This paper argues that methodological pluralism, as currently deployed in interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research, can benefit from better integrating reflexive processes. In particular, reflexivity can facilitate meaningful and problem-specific ways of combining methods across...

Bioprospection practices have proliferated as biotechnological and pharmaceutical companies engage in the collection and genetic screening of biological and genetic resources throughout the world. The purpose of this article is to examine the competing proposals for the institutional framing of...

Romanian Journal of Public Affairs is aiming to promote interdisciplinary research in governance, public administration, public affairs, public policy, law, economics and finance, following the philosophy of international interdisciplinary journals.This number of the journal contains the...

The dominant understanding of how motivations to contribute to public goods are generated and sustained is largely shaped by the combined action of rational choice theory and neoclassical economics. This understanding relies on three key assumptions: individualism, instrumentalism and market...

Romanian Journal of Public Affairs is aiming to promote interdisciplinary research in governance, public administration, public affairs, public policy, law, economics and finance, following the philosophy of international interdisciplinary journals.This number of the journal contains the...

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...

The article proposes a critical analysis of an influential perspective on practical rationality, based on the assumption that the rationality of decisions and actions can be, in principle, perfectly defined by applying a set of formal criteria of unidirectional adequacy of means to ends. Our...

Preventing corruption and improving the public service management are the main goals of the promotion of ethical standards for the civil servants. Several governments have revised their policies regarding the ethical conduct in the public service, implying both the corruption issue and the...