item: #1 of 165 id: tras-100 author: TOSUN, M. Umur; Associate Professor, Department of Public Finance, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey; YURDAKUL, M. Onur; PhD, Finance Expert, Financial Crimes Investigation Board, Ministry of Finance, Ankara, Turkey; VAROL İYIDOĞAN, Pelin; Assistant Professor, Department of Public Finance, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey title: The Relationship Between Corruption and Foreign Direct Investment Inflows in Turkey: An Empirical Examination date: 2014-06-09 words: 5223 flesch: 57 summary: i t ti FDI FDI COR PR PI ECM EU CRISIS u                     2. Corruption and FDI relationship: literature review In the literature that examines the corruption and FDI relationship, it is commonly accepted that corruption will negatively affect the investment choices by creating a risk factor. keywords: corruption; fdi; investment; model; relationship; risk; run; test; turkey cache: tras-100.pdf plain text: tras-100.txt item: #2 of 165 id: tras-110 author: ZSEBE, Marianna; Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Eszterházy Károly College, Eger, Hungary title: Opportunities of New Towns – the Effects of Gaining Town Status on the Settlement – System in Northen Hungary date: 2010-02-01 words: 4556 flesch: 58 summary: untitled 178 Abstract The paper discuses an important process related to urbanization – the granting of town status for village-type communities from Northern Hungary and assesses the implication of this process for local economic development. The paper presents several mini case studies of different communities which have applied for town status and discusses the steps taken by those communities. keywords: county; development; granting; hungary; settlements; status; town; town status cache: tras-110.pdf plain text: tras-110.txt item: #3 of 165 id: tras-13 author: PETCU, Monica; Associated Professor, Accounting, Audit and Economic Analysis Department, Faculty of Accounting and Management Information Systems, Academy of Economic Studies, Bucharest, Romania; DAVID SOBOLEVSCHI, Iulia; Associated Professor, Accounting, Audit and Economic Analysis Department, Faculty of Accounting and Management Information Systems, Academy of Economic Studies, Bucharest, Romania; BUNGET, Ovidiu Constantin; Associated Professor, Accounting and Audit Department, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, West University of Timisoara, Timisoara, Romania title: Inconsistency of Legal Provisions: Failure in Introducin the Clawback Tax on the Romanian Medicines Market date: 2014-11-04 words: 8086 flesch: 44 summary: For the contribution payers who did not have medicine sales supported by the Sole national fund of social health insurances and the Ministry of Health budget until December 31, 2011, the value of the reference quarterly individual sales is zero. Considerations on medicines market and prices ‘Generally, the medicines and health services market is not a free competitive mar- ket given that it only happens on very limited segments. keywords: clawback; clawback tax; expenses; health; lei; medicines; price; producer; sales; surplus; tax; value cache: tras-13.pdf plain text: tras-13.txt item: #4 of 165 id: tras-139 author: CHEREJI, Christian Radu; PhD university lecturer, The Department of Communication and Public Relations, the Faculty of Political, Administrative and Communication Sciences, The “Babeş Bolyai” University, Cluj-Napoca; TANUL, Ciprian; Assistant professor, The Department of Communication and Public Relations, the Faculty of Political, Administrative and Communication Sciences, The “Babeş-Bolyai” University, Cluj-Napoca title: Conflict Resolution by Mediation – A Short Analysis of the Situation in Romania date: 2005-10-01 words: 5937 flesch: 37 summary: The Center for Mediation and Community Security, from Iaşi, in collaboration with the Faculty of Psychology of the “Al.I.Cuza” University, organized a MA program in conflict mediation and offers training for mediators17 In 2003, the “PRO Medierea” Association in Bucharest established “The Center for mediation of conflicts between consumers and economic agents”, in partnership with the Association for the Consumer’s Protection in Bucharest. More and more professional companies, law and consultancy firms, especially in the human resources management field, offer specialized training programs in conflict mediation. III. keywords: article; draft; draft law; law; macovei; mediation; mediator; parties; procedure cache: tras-139.pdf plain text: tras-139.txt item: #5 of 165 id: tras-14 author: ROMAN, Alexandru Vasile; Assistant Professor of Public Administration, College of Business and Public Administration, California State University, San Bernardino, United States of America title: Refocusing Perspectives on Public Corruption