A MAGYAR KÖZIGAZGATÁS ÉS KÖZIGAZGATÁS-TUDOMÁNY JOGIAS JELLEGÉRŐL
ON THE LEGAL NATURE OF HUNGARIAN PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION AND OF THE DISCIPLINE OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION

Summary/Abstract: Legal approach towards and within public administration is prevalent in Continental European countries; especially so in the Germanic administrative systems, like that of Hungary. Based on statistical and documentary analysis, the paper demonstrates the presence of the ‘Legal’ in various segments of administration: proportion of lawyers in senior civil service (57%); legal regulation on professional requirement (71% of civil service positions may be fi lled in by lawyers); academic approach to public administration (cca. 60% of papers in the leading PA journal are dominantly based on Law as a discipline); civil service training (72% of the training material being of a dominantly legal character). According to survey data civil servants devote two thirds of their working time to activities of a predominantly law-related character (such as drafting or executing laws). The fi nal section of the paper discusses policy and implementation failures of the government that presumably stem from the legalistic nature of the administration.

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