CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2024
| Author | Nadrai, Patrik |
|---|---|
| Title | FROM CLASSROOM TO SOCIETY: Mechanisms of Social Reproduction Through Hungarian Educational Institutions Under Orban's Reign |
| Summary | There is an intense discussion on the authoritarian turn in Hungary, focusing on the country’s institutional and state apparatus aspects. However, not many scholars scrutinise the informal reconstruction of the state. The thesis seeks to expand on the latter by examining if and how the education system under the Orbán regime aims to reproduce the clientelist political and economic elite as well as the masses of unskilled labourers who will provide the votes. The research gathers information from speeches, legislation, articles, databases, books, and journal articles. The thesis concludes that the regime reproduces the masses of unskilled labourers by trapping them in steadily declining public education with unattainable alternatives. In parallel, the Orbán regime provides alternative educational pathways to escape the public education system. However, those pathways are only reachable for those with the monetary means to educate their children. At the end of the process, children from decent socio-economic backgrounds obtain a university degree and the possibility to join the clientelist elite. |
| Supervisor | Lyer, Kirsten Roberts; |
| Department | Undergraduate Studies BA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2024/nadrai_patrik.pdf |
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