Away from the Individual: Insights from the Moldovan Social Matrix date: 2014-11-04 words: 7505 flesch: 52 summary: The study of public corruption is also exposed to debates over causal associations and mechanisms. Notwithstanding the difficulties associated with research on public corruption, scholars appear to agree that developing practical interpreta- tions about the nature of corruption and unethical behavior is critical for achieving improved democratic governance (Menzel, 2009). keywords: behavior; cases; corruption; male; propositions; public; research; study; vol cache: tras-14.pdf plain text: tras-14.txt item: #6 of 165 id: tras-143 author: DRANCA, Daniel; Cluj-Napoca City Hall, Cluj-Napoca, Romania title: Cluj-Napoca Metropolitan Zone: Between a Growth Pole and a Deprived Area date: 2013-10-01 words: 9810 flesch: 46 summary: Romania, as an EU member state, makes no exception from this rule, and the Re- gional Operational Program (ROP) allocates 30% of its total budget to ROP Priority Axis 1, Support to sustainable development of urban growth poles – Major Domain of Inter- vention 1.1, Integrated Urban Development Plans (ROP – MDI 1.1). The financial allocations are to be distributed to the cities designated as urban growth poles, on the basis of an integrated urban development plan, elaborated at metropolitan level and networking all the investments within its area of influence. keywords: cluj; cmz; development; government; growth; growth pole; level; metropolitan; napoca; national; poles; population; rop; zone cache: tras-143.pdf plain text: tras-143.txt item: #7 of 165 id: tras-15 author: CABA PEREZ, María del Carmen; Assistant Professor, Department of Business Management, Faculty of Economics and Business Studies, University of Almería, Cañada de San Urbano, Almería, Spain; RODRÍGUEZ BOLÍVAR, Manuel Pedro; Assistant Professor, Department of Accounting and Finance, Faculty of Economics and Business Studies, University of Granada, Campus Universitario de Cartuja, Granada, Spain; LÓPEZ HERNÁNDEZ, Antonio M.; Professor, Department of Accounting and Finance, Faculty of Economics and Business Studies, University of Granada, Campus Universitario de Cartuja, Granada, Spain title: The Determinants Of Government Financial Reports Online date: 2014-06-09 words: 14467 flesch: 56 summary: In view of the foregoing comments, this research focuses on the role that new ICTs can play in achieving the transparency of government information and on the key determinants in making financial documents available on the Web. In this regard, while all OECD member countries provide an increasing amount of government information online, however, the quality of the information available varies considerably in terms of its accessibility, relevance and utility to those citizens that expect to be informed or participate in policy-making processes (OECD, 2003a). keywords: budget; countries; disclosure; documents; e m; government; information; internet; level; oecd; policy; political; public; reports; research; transparency; variables; vol cache: tras-15.pdf plain text: tras-15.txt item: #8 of 165 id: tras-167 author: CALOGERO, Marino; PhD Candidate, Department of Management, Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Pale title: The Introduction of New Public Management Principles in the Italian Public Sector date: 2010-06-01 words: 11195 flesch: 39 summary: Introduction This paper deals with Italian public administration reform, carried out over the past decades on the basis of “new public management” principles. This reform process in public administrations involved many other European Countries that have undergone profound changes; in these countries the reform process was also based on the principles of “New Public Management”. keywords: administration; countries; european; management; model; new; npm; ombudsman; principles; process; public; public administration; quality; reform; sector; services; state; system cache: tras-167.pdf plain text: tras-167.txt item: #9 of 165 id: tras-183 author: PROFIROIU, Alina; Associate Professor, Faculty of Administration and Public Management, Academy of Economic Studies, Bucharest, Romania; ANDREI, Tudorel; Professor, Statistics and Econometrics Department, Faculty of Cibernetics, Statistics and Economic Computation, Academy of Economic Studies, Bucharest, Romania; NICA, Marian; PhD Candidate, Academy of Economic Studies, Bucharest, Romania; ŞTEFĂNESCU, Elena Daniela; PhD, National Institute of Statistics, Bucharest, Romania title: Analysis of the National Modernizers Network for the Support of the Public Administration Reform Process from Romania date: 2010-10-01 words: 5596 flesch: 33 summary: The Ministry of Administration and Interior (renamed for a short time the Ministry of Interior and Administrative Reform - MIAR), which had a role in public administration reform process, by its special structure – Central Unit for Public Administration Reform (CUPAR). The result highlights a slight evolution of public administration reform process. keywords: administration; administration reform; modernizers; public; reform; reform process; variable cache: tras-183.pdf plain text: tras-183.txt item: #10 of 165 id: tras-184 author: RABOCA, Horia Mihai; Research Assistant, Institute of Social Researches, Faculty of Political, Administrative and Communication Sciences, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania; LAZĂR, Ioan; Professor, Department of Management, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania; LAZĂR, Paul Sorin; Lecturer, Department of Management and Economics, Faculty of Economics, Bogdan Vodă University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania; ZAGAN-ZELTER, Diana; Assistant Professor, Department of Modern Languages and Business Communication, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania title: An Eploratory Analysis of the Management Capacity Within the Local Public Administration from Romania date: 2010-10-01 words: 4983 flesch: 35 summary: We believe that management capacity varies by context. They argue that judgments about what constitutes an adequate amount of management capacity are subjective and thus, in practice, are politically defined. keywords: administration; concept; development; institutions; level; management capacity; romania cache: tras-184.pdf plain text: tras-184.txt item: #11 of 165 id: tras-185 author: ŢICLĂU, Tudor; Research Assistant, Public Administration Department, Faculty of Political, Administrative and Communication Sciences, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania; MORA, Cristina; Lecturer, Public Administration Department, Faculty of Political, Administrative and Communication Sciences, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania; ŢIGĂNAŞ, Andrei; PhD Student, Faculty of Machinery Constructions, Department of Management and Systems Engineering Technical University, Bucharest, Romania; BACALI, Laura; Professor, Faculty of Machinery Constructions, Department of Management and Systems Engineering, Technical University, Bucharest, Romania title: Public Marketing as a Strategic Component of Public Management. A Pilot Study in Cluj County on the Existence of Basic Marketing Contidions in the Local Pulbic Administration in Romania date: 2010-10-01 words: 9196 flesch: 44 summary: Since then, public marketing has been constantly expanding as a field of study and has becoming ever more important especially with the new managerial paradigms that emphasize the role and needs of the citizens-clients in developing public policy. The present paper aims to put together a general picture regarding the concept, its development and characteristics, challenges posed by the specific conditions of the public sector and some basic conditions necessary for adopting public marketing as a managerial component of any public organization. keywords: activities; administration; case; citizens; cluj; department; information; institutions; marketing; organizations; public; sector; services cache: tras-185.pdf plain text: tras-185.txt item: #12 of 165 id: tras-186 author: BABA, Cătălin Ovidiu; Associate Professor, Communication Department, Faculty of Political, Administrative and Communication Sciences, Babeş-Bolyai Univesity, Cluj-Napoca, Romania; BRÎNZANIUC, Alexandra; Junior Research Assistant, Center for Health Policy and Public Health,Faculty of Political, Administrative and Communication Sciences, Institute for Social Research, Babeş-Bolyai University Cluj; CHERECHEȘ, Răzvan M.; Researcher, Center for Health Policy and Public Health, Faculty of Political, Administrative and Communication Sciences, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania; RUS, Diana; Junior Research Assistant, Center for Health Policy and Public Health, Faculty of Political, Administrative and Communication Sciences, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania title: Assessment of the Reform of the Romanian Health Care System date: 2008-10-01 words: 5138 flesch: 46 summary: But most important, health care systems are run by, and address services to people. World Health Organization, Regional Office for Europe, ‘Health care systems in transition’, Copenhagen: WHO, 1996. keywords: care; health; health care; insurance; law; management; national; public; system cache: tras-186.pdf plain text: tras-186.txt item: #13 of 165 id: tras-187 author: COBÂRZAN, Bianca V.; Assistant Professor, Public Administration Department, Faculty of Political, Administrative and Communication Sciences, Babeş-Bolyai University, Romania; DRAGOȘ, Dacian D.; Associate Professor, Public Administration