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Dilemmas of child protection in Hungary

An important area of social policy is child protection. Discussing the history of the problem, the author primarily puts on the scale the pros and cons of fostering in institution and in family. She confronts the concepts of child protection of the past few decades with the requirement of being "modern.
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The debates of the left on Yugoslavia

Four major tendencies are introduced concerning the causes of the Balkan war, and the judgment about the participants of the conflict. All these approaches have their weaknesses, although all they are able to grasp some important elements of reality. Rethinking of the situation on the Balkans requires not simply an assessment of the former Yugoslav republics, but also a general overview of the role of international institutions, and the so-called New World Orde.
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Debt and war in Yugoslavia

An unreported factor of the causes of the Balkan war is the foreign indebtedness of Yugoslavia. Since the early 1970s, the debt prob­lem, along with the cures recommended by the IMF, regenerated the differentiation between different regions of the country, and led to an unresolvable distributional conflict between the republics. The final result could not be else but the break-down of the Yugoslav economy, and the break-up of the federal stat.
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No. 22 | (Summer 1994)

As we have promised earlier one of the main topics of this issue of Eszmélet is social policy looking at it both from theoretical-methodological and practical point of view focusing on Hungary. A different group of articles analyse the comprehensive and principal questions of historical development beginning form early periods up to the postmodern approach to history. Several studies examine the validity and perspectives of the different models of the capitalist society developed so far. Readers certainly will find interesting the presented dilemmas and efforts of the political left concerning the horrific events in former Yugoslavia and in Russia.

Table of contents
  1. Lévai Katalin, Andor László, Kakuszi István, Susan Zimmermann : Talking about social policy
  2. Loren Goldner : Eurocentrism and its mirror images: postmodernism versus world history
  3. Wiener György : On prematured social formations – theses
  4. Ronald Dore : Japanese capitalism vs. Anglo-Saxon capitalism. End stage of darwinian fight?
  5. David M. Kotz : A comparative analysis of the theory of regulation and the social structure accumulation theory
  6. Susan Zimmermann : The perspectives of social policy analysis
  7. Andor László : The efficient welfare – interview with Ian Gough
  8. Gere Ilona : Social traps of unemployment
  9. Szabó Sándorné : Consumption structures and the dilemmas of income distribution
  10. B. Aczél Anna : Dilemmas of child protection in Hungary
  11. Andor László : The welfare state tomorrow
  12. Catherine Samary : The debates of the left on Yugoslavia
  13. Michael Barrat Brown : Debt and war in Yugoslavia
  14. Adamik Mária : Hungarian social policy from gender point of view
  15. Papp György : The Hungarian Forum of Child Interests
  16. Krausz Tamás : Introduction to a document of a historic event
  17. To the Russian intelligentsia
  18. Some spohisticated methords to create subordinated labour force
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Hungarian social policy from gender point of view

The state socialist regime incorporated the so-called "women's ques­tion" into its social policy, but that policy was locked into the realm of patronizing women and imposing moral duties on them. The new conservative government have made some steps backwards from this stage. Progress in these questions requires an open debate about the role of the rights of men and women in society, and new social contracts between different groups of societ.