The Way to a More Integrated Territorial State Administration. The Aims and Causes Behind the Renewal of Hungarian Mid-Level State Administration

Abstract

This study focuses primarily on the territorial bodies of mid-level state administration. Hungarian territorial state administration has been under constant transformation since 1989–1990. As other studies have already researched the key steps of this transformation extensively, this paper focuses solely on the major developments of the 2016/2017 calendar years (primarily due to the manuscript deadline). The study is mostly based on the analysis of the relevant Hungarian legislation, but also contains an international outlook. In summary, the paper concludes that in recent years the number of Hungarian territorial administrative organisations have been greatly reduced, the importance of the capital and county government offices have been greatly increased, the system of the district-level offices have been differentiated, and the customer relationship solutions have seen a notable renewal. The aforesaid conclusions will also offer a system-level interpretation of this Neo-Weberian Hungarian transformation.