Pregledni rad
https://doi.org/10.31297/hkju.24.1.6
“No Countries for Municipalities?” – Old and New Faces of Centralisation in the Time of Crisis
István Hoffman
orcid.org/0000-0002-6394-1516
; Faculty of Law, Eötvös Loránd University and HUN-REN Centre for Social Sciences, Institute for Legal Studies, Budapest, Hungary
Sažetak
It is a “cliché” in the administrative sciences that centralisation tendencies are accelerated by crises. Public service provision and administration have been transformed by the digitalisation and application of ICT. My article will focus mainly on the impact of these changes on regulatory issues. New approaches have evolved: centralisation and concentration have new “faces”, and a soft divergence between different European countries can also be observed. “Soft power” issues, like regulation and standards of public service provision and central financial tools have become new elements of centralisation reforms, and the concentration of local public services and local administration has become a new issue, especially in Northern and Western Europe. Similarly, the “platformisation” of local services can be interpreted as a new form of centralisation: the data required for these activities are centrally managed, and the access to these data is defined by the central governments. A “Northern” and “Southern/Eastern”
approach to centralisation can be distinguished. The Northern pattern is based on new forms of centralisation, and the “traditional” forms of centralisation have a more significant influence on the Southern approach (however, new forms of
centralisation can be observed as well).
Ključne riječi
centralisation; decentralisation; digitalisation; fiscal decentralisation; regional development; public service provision; concentration
Hrčak ID:
316547
URI
Datum izdavanja:
30.4.2024.
Posjeta: 83 *