Impact of Civil Initiation on Local Govemance

Abstract

This project is part of my PhD thesis in the field of social science. In this project we were examining the co-operation between the civil organisations and the local government in Hungary. Analysing the development of participation and co-operation of the last one and the half decade this study gives an overview of development tendencies in the domestic civil society. In this case, the subjects my study's is so-called civil conceptions of Hungarian towns. The Hungarian iocal governments don't have to frame such documents. It is only an opportunity for them to improve their relations with the local interested parties.

The applied method in this study was contents analysis. The base of the analysis was the civil conception. The conceptions were overviewed. They are similar to each other, because therein aren't lots of self-contained idea. My dilemmas were; interests are reflected in these documents? It was evidenced that It is reflecting the interests of the local governments rather than the interests of the local civil parties.