Despite the fact that the European Administrative Space actually exists for quite a long time, the actual emancipation of the Commission from national governments has placed the development of such a space on a radically different trajectory. This new space seems to complement a basically...

Contemporary state administration is continuously challenged by the fast-changing national and international conditions. In modern states, administration on all levels of governance is continuously in the process of elaboration and adaptation to the changes that surround it. State administration...

The paper presents the significant progress in Bulgaria in the area of e-Governance directed at servicing all the needs of the stakeholders (citizens, business, public administration and social institutions). The innovative decisions are implemented by the wide use of Information and...

Prevailing opinions by OECD advisers addresses the process of changes in PA and the efforts towards ‘harmonization' between the domestic patterns and the new transferred principles of modernization as NPM - an universal panacea for the problems of public administrations in transition...

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...

This paper aims to develop a statistical tool to identify the factors indicating administrative convergence in Greece, in order to provide an insight into the latent structure of bureaucracy in the country. Based on the state-of-the-art which suggest that "the indicators of administrative...

Until the introduction of the full accrual accounting concept in 2008, the system of governmental and private non-profit organizations in Croatia was very inconsistent, but nevertheless, withstood for a long number of years. Most of the changes were brought in for the purpose of adjusting our...

European Union has been consistently described as a democratic polity, although arguments on its failure have been thoroughly analyzed (Featherstone, 1994; Follesdal & Hix, 2006). A. Lijphart's book on patterns of democracy (1999), for instance, supports the idea that EU is built upon consensual...

Transparency is considered as a fundamental principle that can be found in administrative law across all European countries and is a part of the acquis communautaire. It is one of these principles that allow us to speak about convergence amongst national administrations, emergence of a...

In the times of demise of nation states, emergence of diverse social risks and the Europeanization of policy processes, civil society organizations are expected to take a role in policy - making and service delivery. Over time, the EU has developed different policies towards organized civil...