Structure of the Personal Social Services in Hungary

Theoretical and Applied Law, 2020. No. 3(5). Pp. 6-17

12 Pages Posted: 12 Apr 2021

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István Hoffman

Eötvös Loránd University - Faculty of Law

Date Written: September 16, 2020

Abstract

The Russian version of this paper can be found at https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3698546

The article reviews the changes of the service provision system, especially the structure of the Hungarian social care. Firstly, theoretical and international backgrounds of the topic are shown. Secondly, the article presents the transformation of the Hungarian social care in the last decades. Here, a tendency of concentration and centralization can be observed. Thirdly, the mixed nature of the Hungarian municipal social care system is analyzed, which system have been strongly centralized in the last five years. The effects of the centralization are analyzed as well, the article shows, that the changes of the funding have the most significant impact on the spatial structure of the service provision.

Keywords: social care, municipal social care, funding, centralisation, concentration, spatial structure

Suggested Citation

Hoffman, István, Structure of the Personal Social Services in Hungary (September 16, 2020). Theoretical and Applied Law, 2020. No. 3(5). Pp. 6-17, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3813127

István Hoffman (Contact Author)

Eötvös Loránd University - Faculty of Law ( email )

Budapest
Hungary

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