E bevezetőben és jelen lapszám következő tanulmányaiban egy olyan perspektívát ajánlunk a jelenlegi magyarországi rezsimről szóló vitákhoz, ami a Magyarországon belüli viszonyokat a globális kapitalizmus folyamataihoz való kapcsolódás szempontjából vizsgálja. A 2010 utáni...

It sounds like a cliché, and a fact proven from several aspects to state that the Hungarian system of municipalities that was established in 1990 is characterized by excessive decentralization and the role of the conflict container, as well as the contradiction between the constitutional...

In April 2007, the State Audit Office (SAO) presented to Parliament a document entitled “Theses on the Regulation of Public Finances”, which the Parliament discussed, asking the government to use the theses during the “reregulation of public finances”. The renewal of regulations on...

Think global, act local Ilona Kovács Pálné Local governments in Hungary DIALÓG CAMPUS KIADÓ, 2008

In Europe, the decentralization of the exercise of public functions has been a marked tendency since the early 1980's. A related phenomenon was the wide acceptance of the European Charter, adopted within the framework of the Council of Europe. The Charter is a fine example of the process now...

In Hungarian political and professional discourse – partly as an effect of the financial crisis – the issue of reform of the local government system has been put on agenda again. This welcome – though under-pressure – fact raises various presumptions and illusions at the same time. The...

JOSEPH STIGLITZ Globalisation and its discontents, Penguin books (Napvilág Kiadó, 2003) JOSEPH STIGLITZ The roaring nineties, Penguin books (Napvilág Kiadó, 2005) ALAN GREENSPAN The age of turbulence, The Penguin press (HVG Könyvek, 2008)

It is a welcome development that budgetary sustainability and transparency have become the focus of domestic professional discussions. The debates that have livened up in the wake of the international conference organised by the State Audit Office and the National Bank of Hungary on rule based...

The foremost question to clarify is what is meant by reforms or reform-equivalent changes. The authors of this study agree with the concepts that say it is the changes in the operation methods of a reformed system and the difference in the approach of entities participating in the system. An...