Legal Formation of the National Self-Government in Hungary at the Turn of the 20th and 21st Centuries

Abstract

The article deals with the genesis and legislative evolution of the legal basis for the functioning of national self-government in Hungary during the political transition period. The issue is important because Hungary is one of the few countries with a model of so-called personal autonomy, and therefore national minority associations have a public-law character. Similar assumptions also guided the organizational and legal solutions found in Poland during the interwar period, which has also been presented. This is only one option of the legal and organizational position of national minorities in the state, the general characteristics of which are also the subject of the study. Hungary is also the only country with a multi-level Polish national government.