Government Capacity and Capacity-Building in Hungary: A New Model in the Making ?

Government Capacity and Capacity-Building in Hungary: A New Model in the Making ?Th e central importance of capacity-building is to improve the government's ability "to evaluate and address crucial questions related to policy choices and modes of implementation among development options -based on an understanding of potentials and limits, as well as the needs perceived by the people of the country concerned" (UN 1992).Th e above-mentioned fi ve issues are discussed in this paper in order to show how contextual factors aff ect central government capacity.Th e individual chapters will fi rstly expose the connection of the topic to the overall issue of administrative capacity.In the second sub-section we proceed to describing the developments in the given reform area over the past 15 -20 years.Th e reason for the extended time scope of this overview is that many of the recent reforms and changes are deeply connected to, and rooted in, dysfunctions and (partly failed) reform attempts of the preceding early years of the post-transition period.In the third sub-section the performance in the given fi eld is refl ected by indicators of relating international rankings and comparisons.