Politicisation or Professionalization? Legal, Institutional and Personal Conditions of Political Governance 2006, 2010 Cover Image

Politizáció vagy professzionalizáció? A politikai kormányzás jogi, intézményi és személyi feltételei 2006, 2010
Politicisation or Professionalization? Legal, Institutional and Personal Conditions of Political Governance 2006, 2010

Author(s): Éva Ványi
Subject(s): Government/Political systems
Published by: MTA Politikai Tudományi Intézete
Keywords: Political governance; Hungarian government; composition of government; minister; state secretary; specialist; generalist; changing of government structure

Summary/Abstract: Political governance is an often used expression by politicians and researchers to characterize the Hungarian governance after 2010, although it got into public discourse after the second Gyurcsány government entered into office 2006. The aim of this paper is to examine who governed within the framework of political governance during the 2nd Gyurcsány and 2nd Orbán government in Hungary. Based on Hungarian laws not only ministers but also political state secretaries are the political leaders of governments so these two levels of leaders were investigated in this paper. The main question is how the new governance style impacts the composition of governments. Were the members of governments rather generalist or specialist politicians in the two cabinets? In relation to these questions the changing legal and institutional frameworks were also analysed. The findings show that the recruitment of ministers and state secretaries did not follow the same pattern and experience in specializations is needed in the context of political governance, too.

  • Issue Year: XXV/2016
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 87-110
  • Page Count: 24
  • Language: Hungarian