%0 Journal Article
%T A New Doctrine in the Making? Doctrinal Foundations of Sub
%A Gy£¿rgy Hajnal
%A Mikl¨®s Rosta
%J Administration & Society
%@ 1552-3039
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/0095399715626202
%X The study attempts to reveal the doctrinal foundations of Hungary¡¯s sweeping sub-national governance reforms (SGRs) that took place in the period 2010-2014. It compares actual SGRs with internationally mainstream doctrines of major contemporary reform, to determine the extent to and the ways in which Hungarian SGRs are a mixture of these trends as opposed to being a novel paradigm of its own. The study concludes that Hungary¡¯s reform path substantially diverges from all three major reform paradigms examined¡ªthat is, New Public Management, New Public Governance, and the Neo-Weberian State. We end with the proposition that this deviation is not of an unintended or accidental nature; rather, it seems to be part of a coherent and rationally pursued vision of (sub-national) governance, possibly referred to as ¡°illiberal.
%K Hungarian sub-national governance reforms
%K illiberal governance
%K New Public Management
%K New Public Governance
%K Neo-Weberian State
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0095399715626202