ABSTRACT
Hungarian civil service regulation has a long history, fraught with the excessively broad domestic concept of public service relationships (közszolgálat), resulting in an aspiration for uniform regulation in the field and a concomitant failure to achieve it. The ensuing regulatory landscape is complicated and characterised by parallel forces of convergence and differentiation. This chapter describes civil service regulation efforts in recent decades and emerging trends of differentiation introduced to accommodate public employer profiles and tentative privatisation trends to respond to varying professional personnel needs in the different public sectors.