Department, Faculty of Political, Administrative and Communication Sciences, Babeş-Bolyai University, Romania; NEAMȚU, Bogdana; Assistant Professor, Public Administration Department, Faculty of Political, Administrative and Communication Sciences, Babeş-Bolyai University, Romania title: Free Access to Public Information: Enforcement, Appeals and Judicial Review. A Comparative Perspective from Cee Countries date: 2008-10-01 words: 5248 flesch: 38 summary: An important method of enforcement of freedom of information regimes, especially regarding the ex-officio publication of public information, is represented by the reports drafted by public authorities or by supervising public bodies. The issue openness and transparency is tightly connected with the free access to public information, as the second is a condition for the first. keywords: access; act; data; freedom; information; law; protection; public; right cache: tras-187.pdf plain text: tras-187.txt item: #14 of 165 id: tras-188 author: ALMĂȘAN, Oana; Assistant Professor, College of Communication and Public Relations, National University for Political Studies and Public Administration, Bucharest, Romania; REINHARDT, Zeno; Assistant Professor, College of Communication and Public Relations, National University for Political Studies and Public Administration, Bucharest, Romania title: The Negative Impact of Legislation Pitfalls on Meaningful Public Participation, Efficient Policy-Making and Effective Governance date: 2009-02-01 words: 3600 flesch: 34 summary: The actual outcome of an effective public participation may in reality encompass a wide range of results, from 2 Law 52/2003 regarding transparency in decision-making in public administration, Chapter 1, Art.1, Art.2, published in M.O. no. 70, February 3, 2003. 3 Law 52/2003 regarding transparency in decision-making in public administration, Chapter 1, Art.1, Paragraph 2, published in M.O. no. 70, February 3, 2003. keywords: administration; decision; development; governance; law; making; participation; public; romanian cache: tras-188.pdf plain text: tras-188.txt item: #15 of 165 id: tras-191 author: BEUDEAN, Paula; Head of Programs Department, The Romanian Foundation for Children, Community and Family, Romania title: Employee Retention. Building Organizational Commitment. Recommendations for Nonprofit Organizations date: 2009-02-01 words: 4511 flesch: 42 summary: The recommendations are based on the theories and research concerning retention and organizational commitment. Most of the researchers interested in this issue looked at organizational commitment in the for-profit sector, but there are some studies examining the public and nonprofit sector too. keywords: commitment; employees; managers; organization; people; retention cache: tras-191.pdf plain text: tras-191.txt item: #16 of 165 id: tras-192 author: GERVAI, Pál; Economist, Faculty of Economics Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary; TRAUTMANN, László; Associate professor, Faculty of Economics Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary title: On the Problem of Scarcity date: 2009-02-01 words: 11981 flesch: 53 summary: The partition of economics into political economics and economics was the oppressive heritage of the 20th century. 61 There is a stringent need for accordance, for the scarcity had been understood in the economics in Central and Eastern Europe in the 90’s, as if it had been recurrent to the 21st century’s economics, as if the scarcity of material goods had been the normal and necessary frame of economic development. keywords: concept; economics; economy; model; new; production; question; samuelson; scarcity; society; system; view; work cache: tras-192.pdf plain text: tras-192.txt item: #17 of 165 id: tras-198 author: TĂNĂSESCU, Simina Elena; Professor, Department of Public Law Faculty of Law, University of Bucharest, Romania title: Treatment of Nationals by Their Kin State – the Romanian Case* date: 2009-02-01 words: 9103 flesch: 31 summary: Even if the criterion of participation in government and not a numerical reference (based on ethnical grounds) to the population of the state makes the difference between nationalities and national minorities, the famous definition Francesco Capotorti suggested for national minorities (“National minorities are ethnic, religious or linguistic groups numerically smaller than the rest of the population of the State to which they belong and possessing cultural, physical or historical characteristics, a religion or a language different from those of the rest of the population”) seems quite operational, although it has been criticised as having some flaws (Veiter, 1977, pp. Therefore, “in order to avoid arbitrary and unjustified exclusions and to maintain the possibility of the future inclusion of other groups, including