EU expansion has mainly reduced the capacity of Balkan states of adjusting their administrative structures and models promoted by the EU standards. The discussions around this theme are founded on traditions, economic, social, cultural, administrative values of the states in the Balkans in...

This paper addresses the public problems related to the Romanian case. I have tried to demonstrate that a major problem related to public policy is the government responsiveness. Responsiveness in the context of a system can be defined as an outcome that can be achieved when institutions and...

The organizations of the non-profit sector are sometimes considered pillars of the (re)construction of „ civil society", other times, components of „ social economy" and, every time, organizations of the non-governmental sector that answer the needs of free association of citizens or...

This paper deals with the issue of the relationship between politics and public administrations adopting new public management criteria, or rather between political and managerial level , in order to identify the real capacity of public managers to carry out independent choices regarding...

. In a world of permanent change and movement with interconnected actions that create interdependences, the institutions and administrative systems should be flexible and transparent to adapt their selves to these changes and to create the necessary framework for developing in good conditions...

The essential task of the function model of a quality oriented public administrational organisation is to get an answer for a fundamental question: Since the clerks work like cogwheels in this organisation, what are the clerks' limits, adaptation abilities, work culture, and what are the...

The current volume reproduces papers presented in the Workshop which was organized in Athens, in February 2010 by the European Public Law Organization (EPLO) and the Faculty of Public Administration – National School of Political Studies and Public Administration (NSPSPA), Bucharest. The...

The European Administrative Space (EAS) should be understood as the ‘environment in which the national administrations are called upon to assure homogeneous levels of service efficiency and quality'. It is important to learn from historical background in order to study the trends of the future...

It is a known fact that ethical conduct and ethical behavior of public servants at all hierarchical levels is a must for a modern and performance oriented public administration. It is also a known fact that ethical guidelines are the same all over the European Union. This guidelines are being...

How and to what extent have European ideas transformed the political-administrative institutions in the candidate countries in the East? Which conditions work to mitigate and undermine the impact of the European Union (EU) in these contexts? Research on post-communist transformations, by and...