The Concept of Autonomous Local Governments and their Different Forms of Appearances in the Traditions of our National Public Law
The Concept of Autonomous Local Governments and their Different Forms of Appearances in the Traditions of our National Public Law

Summary/Abstract: The historical beginnings of the Hungarian local government system are rooted in the patrician castle counties and free royal towns of the Middle Ages. Although these local administrative units meant much more than the concept of local governments in the modern understanding of the concept. The unbroken and uncompromising county autonomy suddenly was challenged by the bourgeois state, and this clash caused the need to reform the whole system of local administration. In my short study, I wish to demonstrate this process through the deconstruction of the administrative system of the counties, taking extra care on the unique relationship between the government and the municipality.

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