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Miscellanea Geographica
Volume 25 (2021): Issue 1 (January 2021)
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Municipal splits
and hidden amalgamations in Hungary
Gábor Dobos
Gábor Dobos
| Nov 17, 2020
Miscellanea Geographica
Volume 25 (2021): Issue 1 (January 2021)
Thematic Issue: Re-inventing territorial organization of the local tier: municipal splits in Central and Eastern Europe. Guest Editors: Pawel Swianiewicz, Katarzyna Szmigiel-Rawska
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Published Online:
Nov 17, 2020
Page range:
37 - 45
Received:
Apr 27, 2020
Accepted:
Jul 01, 2020
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.2478/mgrsd-2020-0035
Keywords
Local government
,
municipal split
,
local reform
,
Hungary
© 2021 Gábor Dobos, published by Sciendo
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.
Figure 1
Number of Hungarian local government authorities by population (2019) Source: Hungarian Central Statistical Office (n.d. a)
Figure 2
Municipal splits in Hungary (1990-2019) Source: own calculation based on National Election Office data (n.d. b)
Figure 3
Population characteristics of Hungarian municipal splits (1990-2019) Source: own calculation based on Hungarian Central Statistical Office data (d. b)
Figure 4
Secession processes in Hungary (1999-2019) Source: own elaboration
Figure 5
Autonomy of Hungarian local government authorities in international comparison (1990-2014) Source: own elaboration based on Ladner et al. (2019)
Territorial reforms in the Communist regime (1950-1990)
Year
Number of settlements
Number of councils
1950
3,229
3,032
1960
3,273
3,087
1970
3,244
2,294
1975
3,183
1,711
1980
3,122
1,525
1985
3,064
1,486
1990
3,070
1,586