European countries in the period 1993-2015. The dependent variable is the average satisfaction with democracy, while the reform … reforms and even be less satisfied with democracy as such. We test this hypothesis empirically, using panel data from 30 …. Our results indicate that while reforms of government size are not robustly related to satisfaction with democracy …

The paper outlines the role of e-government as the main action in order to reform Romanian public services. E … evolution at the European Unions’ level. The findings of this study disclose that e-government is the main action to reform …

questionable how effective these attempts have been to date. Corruption has a complex relationship with public sector reform …. Reform is often executed which has as one of its objectives the control of corruption, but reform itself may be a cause of … corruption according to some evidence from recent rounds of economic and public sector reform. The nature of the relationship is …

The challenge of public administration reform is well-known: politicians often have little interest in the efficient … implementation of government policy. Using new data from 439 World Bank public sector reform loans in 109 countries, we demonstrate … second mechanism through which non-programmatic parties undermine public sector reform: clientelistic politicians have weaker …

aimed at approaching these ideas in the context of the impact of the reform process on the public administration in the …

reforms. Democracy may be conducive to reform, as politicians embrace growth-enhancing reforms to win elections. On the other …We use a sample of 144 countries over the period 2003-2013 to investigate the link between democracy and regulatory … World Bank’s Doing Business database. The results provide some support for the hypothesis that democracy is good for …

the determinants of reforms, is original in the sense that for questions of reform, the democracy factor had not yet been …This paper questions the effect of democracy on regulatory reforms by mainly checking whether the observed differences … democracy. Our results, based primarily on the Oaxaca - Blinder decomposition approach, suggest that democracy is not the basis …