Geographical aspects of the changes of Hungary’s deconcentrated state administration system between 1990 and 2012

• Authors: Gábor Kozma , Attila Barta
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

One of the most important segments of the post-1990 transformation of territory-based administration in Hungary was the changing of the geographical structure of deconcentrated state administrative organisations. The study, on the one hand, provides a brief overview of the history of deconcentrated state administrative organisations in Hungary, and discusses the regional characteristics of the organisational transformations after the political changes, taking six moments in time (the middle of 1994, 1998, 2002, 2006, 2010 and 2012 respectively) as the basis. On the other hand, using the same six snapshots in time, it examines which settlements experienced favourable or unfavourable changes, and what factors influenced the selection of the seats for these institutions. The results of the survey indicated that the alignment of territorial structure of deconcentrated state administrative organizations to the planning-statistical, NUTS 2 regions has already begun at the end of the 1990s. The government formed in 2006 took significant steps in the area of aligning the spatial structure of the organizations with the planning-statistical regions; however, in the period after 2010 the significance of the county level increased again. In the period examined, no significant changes took place at the top and at the bottom of the list according to the number of seats: the largest settlements of the individual regions reinforced their leading positions.

Keywords

EN

public administration; Hungary; deconcentrated state administrative organisations; regions

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Bulletin of Geography. Socio-economic Series
• Year: 2013
• Volume: 20
• Issue: 20
• Pages: 59-69

Dates

published

2013-06-01

online

2013-06-21

Contributors

author

Gábor Kozma

• University of Debrecen, Department of Social Geography and Regional Development Planning, Egyetem ter 1., 4032 Debrecen, Hungary; phone: [phone]

author

Attila Barta

• University of Debrecen, Department of Public Administration Law, Kassai ut 26, 4028 Debrecen; phone: [phone]

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/bog-2013-0011