Az országképviselet problémája a neoabszolutizmus-kori Magyarországon
Country representation in neoabsolutist Hungary

Summary/Abstract: The royal rescript attached to the New Year's Eve patent issued on December 31, 1851 decreed the establishment of country statutes and, on the level of lieutenancies and local authorities, the establishment of councils. One of the most important and unsuccessful reforms of the neoabsolutist regime was this controversial attempt to establish representative bodies with consultation rights inside an autocratic system. The paper provides insights into the structure of country representation in Hungary in the mid-1850s as well as into the process of political and administrative preparation of the system. Based on recently analyzed archival sources, it attributes the failure of the attempt (in addition to the causes mentioned in the literature) to the absence of interest from the Hungarian party. The intention of establishing representative bodies, unlike other neoabsolutist administrative measures, eventually had no lasting influence in Hungary.

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