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andor csizmadia, the social-politician
in Social provision in Hungary” published in 300 copies in the series „Development
of adminsitration” in 1977, which was completed in two years only and which made
Csizmadia the defining character of the Hungarian social political history.
Csizmadia Andor was appointed by the Sociological Research Institute to discover the
start of the social political administration in Hungary, as Kulcsár Kálmán, the editor of the
series says so that „the researchers, who analyze the problem from historical-sociological
point of view, could have a relevant administration-law-history base material”. 25
The material of the volume was prepared in two parts: the author got assigned on 12
September 1975 to write the chapter „Administration of poorness” and he handed
in the work in volume of 11 sheets on 15 October 1975. 26 He signed the contract
for the second part on 11 December 1975, agreeing to complete it in volume of
10 sheets by 30 November 1976 with the title „Productive attempts of the social
administration”. 27
This social political synthesis cannot be seen as unprecedented, rather as a summary
of Csizmadia’s researches and publications on social administration-history and
social law. Its pages reflect law historical publications written between 1941-43 (for
instance the quarter-masters, the decimal masters, the poorness relief under the
Transsylvanian Government, the famine action in 1817). The first drafts of the work
can be met in the pages of the course book issued for the social institution leaders’
courses. 28
But all these are present in the summarizing study as parts of a process which
intends to disseminate the individual stages of the alterations of the state social politics.
To present the road in which „a definitely conservative, paternalist, traditionally
poorness centered social politics gets to accepting social questions as institutional
or even institutionaled public task forms”. 29 All this is made so objectively, moving
with impressing confidence in the space and time, at the same time well-showing
the changes so that the reader will realize the contingency, and gap-toothed nature
of the part dealing with poorness administration only after detailed, thorough and
comprehensive presentation of the productive social politics. When dealing with the
poorness administration first he examines the buds of the feudal era, most of all the
urban poorness, then he tells about the social politics of the enlightened absolutism, and
after that the social provision before 1848 in Hungary and Transsylvania. In the mirror
of his own research he presents the social political experiments of the burgeois era up
to the first world war, after this the social provision of the Hungarian Counsil-Republic,
finally he disseminates the social political experiments up to the second world war, with
a special view of the poorness administration in the capital city. The more significant
part of the study volume is the detailed dissemination of the productive experiments
25 Csizmadia 1977. 1.
26 PTE Levéltár Dr. Csizmadia Andor irathagyatéka (1960-1980). 194.
27 PTE Levéltár Dr. Csizmadia Andor irathagyatéka (1960-1980). 190.
28 Csizmadia 1960. 27-49, 1964. 114-129.
29 Őry é.n. 2.
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