It has been argued that greater transparency is needed to reduce corruption. One way of increasing transparency is through the adoption of Freedom of Information (FOI) laws. This paper uses the introduction of FOI laws as a natural experiment to determine their effect on corruption. Using a...

European Cohesion Policy and its Structural Funds, involving all EU Regions and Member States, are a well-suited context to verify the presence of different approaches to the publication of Open Government Data, a crucial tool to foster governmental transparency and accountability. Following the...

The necessity for change in the management of the public sector is obvious and irrefutable. W. Kieżun criticized the current state of public administration in Poland very strongly finding it brimming in "gigantomania" (excessive development of organizational structures), "luxury-mania" (the...

Corruption is an issue of increasing visibility in the academic and policy literature on governance and public policy. Whilst it is often talked about, there appears to be some lack of clarity on both its nature and the nature of its determinants. This has led to some increase in the effort to...

The local economical development is part of the general logic for the decentralization process, offering substance to the local autonomy, because we can’t assure at local level only the obligation for the assurance of administrative activities, keeping at the same time the economic levers in...

What are the income inequality sources for local governments? In this paper is analyzed the case of Lima government incomes (transfers from Central Government) and it is found that they are all highly unequal. This outcome implies that not only mining taxes transfers are unequal, but also the...

The paper looks a China's institutional reforms in public finances against the background of European experiences. Particular attention is given to Switzerland and Germany where there is a high degree of consensus forming mechanisms. These federations are also characterized by concepts of...

In the current paper, we aim to formulate the objectives, contents and syllabus of a discipline that will approach the complex issue of evaluating the economic and social impact of public administration Europeanization in a methodological and educational way. The research topic is new on one...

The action research described in this article has produced a first integrated set of actions to lay the foundations for local development cooperative. In particular, we sought to broaden and strengthen the network of actors (institutions, associations, businesses, education, training...

The article conveys a series of features of the public administration by using some econometric models. In order to estimate the parameters, we used a series of data registered from a illustrative sample of civil servants. With the aim of analysing the corruption, there are used various...