Territorial development in today’s Romania: the strenuous quest for a European patterned regionalization

• Authors: Horaţiu Dan , Mircea Maniu

Title variants

PL

Rozwój terytorialny współczesnej Rumunii: trudne dążenia do realizacji europejskiego modelu regionalizacji

Abstracts

PL

Uzasadnieniem niniejszego artykułu jest fakt, że polityka regionalna, w pełnym europejskim znaczeniu tego słowa, nigdy nie była dokładnie realizowana w Rumunii od momentu przystąpienia do UE w 2007 roku. Nasze badania próbują ocenić, czy istnieją jakieś wstępne historyczne atuty, które mogłyby ułatwić proces nowoczesnej regionalizacji, a następnie zbadać polityki, które zostały oficjalnie wdrożone w celu dostosowania się do ogólnych ram rozwoju terytorialnego UE. Wreszcie badamy podejścia ad hoc kilku lokalnych administratorów publicznych w kraju, innowacyjne podejścia opracowane w celu naprawienia oczywistego braku spójności rządowych polityk publicznych w tej dziedzinie. W tym kontekście naszym celem jest porównanie ogólnego postępu kraju w kierunku prawdziwego rozwoju regionalnego z pewnymi krokami podjętymi ostatnio przez niektóre lokalne organy administracyjne, krokami, które już okazały się dochodowe dla kilku powiatów w północno-zachodniej Rumunii.

EN

The rationale of this paper would be extracted from the fact that a regional policy, in the full European patterned comprehensive sense, was never thoroughly pursued in Romania since joining EU in 2007. Our research try to evaluate if there are any preliminary historical assets in order to ease the process of modern regionalization and further on to investigate the policies that were officially implemented in order to comply with the overall EU territorial developmental framework. Last but not least we investigate the ad-hoc approaches of several of the local public administrators in the country, innovative approaches conceived in order to mend the evident lack of consistency of governmental public policies in this area. Within this respect our endeavor is to benchmark the overall progress of the country towards genuine regional development to some recently taken steps by some local administrative bodies, steps that already proved to be lucrative for a few counties in North-Western Romania.

Keywords

EN

regionalization; territorial development; local administration; regional policy

PL

regionalizacja; rozwój terytorialny; administracja lokalna; polityka regionalna

• Publisher: Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu
• Journal: Przegląd Politologiczny
• Year: 2021
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 17-26

Dates

published

2021

Contributors

author

Horaţiu Dan

• Uniwersytet Babeş-Bolyai w Cluj-Napoca, Rumunia

• https://orcid.org/0000000272147605

author

Mircea Maniu

• Uniwersytet Babeş-Bolyai w Cluj-Napoca, Rumunia

• https://orcid.org/0000000232045911

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Identifiers

DOI

10.14746/pp.2021.26.2.2

Biblioteka Nauki

1912311