Political changes in Czechoslovakia in 1989 brought, besides other problems, also question of reform of public administration. The need to separate centralized state administration from local and regional self-administration became part of election programs of victorious parties and movements during elections 1990. Individual political subjects already then because build their own models of public administration system. The contact points of the public administration reform and coexistence of minorities. From the aspect of interconnection of public administration and structure of Slovak society, following points, in our view, are very important: 1. a/ model of centralistic public administration with dominant governing power of state and self-administration in subordinant position which is controlled by state departments b/ decentralized model based on strong self-government 2. Understanding of role of local and regional self-administration Before local and regional self-administration is chosen, it is necessary to have a strategic concept of functions that should be performed by local and regional offices. In that regard, it is necessary to consider two options - should Slovakia import a model of public administration from the West and adapt it to domestic conditions, or chose an alternative of ''home product''. 3. Question of levels, respective segments of state administration and local self-administration, that is a structure of administration. This question accentuates the key problem of Hungarian minority position in Slovakia presently (and political struggle for this position) in general and from the aspect of interests of Hungarian minority. The basic of the problem is the fact that by fragmentation of individual political and administrative units is necessary to create more compact territorial structures, interconnecting points between local unit and center, that is inserted levels of administration (either state of local). This approach is called territorial - administrative integration or division. Administrative division of Slovakia in the proposals of the representatives of the Hungarian minority. The views of representatives of Hungarian minority on the position of Hungarian population living on Slovak territory (taking to consideration its territorial concentration) underwent a process of changes. Basically we can talk about four models. First model (after 1989) was not in favor of any particular model of self-government, but consider to be convenient guaranty of function of individual mutually interconnected self-governing units. The aim was with help of self-government reinforce identity of Hungarian minority. Second variant was based on idea of creation of territorial autonomy. This alternative arose as a result of Declaration of Sovereignty of Slovakia (in July 1992) and worries of Hungarian minority representative connected with an impact of Slovak independence. Idea of independent Slovakia was not supported by Hungarian political parties. By creation of autonomous region with majority of Hungarian inhabitants, the questions connected with Hungarian ethnic would be solved inside of autonomous territory. The third concept, gradually crystallized from the summer of 1991, considered a guaranty of representation in legislative and executive institutions for Hungarian citizens. The concept supposed creation of state, regional and local minority self-governments. Self-governments would have representative and executive authority. The realization of measures to the local level would be secured by so called Minority Law. According to fourth concept, accepted during The Fourth Congress of Coexistence Movement, the Hungarian minority was defined as the national community (as the part of Hungarian national community) and by the definition of relation of Slovaks and Hungarians not as minority and majority, but as two equal partners, this relation should be equal, guaranteeing equal rights between individual national communities, which together are creating the Slovak Republic. In connection with the reform of state administration, that is with growing government proposals for new territorial and administrative organization of Slovak Republic, all Hungarian parties in unison called for decentralization of state administration and requested transfer of authority to regions. They considered transfer of power to regions to be a basic condition for functioning of minorities in Slovakia. Present model of self-administrative unit, in view of Hungarian minority, is containing four basic points: cultural and school autonomy broadening of authority of territorial self-administrations and their unrestricted cooperation, that is regionalism definition of boundaries of self-administrative units in relation to minorities question of bilingualism, that is guarantee of language rights in bilingual regions General assumptions of the model creation of public administration in Slovakia. Terminological difference is serious obstacle for the comparison of public administration models in European countries. Only by standardization of common definitions there is possibility to achieve methodological coherency and understanding of key questions of creation and development of public administration in Slovakia. Terminological standardization would also enable to construct a comparative analysis. To evaluate historical role, avoid mistakes and utilize it's positive features, it is necessary to map terminologically in detail the ''territorial and administrative'' system, which existed in former Czechoslovakia. Only in this case the Czechoslovakian model can become an ''empirically testifiable'' historical phenomenon. In the case of Slovak Republic a possibility of local self-administration separated form state administrative can be contemplated. This arrangement would be guaranteed by constitutional law as it is in Czech Republic. However, there is always a question, if regions dominated by citizens of Hungarian nationality would accept local state administration without self-administrative dimension as it is in case of Czech Republic.
