Reform efforts in regional public administration in Hungarian geography in the period between the two world wars
Year: 2003
Type: article
Abstract: In the period between the two world wars, Hungarian geography partly followed and mediated the processes going on in the international science.At the same time, the dominance of regional theory survived within Hungarian geography, because they thought that was the only way to prove the spatial unity of the Carpathian Basin and the historical Hungary.Besides the dominance and representation of regional theory and landscape administration theory (Teleki, Elek, Péter) the theory of central places appeared, too (Prinz, Erdei, Mendöl, Hantos) and the theory of economic regions (this category was defined in Hungary in 1918 for the first time, then almost all thought this period the need for an administrative division built on the economic regions appeared every now and then (Pécsi Albert).Between the two world wars, the county self-governments lost much of their importance (centralisation strengthened between the two world wars, especially in 1942), but the counties as spatial units still remained the dominant territorial basic structure of the Hungarian public administration.Each organ of the specialised state administration was integrated in the counties or the groups of the counties and all the smaller organs were county-based.The period between the two world wars is extremely rich in reform plans of public administration, including plans relating to supra-county, regional public administration and spatial division.Nevertheless the radical re-organisation of the public administration in Hungary did not take place.The Hungarian elite did not only favour historical legal continuity but also the territorial stability. Key-words : Region -Regionalisation in Hungary -Geography and regions -Political and administrative geography in Hungary -International connections in
Authors: Zoltán Hajdú, Zsuzsanna Hajdú
Language: English
Subfield: Geography, Planning and Development
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2011704527