Abstract (may include machine translation)
The so-called special colleges, the movement of special colleges constitute since decades an active, dynamically changing and characteristic part of the Hungarian civil society and higher education, however no overarching research has been conducted so far. Realizing this deficiency we aimed at analyzing the whole movement in our research which took place between autumn 2006 and spring 2007. Originally, we looked at a pragmatic question: what are the determinants of the fund raising strategies in special colleges. But with the advancement of our research it became clear that we cannot circumvent the problem: in which sense are the special colleges part of the civil society? As a result, these two questions underlie our analysis. We found that approximately the half of the special colleges can be characterized by a diverse financial base which may allow them to fulfill an active role in the civil society. This diverse financial base strongly correlates with active tendering operations: on average those special colleges are financially independent which tender frequently and successfully. In turn, the financial independence is the basis for autonomy in organizational and collective action. Furthermore, successful tendering operations and autonomy are closely associated with two civil characteristics: self-governance and active public role. Based on these criteria we distinguished two groups of special colleges, one being civil-like, the other being non-civil like organizations. The two groups behaved essentially different with regard to affecting their environment and transmitting their values.
Translated title of the contribution | The links between the funding strategies and the civic nature of the colleges |
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Original language | Hungarian |
Pages (from-to) | 5-21 |
Number of pages | 17 |
Journal | Civil Szemle |
Volume | 16 |
Issue number | 3 |
State | Published - 2008 |
Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- Civil society
- Financing
- Special college