Mozgástértől a szabadságig: Hatalmi stratégiák és döntési dilemmák politika és tudomány találkozásakor
From leeway to freedom: Power strategies and moral dilemmas at the collision between politics and academy

Summary/Abstract: The paper examines two problems concerning the collision between politics and the academy: the functioning of power and average citizens’ moral dilemmas. To capture the characteristics of power, I discuss the concepts of politics, power, and hegemony, focusing on the latter and differentiating between cooptation and expansion. These cover not only a theoretical context for the experience of how power intervenes into academic life but form a context as well, in which citizens must act and make decisions. These actions include first and foremost legitimizing discourses, which can be divided into passive and active legitimizing acts. Concerning the actors, there are three relevant actor positions: leaders, institutions, and – most importantly – individuals. The characteristics of their dilemmas are an important concern of the paper, which not only tries to capture a specific experience conceptually (that of the tension between academy and politics) but offers a glimpse inside the world of people fighting for having more leeway in the context of expansive power. Eventually, I try to show the dilemmas which can legitimize a forming authoritarian regime.

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