The contribution of sustainable public administration to the promotion of sustainable development is increasingly emphasized in the literature, including through an emerging and facilitating concept: collaborative administration. The sustainability of public organizations and of the public...

The pandemic crisis generated by the corona virus affected all the world and its social systems. They had to rapidly adapt and take drastic measures, in order to answer in an effective and efficient way to the virus dispersal. The most common answer was the lock down of many of the economic and...

The paper presents the impact of applying Regulation (EC) 1370/2007 of the European Parliament and of the Council on public passenger transport services by rail and by road, adopted with the goal of eliminating disparities between the transport enterprises in different Member States, on the...

The current volume represents the outcome of the International Conference “Comparative Public Administration and Management – Innovation, Change, Partnership in Social Media Era,” organised in Bucharest on 26th June 2015. The conference has been organised by the National University of...

In the recent years, the local authorities within the EU are facing a series of socio-economic and political challenges which they must adequately manage such as to ensure the increase of the quality of life of the citizens they represent: adaptation to the common market, reduction of the...

In the current political and economic context, highly sensitive, determined and influenced by the financial crisis which spreads all part of globalization coordinates, the state administrations themselves are put in a position to find new and effective solutions, in order to satisfy a wide range...

Today, the role of CIO in local government is becoming increasingly important. In the last 25 years there was among theorists and practitioners a significant increase in the volume of studies on the powers and role of the CIO in the public entities which are facing different challenges from...

In light of the growing public debt, the issue of debt sustainability has increasingly attracted attention. At least half of the EU countries will have to implement stringent fiscal consolidation programmes over the next few years in order to prevent already high public-debt-to-GDP ratios from a...