The study addresses the issue of the management of public institutions in Romania by reviewing the main approaches presented in the specialized literature. The research identifies and describes the characteristics and functions of the management of public institutions as well as the main...

Municipalities may have various motives for decisions on the mode of their task execution. Empirical studies – based on both public choice and transaction costs theory - have not yet provided a fully comprehensive explanation for municipal contracting out decisions. Therefore, we held...

Following EU directions, Slovenia would like to restore unified system of measuring efficiency and effectiveness in Public sector. Presentation will represent the situation of performance measurement in EU countries and there experiences. The unified performance measuring model is general enough...

This paper establishes connections between the frameworks of social provisioning and functional finance, and discusses a post-Keynesian – Institutionalist theory of the public sector that emerges out of these linkages. The concept of social provisioning has emerged out of Institutional...

The fundamental feature of private contracting is its relational nature. When faced with unforeseen or unexpected circumstances, private parties, as long as the relation remains worthwhile, adjust their required performance without the need for costly renegotiation or formal recontracting....

The present study uses examples from all three branches of Government - the Ministry of Finance, the ordinary courts, and the Congress in its budgetary role - to examine the institutional obstacles to their improved performance and the opportunities for targeted changes. It builds on recent...