Paper/Speech Details of Conference Program for the 25th NISPAcee Annual Conference Program Overview I. Local Government Author(s) Lilla Bauer Ludovika University of Public Service Budapest Hungary Title The Impact of Centralizing Processes of Education and Social Sectors in the Local Government System – Case Study File Paper files are available only for conference participants, please login first. Presenter Lilla Bauer Abstract In the last 20-25 years in Hungary a lot of valuable and good public policy programs have been launched with the aim of strengthening social cohesion, solidarity and the active partaking of the youth in politics and asserting fairness in the whole society. The statement of this paper is that these programs have been launched in the social and educational branch independently, without coordination and socio-political strategy. The huge problem that there is a minimal demand and intention from the prevailing decision makers’ side to evaluate specific political decisions and interventions properly and to maintain and institutionalize good practices through several governmental cycles. The state public service tasks has been largely executed by the municipalities for 20 years. Nowadays there are permanent centralizing processes in Public Administration in all sectors. The question of this paper if these processes could strengthen the education system and the quality of social services and thereby enhance social mobility and competitiveness or not. This paper hypotesis is that there is not a matured, well-coordinated conception and plan for the cooperation between the state administration and local governance. Questionable if without this consensus is possible to improve the social cohesion. In the focus of this paper is an empirical research by carrying out in a District Government Office of Hungarian Capital, Budapest.
