Cui prodest? Why local governance came to a deadlock in Hungary

Q2 Social Sciences Politics in Central Europe Pub Date : 2023-03-01 DOI:10.2478/pce-2023-0002
László Kákai, I. Kovács
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Abstract More than thirty years after Hungary’s transition to democracy and the change of territorial governance model, the time is now right to assess the outcome. This paper is primarily an assessment, concluding that the deadlock of the Hungarian local government system can be explained not only by the centralisation efforts of the governing and opposition political elites or the continuous decline of the budgetary position, but also by the indifference of local society. The fact is that the Hungarian local governments were not protected from being squeezed out of a significant part of public services, from a narrowing of their room to manoeuvre and from their authority position being weakened, by the general constitutional provisions introduced in 1990. An important proposition of this paper is that (local) society, although still more trusting of local governments than the central government according to various surveys, has not been able to become an ‘ally’ of local governments. The question rightly posed in the title of the paper is, whose interest is the local government system, who finds the values of self ‑governance important? The paper seeks (based mainly on academic literature and on its own and secondary analyses) the reasons/changes that have led to the stalemate of Hungarian local governments despite their initially strong mandate.
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崔刺激吗?匈牙利的地方治理为何陷入僵局
摘要匈牙利向民主过渡和领土治理模式改变三十多年后,现在是评估结果的时候了。本文主要是一项评估,得出的结论是,匈牙利地方政府系统的僵局不仅可以解释为执政和反对党政治精英的集中努力或预算状况的持续下降,还可以解释为地方社会的冷漠。事实是,匈牙利地方政府没有受到1990年出台的一般宪法条款的保护,不会被挤出公共服务的重要部分,不会被缩小其回旋余地,也不会被削弱其权威地位。本文的一个重要命题是,尽管根据各种调查,(地方)社会仍然比中央政府更信任地方政府,但还未能成为地方政府的“盟友”。论文标题中正确提出的问题是,谁的利益是地方政府系统,谁认为自治的价值观很重要?本文寻求(主要基于学术文献以及其自身和次要分析)导致匈牙利地方政府陷入僵局的原因/变化,尽管它们最初拥有强大的授权。
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Politics in Central Europe
Politics in Central Europe Social Sciences-Political Science and International Relations
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期刊介绍: POLITICS IN CENTRAL EUROPE – The Journal of the Central European Political Science Association is an independent and internationally peer-reviewed scientific journal in political science and international relations. The Journal was established in 2005 as the scientific review that publishes scientific essays, book reviews and information about conferences and other events connected with Central European issues. POLITICS IN CENTRAL EUROPE publishes politics, policy analysis, international relations and other sub-disciplines of political original, peer-reviewed manuscripts that provide scientific essays focusing on issues in comparative science, as well as original theoretical or conceptual analyses. All essays must contribute to a broad understanding of the region of Central Europe. Our goal is to give scholars from Central Europe and beyond the opportunity to present the results of their research.
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