Politicisation, professionalisation, or both? Hungary's civil service system

Dados Bibliográficos

ID6180660
AutoresGyörgy Gajduschek (0000-0002-6211-5183, Hungarian Institute of Public Administration, Alkotmany u. 25, H-1054 Budapest, Hungary, autor correspondente)
Ano2007
Volume40
Fascículo3
Páginas343-362
Data de publicação2007-09-01
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoCommunist and Post-Communist Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0967-067X • E-ISSN: 1873-6920
EditoraUniversity of California Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1016/j.postcomstud.2007.06.004
OpenAlexW2049066899
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas13
Referências citadas7

This paper aims to determine where the Hungarian civil service system might be situated on an imaginary merit system – spoils system scale. In doing so, the Hungarian system is analyzed from two angles. Firstly, regulation is scrutinized as it is manifested in the Civil Service Act. Secondly, practice is examined relying on available statistical and survey data. The author argues that, contrary to the conclusions of most of scholarly publications, the Hungarian Law is a pseudo-merit system law, not in fact preventing the prevalence of a spoils system. Practice generally reveals, however, features of a modestly politicized system with signs of increasing professionalization. The last two sections investigate the potential explanations for these somewhat surprising findings and whether the findings for the Hungarian civil service may be generalized to some or most of the Central and East European countries

Cartography · Civil law (Civil law) · Civil service · Economics · Economy · Geography · Political science · Professionalization · Public law · Public service · Scale (ratio) · Service (business) · Service system · Situated · Sociology · The Imaginary · Computer Science · Hungarian Social, Economic and Educational Studies · Law · Psychology · Russia and Soviet political economy · Social Policy and Reform Studies