The authors analyse two types of the concrete and broad ranging self-go­vernment initiatives in Spain: the system of cooperatives and the "partner­ship owners". They describe the structure in which these work, the scopes of authority and especially the possibilities they provide for the workers to acquire practice in the management of affairs through these forms of parti­cipation.

The author who was involved personally in the cultural policy of the Kadar-era, linking to the writings carried by our paper's previous issue, tries to pro­vide an objective analysis of that cultural policy. Proceeding from sub-era to sub-era he shows that it was characterised by successive waves. He calls attention to the asynchronity of the policy as a whole and cultural po­licy and the tensions stemming in the role of culture of having been a valve. He points out that when evaluating the period, it is impossible to think in black and white terms: the results and regressions were inseparable in the cultural performance of the age. He makes an attempt to evaluate the role played by György Aczél (and to some extent of Janos Kadar) and discus­ses those features of the age in the field of culture which led to the collapse and the preparations for the change of system ending the Kadar-era.

The criminology specialist reviews the recent crime statistics and tries to find the causes of the dramatic upswing in the wave of crimes. In addition to the evident connections between multiple disadvantage and crime, he surveys the psychological types of family influences promoting crime, the crisis of institutions and the changes of social values with special regard to the radical growth of value of material wealth.