non-nationals where appropriate, in the application of the Framework Convention” domestic authorities “should ensure that a flexible and open approach to the scope of application the Framework Convention is reflected”; in other words, non-nationals (read non-citizens in West European meaning) may be considered as national minorities where appropriate.2 One has to acknowledge that in international public law there is no clear distinction between nationality, ethnic group and national minority, while at state level there are regulations which differ widely one from another as well as in time. keywords: concept; europe; groups; international; kin; law; minorities; minority; nation; protection; romania; state cache: tras-198.pdf plain text: tras-198.txt item: #18 of 165 id: tras-2 author: AZIM, Mohammad Tahlil; Associate Professor, Department of Business Administration, Faculty of Economics and Administration, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia; A. DIYAB, Abdulhamid; Professor, Department of Business Administration, Faculty of Economics and Administration, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia; A. AL-SABAAN, Saleh; Associate Professor, Department of Business Administration, Faculty of Economics and Administration, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia title: CSR, Employee Job Attitude and Behavior: Saudi Bank Experience date: 2014-11-04 words: 13048 flesch: 61 summary: Discussion The study envisions a model incorporating employees’ perceived CSR to the larger community as the independent variable, job satisfaction as the mediating variable, and employee job engagement, employee organizational engagement, organizational citizenship behavior related to the individual, and organizational citizenship behavior related to the organization as the dependent variables. The study observes a significant positive relationship between employee percep- tion of CSR and employee job engagement and organizational engagement. keywords: behavior; c s; csr; e m; employee; engagement; job; journal; organization; s p; satisfaction; vol cache: tras-2.pdf plain text: tras-2.txt item: #19 of 165 id: tras-203 author: Antonie (GÂRBOAN), Raluca; Assistant Professor, Public Administration Department, Faculty of Political, Administrative and Communications Sciences, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania title: Concepts of Research Methods and Statistics Used in Program Evaluation date: 2009-06-01 words: 2683 flesch: 48 summary: Because of the interdisciplinary profile of program evaluation as a theoretical and practical field, sometimes the importance of using the appropriate research methods and the adequate statistical methods is regarded as having a secondary importance. Based on our own observations and on some other assessments, we are able to state that the use of research methods and of statistical methods should be at the core of program evaluation. keywords: data; evaluation; methods; personnel; program; research cache: tras-203.pdf plain text: tras-203.txt item: #20 of 165 id: tras-204 author: GOICOVICI, Juanita; Assistant professor, Faculty of Law, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania title: The Legal Framework of the Consumer Associations in the Romanian Consumer Law date: 2009-06-01 words: 3473 flesch: 26 summary: In addition to these requirements and after their legal foundation, consumer associations are compelled to request their registration in the Register of consumer organizations held by the National Authority for Consumer Protection (article 34 of the Governmental Ordinance 21/1992 on the consumers’ protection). The Romanian legislator had expressly included a condition of representation – that of a minimum number of members (800) – as “social partners” for consumer associations who have limited by statute their role to representing solely the legitimate collective interests of their members as consumers. keywords: administration; associations; consumer associations; consumers; law; protection; public cache: tras-204.pdf plain text: tras-204.txt item: #21 of 165 id: tras-207 author: MOLDOVAN, Bogdan Andrei; Assistant Professor, Public Administration Department, Faculty of Political, Administrative and Communication Sciences, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania; LAZĂR, Dan Tudor; Associate Professor, Public Administration Department, Faculty of Political, Administrative and Communication Sciences, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania title: Deficits and Growth from Romania's Perspective date: 2009-06-01 words: 4937 flesch: 50 summary: This was based on the observation that current accounts deficits and government budget deficits tend to work together. In 2008 the Romanian economy had the highest level of budget deficit since the 90’s. keywords: