Local Government

The financial legal status of local governments varies widely in time and space, as this system of governance is continuously changing and developing. The realization of financial independence needs a number of public financing instruments which can be present in various forms depending on the nature of the system. It is obvious that we cannot separate the municipal financial issues from the central government’s budget given that these are closely linked to each other through the financial connections between the layers of governance. Thanks to the changes in this dynamic, this topic is always current in financial legal circles and among economists, public finance specialists and experts dealing with this problematic issue. Read more... (Péter Bordás)

Nowadays the system of child protection needs to face and cope with many challenges. These challenges are stemming from different sources, including the efforts of the government to renew and reinforce the child protection system and the related enactments and codification, the resource requirements of the professionals involved in the work of child protection or the capacity of the system. It is obvious that the system has to react and respond to these challenges. Read more... (Imre Bertalan)

Governmental roles are facing new challenges again in the market-based economy. Both the welfare state and the socialistic state aimed to widen the scope of intervention, however their instruments and conditions were very different. In contrary to this situation, reactions of liberalism in the late 20^th century and regime changes aimed to minimize the power of the state.