The current volume represents the outcome of the international conference “National and European Values of Public Administration in the Balkans,” organised in Bucharest on 15-16 July 2011. The conference has been organised by Jean Monnet research network dedicated to “South-Eastern...

The efficiency of the rational allocation process of public resources represents a constant issue for both scholars and practitioners, under the European and global requirements set up by International Monetary Fund, European Commission and OECD agendas. In Romania, among the objectives of local...

The contents of this paper builds on the used methodology based on the consultancy studies made at several organisms and authorities of the Public Administration, which have been realized on the general framework of nationally financed projects or from direct contracts with entities from this...

If twenty years ago the financial activities of any Romanian enterprise were the sole responsibility of the accountant, nowadays the relationships of the economical entities within theirselves and with their environment are too complex to be handled just by accounting departments. Around...

There are two points of view on the performance of the public administration: an internal one, governed by the principle of the three “E”’s and an external one, a measure of the public accessibility to the civil service. The problem with these two points of view in that, although they show...

The public administration is subject to major changes, due to major changes within the Romanian society and ever growing requirements of efficiency, effectiveness and economy. Given a certain conflict between support activities which are at times most expensive and these requirements, a race is...

Romanian public administration and new public management are in need of a series of modernization actions resulted from theoretical progresses on European level whose application proved to have positive effects. Among these modernization actions a focus on the following aspects must be...