account; budget; budget deficit; deficit; economy; gdp; government; growth; level; romania cache: tras-207.pdf plain text: tras-207.txt item: #22 of 165 id: tras-209 author: COBÂRZAN, Bianca; Assistant professor, The Department of Public Administration, the Faculty of Political, Administrative and Communication Sciences, The “Babeş-Bolyai” University, Cluj-Napoca title: The Influence of Some Romanian Interest Groups Upon the Activity of Government and Parliament date: 2005-10-01 words: 8700 flesch: 41 summary: In order to have a complete view over the mechanisms that the Romanian interest groups use to influence the government and the parliament, we should include other categories of interest groups, like business organizations. Then, the forth and the fifth parts provide more information about the context of the development of the type of interest groups we refer to and of the legal framework that bounds their activity. keywords: government; influence; institutions; interest groups; law; order; organizations; parliament; public; trade; trade unions; unions cache: tras-209.pdf plain text: tras-209.txt item: #23 of 165 id: tras-211 author: COBÂRZAN, Bianca; cadru didactic asociat, Departamentul de Administraţie Publică, Facultatea de Stiinţe Politice şi Administrative, Universitatea “Babeş-Bolyai” Cluj-Napoca; HAMLIN, Roger E.; professor of Public Administration and Urban Planning, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan title: Corruption and Ethical Issues Regarding Public-Private Partnership date: 2005-10-01 words: 6143 flesch: 51 summary: The forth section describes some dangers of public private partnerships in terms of ethical problems and corrupt practices. The main cause of corruption in government is the discretionary power that the public officials hold, which refers especially to public officials who are in “positions where they have discretion over important decisions” that affects the business of the others (Vito Tanzi 1998, Susan Rose-Ackerman 1999). keywords: community; corruption; example; government; interest; officials; partnership; process; public; sector; services cache: tras-211.pdf plain text: tras-211.txt item: #24 of 165 id: tras-213 author: JUNJAN, Veronica; Lecturer, The Department of Public Administration, the Faculty of Political, Administrative and Communication Sciences, The “Babeş-Bolyai” University, Cluj-Napoca title: General Issues Concerning Needs Analysis in Local Public Institutions date: 2005-10-01 words: 2985 flesch: 36 summary: However, breaking down main items of the “instruction” category by the position of the candidate, there are some interesting results: Distribution frequencies of item “ professional improvement” by position Civil servant 24 Decision maker 22 other 2 Distribution frequencies of item “professional knowledge” by position: Civil servant 17 Decision maker 14 other 2 The difference between civil servants and decision-makers are no longer as clear cut as they seemed from the previous cohort, and the wish for instruction seems rather marginal when considered only from the frequencies points of view. Current study uses interviews with candidates for a public administration master program to investigate civil servants motivation of pursuing graduate- level studies and their perception on current needs of the work in local public institutions. keywords: administrative; career; items; master; motivation; public; servants cache: tras-213.pdf plain text: tras-213.txt item: #25 of 165 id: tras-215 author: LAZĂR, Ioan; Professor, Department of Management, Faculty of Economics, Babeş-Bolyai University title: Change Management in Organizations date: 2005-10-01 words: 2728 flesch: 48 summary: The essentials of change management are: efficiently achieving the objectives, keeping an internal balance of the organizational systems and leading them onto success, flexibility and the capacity to adapt to the dynamics of the environment. Change and its impact upon organizations The organization is a living economic and social system, which comes into being, develops itself, grows up and then disappears in a certain environment. keywords: change; efficiency; management; organization; structure cache: tras-215.pdf plain text: tras-215.txt item: #26 of 165 id: tras-218 author: MACARIE, Felicia Cornelia; Lecturer, the Faculty of Political, Administrative and Communication Science, Branch Campus at Bistriţa Năsăud, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj Napoca title: The Management of Public Institutions Face to Face with the Europeanization Process date: 2005-10-01 words: 4561 flesch: 42 summary: Even though we cannot argue that the European management will become dominant in Europe, many European organizations are more orientated toward using European management, even if they are not aware