New Public Management has emerged as a reaction to the traditional model of public administration, a bureaucratic, hierarchical, rigid, inefficient model, which led to the distancing of government from citizens. Public organizations which were organized by the traditional, bureaucratic model...

Coding steps aimed at ensuring greater legal certainty and a better accessibility of law, in accordance with constitutional requirements related to ensuring voting rights. The "code" is a coherent body of texts encompassing, according to a systematic plan, all rules relating to a subject....

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...

This paper addresses the issue of public sanitation increase performance by improving its quality in order to maximize individual welfare of citizens by increasing democratization and public participation in administrative decisions. Cleaning public service performance depends to a local public...

Within the European Union order, the national public administrations play a very important role. They are responsible for the enforcement and the control of the execution of the policies of the European Communities, in all the states of the European Union, in the interest of the respective...

Within the European Union order, the national states play a very important role. They are responsible for the enforcement and the control of the execution of the policies of the European Communities. Although the European Union has a central administration, she doesn't have external agencies....

A new democratic tool, the European Citizens' Initiative (ECI), starting with April 2012, will allow one million European Union (EU) citizens to ask the European Commission to propose EU legislation. The ECI could thus create a new space inside the EU policy-making machine for ordinary EU...

Through its policy, the EU plans to create a European area of freedom, security and justice where there is no need to check on persons at internal borders; European citizens benefit from the fundamental right to move and settle wherever they wish. Directive 2004/38/EC on the right of citizens of...

The concept of "unified" or "homogeneous" state authority (in which the local authorities act as representatives of the central government, equivocally subordinated to its directive and control) was rejected and replaced with a dual system, in which the state and the local management act each in...