In Europe, e-government is considered as one of the main goals for the future. Lately, we have witnessed the revolution in the provision of e-government services for citizens. Citizens benefit of e-government services, better access to information, improved interaction with government,...

The European Union has grown both terms of size, scope, impact on Member States and in European Union competencies, in particular since the 1990s with the exponential growth in number of members - from 12 to 15 to 25 now 27 and how many more? - with the completion of the Single Market and the...

This paper is intended as an introduction to the concept of "open source government". It presents the late as it draws from the open source software development. Starting from the identification of the open source (OS) model in a new generation of R&D management, the main objective is to examine...

The Europe two speeds is a reality that makes its presence felt, especially in the newly acceded countries. Although four years have passed since the last wave of accessions, we still speak about new EU countries, without taking into account the actual age but present discrepancies between...

The aim of the article is to explore the characteristics of the emerging administration of the states from the South-east Europe under the changes and reforms imposed by the European Union pressure and also to present what means these characteristics. EU throw his policies and strategies has a...

The public sector has been engaged for several years in a process of modernization, in order to meet the demands of the "citizen-consumer". The European Union is undergoing the same process, especially regarding the management of European funds. The financial and economic crisis, characterized...

In the past three decades, total quality management (TQM) has been appreciated as "fundamental modality in view to improve the activity in the public and private sectors" (Boyne and Walker, 2002, 1). For the time being, in public administrations, we witness an extension of the policies for...

Comparative Studies on the Administrative Convergence Revealed by National Strategies of Administrative Reform in Some South-Eastern European States

The development of the construction and enlargement of the European Union processes introduces new concepts to the specific terminology. Within a systemic framework, these concepts describe and summon the institutional and normative mechanisms sustained by this generous investigation. European...

The paper presents two distinc perspectives regarding the nature of explanation in science: the explanation based on the covering law model and the morfodynamic apprach, and tries to give the limits of their applicability. The first model offers a structure of the explanation based on logic...