countries into modern democ…
Politicisation, professionalisation, or both? Hungary's civil service system
This paper aims to determine where the Hungarian civil service system might be situated on an imaginary merit system – spoils system scale. In doing so, the Hungarian system is analyzed from two angles. Firstly, regulation is scrutinized as it is manifested in the Civil Service Act. Secondly, practice is examined relying on available statistical and survey data. The author argues that, contrary to the conclusions of most of scholarly publications…
Bureaucracy
Most contemporary scholars regard bureaucracy as an inefficient phenomenon. At the same time, we may find a great number of bureaucratic organizations in the various social spheres. Max Weber, who introduced the concept of bureaucracy into the social sciences, however, was convinced that bureaucracy is superior to any other organizational form and explained its prevalence by the immanent rationality of bureaucratic organizations. In analyzing Web…
Bureaucracy
Most contemporary scholars regard bureaucracy as an inefficient phenomenon. At the same time, we may find a great number of bureaucratic organizations in the various social spheres. Max Weber, who introduced the concept of bureaucracy into the social sciences, however, was convinced that bureaucracy is superior to any other organizational form and explained its prevalence by the immanent rationality of bureaucratic organizations. In analyzing Web…
Politicisation, professionalisation, or both? Hungary's civil service system
This paper aims to determine where the Hungarian civil service system might be situated on an imaginary merit system – spoils system scale. In doing so, the Hungarian system is analyzed from two angles. Firstly, regulation is scrutinized as it is manifested in the Civil Service Act. Secondly, practice is examined relying on available statistical and survey data. The author argues that, contrary to the conclusions of most of scholarly publications…
Public administration education in CEE countries
Bureaucracy
Most contemporary scholars regard bureaucracy as an inefficient phenomenon. At the same time, we may find a great number of bureaucratic organizations in the various social spheres. Max Weber, who introduced the concept of bureaucracy into the social sciences, however, was convinced that bureaucracy is superior to any other organizational form and explained its prevalence by the immanent rationality of bureaucratic organizations. In analyzing Web…
Politicisation, professionalisation, or both? Hungary's civil service system
This paper aims to determine where the Hungarian civil service system might be situated on an imaginary merit system – spoils system scale. In doing so, the Hungarian system is analyzed from two angles. Firstly, regulation is scrutinized as it is manifested in the Civil Service Act. Secondly, practice is examined relying on available statistical and survey data. The author argues that, contrary to the conclusions of most of scholarly publications…
Civil Service Reform in Slovakia and Hungary
A professional civil service is the cornerstone of an effectively performing public sector. Politicisation is generally seen as the primary impediment to successful administrative development (Verheijen 2001; Pierre and Peters 2001), as it runs contrary to the principles of merit, professionalism and permanence that are essential foundations of a functioning civil service. The transition of Central and Eastern European countries into modern democ…
Changes in knowledge about law in Hungary in the past half century
In 1965 K?lm?n Kulcs?r, the leading researcher of legal sociology carried out the first and for long the last questionnaire survey that aimed to assess the legal knowledge of the Hungarian population. In an omnibus survey representative for the adult Hungarian population we used several questions identical with those of Kulcs?r?s in order to answer some of his research question. These questions are for instance: how the knowledge of law (criminal…
Public administration education in CEE countries
Retracted Article
Policy change frameworks are commonly used to understand policy development processes. However, few studies have attempted to apply these frameworks to the recent popular fee-free policy education at the high school level in Sub-Saharan Africa. Investigating fee-free policy development through policy change frameworks can assist both in identifying the genesis of past policies, including who the important actors are, how issues are framed and pro…
Politicization beyond the Merit-system Façade. The Intricate Relationship between Formal and Informal Institutions of the Senior Civil Service Systems in Central and Eastern Europe
This paper argues that the role of informal institutions is central to understanding the politicization in Central and Eastern Europe generally and specifically in the formation of senior civil service (SCS) system. We focus on three diverse CEE countries in our analysis: Estonia, Hungary, and Slovakia. Our analysis is based on the framework elaborated by Helmke & Levitsky, of informal institutions and focuses on “competing” informal institution …
A social problem or a sacred promise? Explaining the mechanisms driving fee-free educational policy change in Ghana
Explaining policy change has been one of the major concerns of educational policy studies. Guided by the multiple streams framework (MSF), this article aims to explain the specific dynamics of cost-elimination policies at the high school level in Ghana. Through the thematic analysis of interviews, documents, and other resources, we argue that an exceptional confluence of problems, policies, and politics has shaped the Ghanaian educational policy …
Law (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Economics (6 works) · Public Administration (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Business (3 works) · Civil service (3 works) · European Union Policy and Governance (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Politics (3 works)