Dinca Dragos

National University of Political Studies and Public Administration | SNSPA · Faculty of Public Administration

Practice and research describe the public sector in general and public administration in particular as highly resistant to change. However, the current crisis triggered by the coronavirus and its inevitable repercussions on the economic, social and behavioral field, have triggered and continue to trigger structural and functional changes across pub...

In this article, we analyze the perspectives of professional training for public administration workers, starting from the insights gained from online courses run during the past two years in the context of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. In order to understand the nature, type, and magnitude of the changes brought by the COVID-19 pandemic in the field of...

În administrația publică din România sunt multe bune practici, proiecte inovative, dar acestea nu ajung să fie cunoscute altor instituții și diseminate publicului larg. Acest ghid este o colecție de proiecte interesante, generate de instituțiile publice românești, o dovadă a faptului că în administrație nu există doar formularea ”trebuie făcut/vom...

Declining demographic trends and the pandemic-triggered economic recess have put significant pressure on public resources. This is why, numerous debates have been stared in the public space regarding the public pension system in Romania, which have included new regulatory proposals, changing the retirement age, calculating or eliminating special pe...

This paper conducts a comparative analysis at EU Member States level focused on public funding mechanisms for the cultural sector over the period 2014-2019 and in the year of the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic (2020). The analysis conducted and presented in this paper highlights the fact that the vast majority of EU Member States have stepped up th...

Regarding remuneration, the last 20 years in the Romanian public sector have been marked by extensive debates on the discrepancies between the incomes of the different categories of public personnel, the differences in the application of the legal framework, as well as the lack of correlation between the results of individual work performance and t...

Regarding remuneration, the last 20 years in the Romanian public sector have been marked by extensive debates on the discrepancies between the incomes of the different categories of public personnel, the differences in the application of the legal framework, as well as the lack of correlation between the results of individual work performance and t...

Public administration is a system of organizations, intertwined by a multitude of relations of collaboration, subordination, participation, services provision, etc., made into a real network that provides both the framework required for the enforcement of the law and for its accurate implementation, a system ensuring the continuity and permanence o...

Local development relies on the existence of a regulatory-procedural framework, a partnership, a development strategy, and resources so that it involves taking into account the legal framework (external environment), an inventory of the resources, as well as partners/stakeholders who can be mobilized and their aspirations/expectations. All these ar...

Jobs around the world are affected by the current health crisis. European Commission, governments are concerned with finding measures to ensure the protection of employees. As such, on October 21, 2020 the European Commission issued an inaugural set of obligations with a social impact under the EU SURE Instrument of the European Union. Amounting to...

Scopul studiului este de a identifica măsura în care planificarea strategică a fost realizată în legătură directă cu implementarea și funcționarea sistemului de control intern managerial în cadrul celor 6 instituții guvernamentale responsabile cu cele 13 domenii de politici publice care fac obiectul elaborării Planurilor Strategice Instituționale ș...

Deliberative local public authorities (local and county councils) must work predictably, planned. Predictability of administrative actions leads to predictability of the society's actions, therefore activity planning is a must. Annual Activity Program of the Local Council represents a tool for annual planning of the actions of the deliberative auth...

Romanian Journal of Public Affairs (RJPA) is aiming to promote interdisciplinary research in governance, public administration, public affairs, public policy, law, economics and finance, following the philosophy of international interdisciplinary journals. RJPA is an open-acces journal and under the Creative Commons options. The general topic cov...

Romanian Journal of Public Affairs (RJPA) is aiming to promote interdisciplinary research in governance, public administration, public affairs, public policy, law, economics and finance, following the philosophy of international interdisciplinary journals. RJPA is an open-acces journal and under the Creative Commons options. The general topic cove...

Astăzi, mai mult de 50% din populația lumii și 65% din populația Europei trăiește în orașe. Banca Mondială preconizează că până în 2050 numărul locuitorilor orașelor se va dubla, aproape șapte din zece persoane din întreaga lume vor locui în zonele urbane1. Populația urbană generează 80% din produsul intern brut (PIB) din lume și 85% din PIB în Eur...

