Features and Territorial Differences of Community-led Local Developmentpolicy in Hungary

Abstract

Community-led local development can be the indicator of the maturity of the local society and shows the potential for self-organization and the level of social development. The details of the operation of the local society highlight the needs and the strengths of the settlement. In this article, I examine the first steps of implementing the CLLD tool funded by the European Union. I search for the main characteristics and the main differences of organization and operation of the local community in different parts of the country and try to identify if there is an interrelation between the standard of living, the socio-economic development and the manifestations of participated planning. I look for the answer if there are any differences in the adaptation of the principles founding a local action group in different partsof Hungary. The background of the theory is binary and based on the local attributes and territorial models, here the social and administrative characteristics are linked to territorial coordinates. Another question investigated is if any characteristics of the area or group of settlements can answer this phenomenon or everything happens only because of local factors and the answers can only be found in local dimensions. To find the answers, I only examined the basic data of the local action groups, not the special conditions of the local society.