Önkormányzatból hivatal? : Szapáry Gyula szerepe a megyerendszer etatista modernizációjában

Dobszay, Tamás (2023) Önkormányzatból hivatal? : Szapáry Gyula szerepe a megyerendszer etatista modernizációjában. PONTES - A PTE BTK TÖRTÉNETTUDOMÁNYI INTÉZETÉNEK ÉVKÖNYVE, 6. pp. 186-208. ISSN 2631-0015

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Abstract

T h e study examines the chief steps of Hungarian public administration’s modernisation during the period of dualism, and the role of Gyula Szapáry as a government offi cial, Minister of the Interior and later Prime Minister in the aforementioned process. He had to regulate a disobedient county, as the county under his authority managed to make a stance against the dualist compromise. In consequence of this former experience and his personal views, Szapáry supported and represented the government’s eff orts to modernise the counties on conservative social foundations and with a step towards centralisation. As Minister of the Interior he initiated the redefi nition of county boundaries, with a crude enforcement of bureaucratic rationalization and without the respect for traditions. As Prime Minster, he attempted to nationalise the municipal-system by transforming the elected county deputy offi cers into an appointed bureaucracy. His eff orts were so much opposed by public opinion, that he could not push his government bills through.

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