Romanian Journal of Public Affairs (RJPA) is aiming to promote interdisciplinary research in governance, public administration, public affairs, public policy, law, economics and finance, following the philosophy of international interdisciplinary journals. RJPA is an open-acces journal and under the Creative Commons options. The general topic cov...

În ultimii 20 de ani, indiferent de guvernare, au fost teme comune de reformă a administrației publice (funcția publică, politicile publice și descentralizarea), obiective comune, măsuri similare și puține realizări. Ideile de reformă s-au perpetuat de la o guvernare la alta, fără a exista capacitatea de a le pune în aplicare. NU au lipsit ideile d...

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People are pursuing happiness, they want to experience happiness, which is a matter of intense debate in philosophy, psychology and even economics. This paper, however does not fit into this type of analysis, being a very pragmatic approach to local development priorities and objectives setting by local governments based on development strategies....

The Government's Annual Work Plan (GAWP) is a tool for annual planning of the decision-making process in the central public administration, comprising the list of public policy papers and the draft bills and regulations which central institutions are considering to submit for the Government's approval in a calendar year. The tool is also used in ot...

The article performs an analysis of the local public administration structures in Romania, analysis that is based on different case study of decentralization and externalization, that have been identify inside the system. The Romanian practice, proposes a new type of structure, characterized, in the author’s opinion, by adaptability, flexibility an...

The article highlights the key moments during the evolution of the prefect institution in Romania and it analyses the recent proposals of reorganization that aim to transform the prefect statute from high ranked civil servant to dignitary. In addition, the principle of deconcentration is detailed and a scenario of reforming the prefect institution...

1. THE ROLE OF THE PRESIDENT OF ROMANIA IN THE EXECUTIVE POWER Ionuț – Bogdan BERCEANU 2. ERASMUS+ SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP. A NEW FORMULA FOR EXPLORING THE CREATIVITY AND INNOVATION FOR YOUNG PEOPLE Crina Ramona RĂDULESCU Cristina SANDU 3. ASSESSMENT OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION INTEGRITY LEVEL: BETWEEN MORALITY AND THE LAW Florin Marius POPA 4. APPLIC...

Romanian Journal of Public Affairs (RJPA) is aiming to promote interdisciplinary research in governance, public administration, public affairs, public policy, law, economics and finance, following the philosophy of international interdisciplinary journals. RJPA is an open-acces journal and under the Creative Commons options. The general topic co...

The territory can be seen as a space power equated in modern societies with the state. From this perspective, the state is responsible for shaping the framework to ensure development of the territory, local development. The concept of local envisages territorial communities, including urban, regional, communities that have been in the spotlight the...

The issue of decentralization is widely debated, regulated and analyzed in official EU documents and literature. The research topic is extensive and includes the analysis of the economic dimension, legal and administrative dimensions that contribute to the development of an interdisciplinary research. The paper is part of a larger research project...

The issue of regional development is widely debated, regulated and analyzed in official EU documents, as well as in specialized literature. The theme of the research is extensive and it includes the analysis of economic, legal and administrative dimensions that contribute to the development of a strong interdisciplinary research. The traditional...

The analysis of the processes and dimensions of development was a permanent concern for both theorists and practitioners. Analysis of economic models and theories envisaged their limits to explain the whole complexity of the development process, analyzed both at local and regional levels. Thus an interdisciplinary approach was necessary, specific f...

Local development strategy is a complex process, the result of collaboration between development actors in the public sector, private sector and civil society, which requires a wide effort to formulate objectives, identifying ways strategic for achieving them in line with resources that can be stimulated. The drafting of the local development strat...

This article presents an analysis of professional training of civil servants from the environment and public health systems in Romania. The diagnosis was done through the survey method using the questionnaire as a tool, a method that allows rapid data collection on an expanded population. The questionnaire survey is used to obtain information from...

The paper starts from two practical findings: one is that in Romania, as in many other European countries (see Bulgaria, Spain, Greece, Poland, Hungary etc.) there are many local communities living in poverty, where one cannot speak of a local economy (there is a very small number of companies with low turnover), of competent local authorities or d...

