This paper is trying to establish, in Romania, at macroeconomic level, quantitative and qualitative, relations between gross domestic product and governmental and local revenues.

This paper investigates how Beijing governs its two special administrative regions (SARs) of Hong Kong and Macau through leverages on their local autonomy. First, a conceptual analysis of local autonomy will be provided. Local autonomy is more than a zero-sum game between the central and local...

Perennial on the agenda of post-communist governments, the subject of decentralization remains one pending clarification. The present paper represents an attempt at critically and comparatively examining the theoretical endeavors of conceptualizing and operationalizing the notion of...

Local economic development (LED) strategies are increasingly being recommended as an alternative or a complement to traditional development strategies. However, beyond a limited number of areas where ‘best practices’ have been identified, there has been little systematic monitoring of...

Relevant aspects of the local autonomy are analysed, as well as the public services traits within the City Hall, by using longitude methods, starting the study at hand with a retrospective and contextual analysis of how this evolution took place both nationally and internationally. The paper at...

The demarcation of the content and the purpose of the concept of public administration has not only theoretical importance but also a practical one regarding the field of the right of a person aggrieved by a public authority, on the one hand, and administrative litigation area, on the other...

Local governments in Japan account for about 80 per cent of general government spending when excluding social security expenditures. Therefore, for the implementation of fiscal policy it is important how local governments will behave. On the basis of the economic theories on fiscal federalism it...

In this paper we try to analyse each of the principles on which local public administration is based in Romania. After describing their content we have tried to point out, in a critical manner, some of the aspects regarding these principles, aspects that are not yet very clear.We refer here to...

The basic component of local public finances is the local budget, defined as the document through which annual revenue and expenditure of administrative-territorial units are provided and approved. By means of local budgets, the activity of local public finances is designed and operated, local...

Decentralization process manifested in all its forms, administrative decentralization,(the fundamental principle of organizing and functioning of public administration), political decentralization, territorial decentralization, technical (on public services) and financial decentralization is one...