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

Authors

  • Gábor Kozma University of Debrecen, Department of Social Geography and Regional Development Planning
  • Attila Barta University of Debrecen, Department of Public Administration Law

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1515/bog–2013–0011

Keywords

public administration, Hungary, deconcentrated state administrative organisations, regions

Abstract

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.

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KOZMA, Gábor and BARTA, Attila. Geographical aspects of the changes of Hungary’s deconcentrated state administration system between 1990 and 2012. Bulletin of Geography. Socio-economic Series. Online. 19 June 2013. No. 20, p. 59–69. [Accessed 18 May 2025]. DOI 10.1515/bog–2013–0011.
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