Romania is divided in administrative terms in counties, cities (some cities have municipality status) and communes. In the southern part of Romania there are 7 counties (Mehedinti, Dolj, Olt, Teleorman, Giurgiu, Calarasi, Constanta) bounded by the Danube and the Black Sea (Constanta). These counties are very heterogeneous in terms of development, a...

Public Service - in the modern sense of the term - occurred in the early twentieth century, under the influence of lawyers, as a basis for foundation of public law. Gradually, the concept was enriched with other meanings, falling under the analysis of economists, sociologists, environmentalists etc. Shaping the classical notion of public service ha...

Rural marketing is an indispensible element within the strategies for the economic development of villages and comunes, contributing to the establishing of the strategy overview. Marketing helps villages and comunes fulfill several objectives, such as the attracting of new national or international companies, the consolidation of the industrial inf...

Metropolitan development succeeds chronologically, as well as structurally urban development, this means a new phase in the urban system development through the extension beyond its initial boundaries. Along with the cities' surrounding areas population growth, especially through emigration from the cities, but as well as through the attraction...

The main topics of this issue of the journal cover a broad area of domains as: management (general, strategic, project, human resources, financial, production, quality, information system, company, foreign investment etc.), public management (good governance, public finance and budgeting, sustainable development, public institutions, public investm...

A large part of Romania's population lives in the rural environment, in communes and in their composing villages. However, there is an important gap in what concerns the administrative action, access to public services and the general development level, between the urban and the rural environment. The paper at hand aims at performing an assessment...

The National Institute of Administration was established to handle issues of personnel training within the system of public administration in Romania. After a stage of progress (2002-2005), the existing conflict between top management leaders questioned the institute's existence, such as a reconstruction process has started, based on three strategi...

Le system de la formation professionnelle pour les fonctionnaires publiques a connu, les dernières dix années, une évolution contradictoire : il a passé par des périodes où il se trouvait au centre de l’action gouvernementale et administrative, mais aussi par des périodes de régression. Ces évolutions et involutions ont eu comme point de départ not...

Training system for public administration in Romania has undergone an evolution contradictory over the past 10 years. Growth periods (2002-2004 and 2006-2008) have alternated with periods of regression. In 2009 the National Institute of Administration, the main national actors of professional training for public administration was terminated. In th...

This article underlines the importance of the e-government in Romania and the necessity of building a real network of e-government for our country. I think that it is interesting in reading the article because you can find about the real situation of this tehnology in Romania and a possible solution of improving what we have. We all know that the c...

The Romanian society is undergoing a transformations process engaging all economic, social, political and civic elements in a new dynamic, in an attempt to adapt them to the current circumstances. A functioning democratic system requires a successful economy and the development of a democratic attitude in the social mentality. When considering this...

Transformările mediului socio-economic impun schimbări în organizaţiile publice la nivelul structurilor şi metodelor utilizate. Schimbarea organizaţională nu este un scop în sine, ci trebuie privită ca un proces natural având ca obiectiv principal păstrarea unei poziţii competitive în mediul de acţiune. Dinamica activităţilor organizaţiei impune la...

In the period 16 – 30 April 2005 I realized an investigation which has references on the role of public services in local development. In the questionnaire conceived 120 public servants from local, public administration of Bucharest answered, having in mind the identification of those perceptions over the public services on which providing directly...

The idea of public service answers to the need of certain social activities, function of the nature of the pursued objectives and interests, to be exempt from the market rules and from seeking profit, in order to be managed according to specific criteria. Thus, every one has acces to certain goods and services and an important contribution is made...

The decentralization and privatization are two essential issues in the general reform of the public services. The decentralization is often considered as a mean to improve the efficiency and the quality of the public services. The communities choose to privatize public services mainly because the lack of resources. Key words: decentralization, priv...

Deontologia, ramură a Eticii, este ştiinţa care studiază obligaţiile şi comportamentul celor care practică o anumită profesie. Deontologia are la bază datoria morală, fără a se suprapune însă cu studiul filosofiei sau a teoriei generale a datoriei morale. De asemenea, trebuie precizată o deosebire esenţială între etică şi deontologie. Astfel, în ti...