TRANSPARENCY OF THE ROMANIAN LOCAL PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION

This paper addresses a broader issue related to transparency of decision-making and implementation of legislation in terms of public satisfaction in local government activity in some sectors from Bucharest. One of the most important objective of this paper is to see how much the public opinions are taken into account along the decision making process developed by the local public administration from Bucharest. Through the current research were primarily aimed to determine the degree of transparency in local government decision in Bucharest, on the example of a district mayors and barriers along the decision making process and how is working the communication process between local government and citizens. The first part of the paper provides information about the legislation about the transparency of the decision-making and access of the citizens to public information in the Romanian local public administration. The second part describes the hypotheses and research objectives. The third part contains information about the structure of the sample, followed by presentation of data obtained from the centralization of the questionnaire responses, which were processed and analyzed. The last part of the paper contains the main findings of research and the conclusions.