Renewing the Role of The State and its Public Administration from The Perspective of Hungarian Territorial State Administration
Renewing the Role of The State and its Public Administration from The Perspective of Hungarian Territorial State Administration

Summary/Abstract: This paper focuses on some of the peculiarities that characterized the last 30 years in the development of Hungarian public administration (and in particular, its territorial/deconcentrated state administration system). The importance of the topic stems from the fact that the Democratic Transition (and by extension, the changing role of the Hungarian state) not only renewed the Hungarian public administration system, but also fragmented it to a certain extent. One of the most peculiar examples of this phenomenon was the post-Transition „messy system” of deconcentrated state administration bodies.Albeit every government elected in the first two decades after the Transition was determined to rationalize the conglomerate of said administrative bodies, none of them managed to follow through with a long-lasting solution.However, in 2010, a new era of state (and public administration) development started in Hungary, primarily aimed on strengthening the role of the Hungarian state, increasing the intensity of centralisation and the widespread usage of organisational integration in public administration. These efforts, in essence, were driven by the Neo-Weberian approach, focusing on the rediscovery of the classic Weberian values while also fusing it with some of the proven solutions of New Public Management to meet today’s administrative expectations.

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