In recent years, researchers and health care professionals have shown an increasing interest in the health gain associated with breastfeeding and in the problems arising from bottle feeding. It seems that there has been an ideological shift towards the belief that breastfeeding is beneficial and...

The growing demand for services provided by Non-Governmental Organizations for Persons with Disabilities (NGOPD), the successive reductions in state financing and rising competition for funding have resulted in these organizations seeking out competitive advantages and improved performances....

The growing demand for services provided by Non-Governmental Organizations for Persons with Disabilities (NGOPD), the successive reductions in state financing and rising competition for funding have resulted in these organizations seeking out competitive advantages and improved performances....

Within the European Union order, the national public administrations play a very important role. They are responsible for the enforcement and the control of the execution of the policies of the European Communities, in all the states of the European Union, in the interest of the respective...

Intrinsic motivation is widely considered by public administration scholars as fundamental for the Public Service Motivation (PSM). In apparently contradiction with the theory of PSM, the extrinsic motivation techniques, such as financial incentives, function better in Romanian public...

Living in a rapidly changing society, where information travels with great speed and its upgrade is essential, we decided to approach certain aspects of e-democracy, as a dynamic way of citizen participation, using new Information and Communications Technologies.

The European Administrative Space (EAS) should be understood as the ‘environment in which the national administrations are called upon to assure homogeneous levels of service efficiency and quality'. It is important to learn from historical background in order to study the trends of the future...

The achievement of social and economic development involves three processes: the increase in gross domestic product per capita, the reduction of unemployment and increase of employment, the reduction of poverty and income inequalities. Directly related to that are the objectives of new EU member...

Depuis presque deux ans, on assiste en Grèce à une crise économique grave liée à une crise forte du secteur public qui remet en question des pratiques suivies dans l'action administrative, pratiques relatives aux modalités d'action de l'Administration, son efficacité, le contenu de la...

This paper analyzes the issue of continuation of public administration reform in Romania after the EU accession in 2007. More precisely, the authors take into consideration the civil service framework legislation and assess the degree in which it changed once the deadline for accession was...