Participation of Professional Interest Groups and Political Forces in the Creation of the Act on Public Education

Abstract

In my paper I wish to analyse the emergence of the Act on Public Education, passed in 1993, from the angle of the opportunities of those concerned, namely of the different interest groups, professional and political organisations for influencing the legislative process. In addition to the related newspaper articles, papers and books, I have used the different variants of the bill and the proposals that were written in connection with the bill and have been accessible and have also utilised ten interviews in depth made with experts, officials and representatives of different professional and lay interest organisations who had been involved in the process of law making. The paper was commissioned by the National Institute of Public Education and by the SVO of the Netherlands, the interviews were made by the author of the paper, by Tibor Papházy, András Lugosi and András Máth within the framework of the research project entitled „Educational Interest Organisations in Hungary", financed by the National Fund for Scientific Research.