Despite of variety of changes and interests in PA citizen’s relationships, the commitments in public service delivery are more ‘customer oriented’. With the development of the New Public Management paradigm and public sector reforms, a new model of Public Administration- citizen’s...

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...

The current pace of European integration reforms in Romania gives us the opportunity to analyze the way different social entities encapsulated values and principles emerged from the European policies. For any state, and especially for the ones newly adhered to the European Union, public...

Among different sociological concepts and theories applicable to the study of the process of Europeanization of public administration, internalization is but seldom to be encountered. The internalization of the principles of the European Administrative Space (EAS) in the national public...

The social enterprise knows a dynamic of organization and functioning, under different legal forms, starting from NGO to enterprise, covering the domain of public services, functioning independently or in public sector - private sector partnership. It plays a dominant role in the economic...

The paper describes the legislative context of the practices and modalities for organising the education in the field of public administration in Romania. The questions addressed are as follows: I. Education of actual and future administrators/civil servants II. Competences developed by MPA...

The paper achieves an analysis of some issues concerning the changes in the Romanian public administration in the context of integration into the European Union. The most important processes approach Europeanization and its theoretical and practical mechanisms. Concerning the Romanian public...

Public services represent useful activities designated to meet a social need. Laws and regulations empower public service activities without indicating the motives for these services. The diversity of social requirements necessitates making a distinction between public services and services of...