Improving the performance of public sector is the goal that is high on the policy agenda in almost all industrialized countries. Policy makers in individual countries are increasingly aware of the need to know how they are doing relative to the competition. But, the measuring public performance...

Before 1990, the services of general interest (SeGI) in Romania were entirely provided by the public authorities. Afterwards, the market was gradually liberalized and the SeGI captured the attention of private operators. Nowadays, the business sector is involved next to the public authorities in...

Regionalisation was a large debated subject in Europe in the last twenty –five years. In the last two years there was a political will in Romania to led a territorial reform aiming to strength economic competitiveness and to raise the structural funds absorption. The present article aims to...

Starting from the role that services of general interest play within the territorial cohesion policy, this paper proposes a case study focusing on the sewage services, addressed from the perspective of users’ accessibility. The analysis is undertaken in the North-East region of Romania, being...

This article analyses the consultation process and its role in reforming the Romanian penitentiary system. Nowaday, the consultation process is considered an area where innovation and new approaches are most in evidence, involving new groups often ignored. The benefits of consultation are...

This article is devoted to public administration reform and proposes a series of measures to strengthen the effectiveness of the reform process through the modification or creation of new institutional structures and procedures at the highest level. The article includes a brief history of the...

Orice element si orice act al vietii urbane are un continut si un cost energetic. In toate epocile, orasul a fost un loc privilegiat, in care s-a concentrat cererea de energie. Principalele sectoare cu consum energetic, in mediul urban, sunt industria, menajele - la care se adauga in mod...

The effective municipal real estate management has a special significance to the East European countries, considering their major inheritance of municipal real estates from the former communist regime, which could represent an important generator of local revenues. This paper proposes a...

The existence of an efficient and democratic administration is one of the main criteria of defining the modernity of a country. At this moment, Romania has not such an administration. That is why a major priority of Romania is to achieve, in a few years, a real reform through which the public...

The paper aims to identify trends in the characteristics of the number of employees and the average salary in public administration in the last two election cycles in the period 2000-2008 compared with other sectors and proposes a series of three scenarios for the evolution of salaries in public...