The paper presents the impact of applying Regulation (EC) 1370/2007 of the European Parliament and of the Council on public passenger transport services by rail and by road, adopted with the goal of eliminating disparities between the transport enterprises in different Member States, on the...

The contribution of sustainable public administration to the promotion of sustainable development is increasingly emphasized in the literature, including through an emerging and facilitating concept: collaborative administration. The sustainability of public organizations and of the public...

In a modern Europe, it is imperative to have a traditional administration of the interests and problems concerning local groups, based on an organizational culture focused on excellence and performance but also on a correct dimensioning of institutional functions and competences. The research...

The pandemic crisis generated by the corona virus affected all the world and its social systems. They had to rapidly adapt and take drastic measures, in order to answer in an effective and efficient way to the virus dispersal. The most common answer was the lock down of many of the economic and...

Prevailing opinions by OECD advisers addresses the process of changes in PA and the efforts towards ‘harmonization' between the domestic patterns and the new transferred principles of modernization as NPM - an universal panacea for the problems of public administrations in transition...

A general trend is easily observable in the literature on public administration reforms in post-communist countries and it consists in analyses of the degree of adoption and success of the New Public Management (NPM) model. A relevant implementation gap for some areas of reform which cannot be...

Research on administrative reform in Europe has demonstrated a significant variation among countries in how they choose reform strategy. We know very little about what explains the variation with regard to the extent with which the countries conduct the reforms and how they effectively...