The Central and Eastern European states, recently accessed or acceding to the European Union are undergoing civil service reform processes incorporated in the general public administration reforms. Based on the necessity to promote good governance, the strategies of reform have been designed and...

The current paper approaches the theoretical and practical fundamental issues concerning the use of meritocratic criteria in public performance evaluation. Based on papers dealing with the meritocratic approach for the creation and development of a civil service system or papers applying the...

Nowadays, the curricular development is situated in the area of significant changes of higher education, bearing the mark of society demand and profession development on labour market. In this context, actions such as: change of higher education structure, development of quality assurance...

The transformations occurring in the last years in the international area have strongly affected the European administrative space. The national administrations are facing multiple problems concerning the financial, human, technological, etc. resources, and in this context, the public services...

Since the conceptual framework of the European Administrative Space (EAS) in 1990s, at least two convergent trends may be found out. The first trend refers to EAS operationalisation as instrument and mechanism for assessing the reforms of the national public administrations. Herewith, we refer...

The concepts and approaches of public marketing are moreover used and quantified in the national and European public systems. Adapted, with behaviours specific to the public system, the fundamental concepts of marketing represent a component of "the new culture of public service". The paper aims...

The social enterprise knows a dynamic of organization and functioning, under different legal forms, starting from NGO to enterprise, covering the domain of public services, functioning independently or in public sector - private sector partnership. It plays a dominant role in the economic...

Although the primary purpose of evaluation is to improve the quality of programs by identifying theirs strengths and weaknesses, its roles becomes more instrumental in determining the fate of crucial policies and programs, when stakeholders and constituents are politically sensitive towards a...

The volume contains the papers presented during the 9th International Congress of the International Association on Public and Nonprofit Marketing (IAPNM) entitled "Regulation and Best Practices in Public and Nonprofit Marketing." Structured in accordance with the sessions of the mentioned...

The paper approaches a topic of high actuality concerning the professionalisation of public management, process that could lead to setting up a corps of civil servants, substantiated on meritocratic criteria, political equidistance. In the context of knowledge-based society, the paper presents...