Intrinsic motivation is widely considered by public administration scholars as fundamental for the Public Service …

of EU instruments in problematic domestic environments, focusing on the case of public administration reform in Albania …The process of EU enlargement involves conditioning, assisting, monitoring and checking a candidate country’s capacity … to be an EU member. Those instruments have been largely credited to impact institutional change in the candidate …

The paper achieves an analysis of some issues concerning the changes in the Romanian public administration in the … practical mechanisms. Concerning the Romanian public administration, the analysis starts with the reform process, on local and …

consideration its recognised impact on the efficiency of public administration, one of EAS fundamental principles (Zurga, 2008, 39 … Wageman, 1995, 318-319). By a comparative analysis on TQM policies in the national public administrations of Balkan states, EU … and team work (Boyne and Walker, 2002, 4-5). The tradition on promoting TQM in public administration in the above …

to which this principle is relevant in the work of the Committee on State Administration and Local Authorities of the …

enlargement should depend on institutional convergence between the EU and potential accession candidates. Therefore, the paper … looks at institutional quality in the EU, in the EU’s neighboring Balkan and Black Sea regions, and especially in Bulgaria …, Romania, Croatia, Turkey, and Ukraine, i.e. the next countries in the queue for entry or likely to lobby for entry into the EU …