Reforms and Stability in the Course Administration Theory with Regards to Lajos Lőrincz as Course Initiator

Abstract

This study seeks the role of the course “Administration Theory” in the oeuvre of the late Professor Lajos Lőrincz’s (ordinary member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences) adequate publications, emphasizing his merits as course initiator. The paper pays attentions to the origin and etymology of the Latin word administratio and the Hungarian word közigazgatás and reform taking into account the function of Administrative Theory. This article applies the etymological and historical-retrospective method. This work underlines the most important turning points in the history of the Administration Theory course. We introduce the changes of the educators in the tuition of the course, the different curricula, and the methodological problems, too. We conclude that the Hungarian (and international) administrative and legal scientific journals are absolutely practice-oriented, but the suppressing of theoretical research is the beginning of the end.