The Romanian public administration reform is on the working agenda of the governments since more than a decade and a half. Its objectives require a corps of professional civil servants, career civil servants, with adequate training, able to achieve a new interface within the relations with the...

The public sector continues to play a strategic role across the world and in the last thirty years there have been major shifts in approaches to its management. This text identifies the trends in public management and the effects these have had, as well as providing a broad overview to each topic.

For the time being, public management reform represents the concern of most states, no matter their development level, geographical and strategic position, membership to various supranational structures or political and social organisation systems. This process represents the topic of several...