Helyi népszavazások Magyarországon
Local Referendums in Hungary

Summary/Abstract: In our essay we made an attempt to define the role of the local referendum in the political system. We analised its function, its place in resolving of the conflict, and the participation of civilan population and the different organisations. We used our research in which we collected the data of three years (1999-2001) from newspapers. As a conclusion we found that the local referenda can be divided for four categories. We can distinguish: „settlement organisation”, „investment”, „environmental protection”, and „social” cases. The referenda represents different functions for political actors. Those referenda – initiaied by the civilan population and the different organisations – usually has protesting function, while the referenda – initiated by the local government – has the function of legitimising the decisions. We also found from our research that the civilan population and the local government usually were opponents. As a final conclusion we can claim that the local referendum is the additional part of the representative democracy and works as its correctional mechanism.

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