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Quality of Government and Decentralization in Romania

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Bondar F.
International Review of Social Research
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2014
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vol. 4
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issue 1
5-26
EN
The article explores the effects of the decentralization process in Romania as part of the public administration reform, using a set of financial indicators revealing the territorial distribution of the capacity of local public administration to provide public services. These indicators are then correlated with quality of government and government effectiveness indexes at national level. As a result, the analysis reflects a territorial variation of financial independence of administrative units that can be explained by assuming the differences in the institutional set-up of different communities at local level. These results were used further to formulate a perspective on the decentralization process in Romania based on the assumption of non-homogeneity of socio-economic development of different regions in Romania.
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Organizational and Managerial Challenges of Reforming Slovenian Public Agencies

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Kovač P.
Organizacija
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2014
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vol. 47
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issue 4
281-294
EN
Introduction: Agencies are among the key contemporary public organizations, prospering within reforms carried out worldwide to increase professionalism and rationalism in public administration (PA). Hence, countries have been establishing agencies and delegating them public tasks in order to achieve expertise-based instead of politically-driven and thus more efficient public policies. In such context, the present article addresses the most important strategic documents related to public administration reform (PAR) in Slovenia, analyzing their goals in terms of agencification and the main implementation results and gaps. Research Design: The research is dedicated to exploring the governmental approach to agencification as a key aspect of PAR. It analyzes (1) the main PAR strategic documents on public agencies in Slovenia since the mid-90s, and (2) the perceived implementation of structural and managerial autonomy as the declared goal of agencification. Combined research methods are applied, including descriptive analysis, regional comparisons, structural interviews among representatives of public agencies and their parent ministries, and selected statistical data analysis. Results: As proven by different research methods, the hypothesis whereby agencification goals in Slovenia are largely achieved as part of PAR documents in terms of autonomous organizational structure was confirmed. A more elaborated agencification in PAR documents relates to higher implementation of autonomy. Conclusion: Nevertheless, the professionalism of Slovenian agencies is still an on-going process, particularly as regards the efficiency implementation gap. As for the future, a more consistent PAR incorporating cross-sectoral policy on agencies is required to pursue the development of a democratic and efficient PA.
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Założenia reformy administracji publicznej z 1998 roku ze szczególnym uwzględnieniem województwa samorządowego

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Pijewski M.
Przegląd Prawa Publicznego
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2012
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issue 5
94-108
EN
This paper presents the issues of the basic premises and values of the 1998 public administration reform. It attempts to comprehensively present the idea of a political reform in Poland. Moreover, the article touches upon the issues of the political breakthrough of 1989 which led to the restitution of the municipality self-government. Pursuant to the act of March 8, 1990 on local self-government (currently the act on municipality self-government), the then-existing system of national councils was replaced by a system of municipality self-government based on different premises. The act departed from the system of uniform state authority. Specific municipalities returned to the organizational and political system of the country. Establishing municipalities was the first element in reforming Polish public administration. In 1997 the idea of a local self-government was raised to the rank of constitutional founding rules (Constitution of the Republic of Poland from April 2, 1997). The two-tier territorial division existing until 1998 presented many irregularities. Provinces as territorial units were not regions in the geographic, spatial nor historic meaning. There was a large economic diversification between specific provinces. Next to wealthy provinces there were those without financial means necessary for development. Governors were not authentic hosts of the region; they were merely field representatives of the government and the Council of Ministers did not run inter-regional politics. Thus, it became necessary to clearly divide responsibility among local, regional and central bodies of public authority. In 1998, further decentralization of tasks and competences occurred in favor of the territorial self-government. Further tiers of territorial self-government were created,which was coherent with the fundamental purpose of the reform, i.e. with restoring a three-tier territorial division including municipalities, districts and provinces. Next to municipalities, districts became the second unit of local authorities whose tasks exceed the possibilities of a municipality. However, they were not equipped with supervising competences over municipalities. The district became a type of ‘link’ between the municipality and the state administration. As a result of the 1998 reform, the notion of ‘province’ was maintained in Polish legislation. The term was given a broader meaning in comparison to the previous legal regulation – the act of March 22, 1990 on territorial bodies of state administration. Currently, ‘province’ denotes mainly a unit of state territorial division, aspecified territory encompassing an area of several districts and, at the same time, the largest unit of state division for the purposes of public administration. The assumption accompanying the 1998 decentralization reform was for self-governing provinces to become counterparts of regions in European countries. The public administration reform cannot be deemed as a finished process because there is no ‘final’ political model. The political state changes dynamically; thus, the need to carry out reforms will appear every now and then.
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Restytucja samorządu lokalnego i regionalnego w państwach Europy Środkowej i Wschodniej

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Wojnicki J.
Eastern Review
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2018
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vol. 7
31-47
RU
Статья посвящена восстановлению местного и регионального самоуправления в странах Центральной и Восточной Европы. Он показывает основные направления формирования администрации местного самоуправления в обсуждаемых постком-мунистических странах. Предметом анализа является группа из пяти стран: Чехия, Словакия, Венгрия, Болгария и Румыния. Иногда на фоне представленных анализовсамоуправления мы также находим польские темы.
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The article is devoted to the restoration of local and regional self-governments in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe.The author shows the main directions of formation the local government administration in the post-communist countries.The main subject of the analysis is a group of five countries: the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Bulgaria and Romania.The article also presents some Polish aspects of creating self-government structures.  
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Kulturowe bariery reformowania administracji publicznej - wyniki badania empirycznego

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Hensel P.
Zarządzanie Publiczne / Public Governance
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2011
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issue 4(18)
49-73
PL
W tekście zaprezentowano wyniki badania ankietowego przeprowadzonego z udziałem 1 217 pracowników administracji publicznej w Polsce. Jego celem było określenie kulturowych determinant wprowadzania reform zgodnych z zaleceniami Nowego Zarządzania Publicznego (NZP) i New Public Governance (NPG) w polskiej administracji. Wyniki świadczą m.in. o tym, że polscy urzędnicy niechętnie akceptują wdrażanie mechanizmów konkurencji w urzędzie oraz że preferują rozwiązania typowe dla logiki hierarchicznej. Wśród czynników sprzyjających wprowadzaniu reform zidentyfikowano wyższy niż w całej populacji poziom deklarowanego zaufania oraz świadomość, że obecny stan administracji publicznej w Polsce jest niezadowalający. Przeanalizowano również, w jaki sposób przekonania urzędników zmieniają się w zależności od miejsca zajmowanego w hierarchii administracyjnej, oraz porównano ich przekonania z deklarowanymi przez ogół populacji Polaków.
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The paper is based on an opinion survey of 1217 Polish public administration employees, which was conducted in order to asses cultural determinants of the successful introduction of the New Public Management and the New Public Governance reforms. The results show that Polish public administration employees are not very eager to accept the implementation of competitive mechanisms in their workplace, and that they prefer solutions rooted in the hierarchical logic. It was concluded that factors positively affecting the probability of successful reforms are: the level of trust, which is higher among them than among the general public, and high awareness of the present dismal state of the administration. The opinions shared by the public administration employees were also compared with those expressed by the general population; regional differences in opinions were also analyzed.
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