of doing that. The need for European management is explained by six factors: 1. keywords: control; countries; cultures; european; management; power; uncertainty; union cache: tras-218.pdf plain text: tras-218.txt item: #27 of 165 id: tras-220 author: ŞANDOR, Sorin Dan; Associate professor, The Department of Public Administration, the Faculty of Political, Administrative and Communication Sciences, The “Babeş-Bolyai” University, Cluj-Napoca title: A Framework for the Self-Evaluation of the Functioning of Public Institutions: Incentive Towards an Increased Quality or Merely a Formality? date: 2005-10-01 words: 4011 flesch: 46 summary: CAF is a tool developed by the European Union in order to assess the capacity of public institutions to produce quality. Under the Romanian award there is a section for public institutions. keywords: administration; caf; european; institutions; management; organization; public; quality; results cache: tras-220.pdf plain text: tras-220.txt item: #28 of 165 id: tras-221 author: VÁZQUEZ, José L.; Prof. Dr, Faculty of Economic and Entrepreneurial Sciences, University of León (Spain); GUTIÉRREZ, Pablo; Assistant Professor, Faculty of Economic and Entrepreneurial Sciences, University of León (Spain); GARCÍA, María P. title: Citizens' Position in Service Quality Perception. An Approach Analysis in the Case of Spanish Local Administrations date: 2005-10-01 words: 4773 flesch: 50 summary: Donnelly, M., M. Wisniewski, J.F. Dalrymple and A.C. Curry, “Measuring service quality in local government: the SERVQUAL approach”, International Journal of Public Sector Management, vol. 8, nr. 7, 1995, pp. Authors have usually considered tools like the SERVQUAL scale (useful at measuring service quality in a diverse number of organizations and situations, both in private and public sector spheres) as a prior reference when researching in the quality field, but as being the “source”, then changed (modified) into a more or less “new” proposal. keywords: customer; features; marketing; model; pls; quality; reputation; satisfaction; service cache: tras-221.pdf plain text: tras-221.txt item: #29 of 165 id: tras-223 author: LAZĂR, Dan Tudor; Associate professor, The Department of Public Administration, the Faculty of Political, Administrative and Communication Sciences, The “Babeş-Bolyai” University, Cluj-Napoca title: The Tax Reform of Romania Since the Transition to Market Economy date: 2005-10-01 words: 3578 flesch: 53 summary: There are presented the two models of variation of income tax policy followed by Eastern European countries: flat income tax – a simple, efficient, but inequitable system (Estonia, Russia, Romania, etc.) and progressive income tax – a complex, inefficient, but equitable system (Hungary, Czech Republic, Slovenia, etc). An additional important reform was made at the end of 2004 with the introduction of flat income tax – 16% at both corporate and individual level. keywords: countries; european; income; reform; romania; table; tax; taxes; vat cache: tras-223.pdf plain text: tras-223.txt item: #30 of 165 id: tras-224 author: DALEHITE, Esteban G.; Assistant Professor, School of Public and Urban Affairs, Florida International University title: Assesing the Impact of Local Incentives on Capital Cost: The Case of the Indiana Era Program date: 2006-02-01 words: 3636 flesch: 51 summary: The research question is: By how much do property tax abatements reduce the capital cost of business and homes? In 1977 legislation required that the benefits from property tax abatements be spread over a 10-year period. keywords: abatement; capital; cost; development; property; tax; year cache: tras-224.pdf plain text: tras-224.txt item: #31 of 165 id: tras-226 author: HAMLIN, Roger E.; Professor of Public Administration and Urban Planning, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan; COBÂRZAN, Bianca; Assistant Professor, Department of Public Administration, Faculty of Political, Administrative and Communication Sciences, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca title: How to Prevent Corruption Without Affecting Efficiency? An Overview of Safeguard Measures for Contracting Out Public Services date: 2006-02-01 words: 9511 flesch: 48 summary: The last part of the paper recommends future research to identify best practices among different communities and states attempting to control corruption practices when contracting out public services. Starting in the 1970s in the US, fiscal constraints forced local governments to find alternative ways to provide public services (Borins 2002). keywords: companies; company; contracting; corruption; government; new; officials; process; procurement; public; regulations; rules; services cache: tras-226.pdf plain text: tras-226.txt item: #32 of 165 id: tras-228 author: HUDREA, Adrian; Teaching Assistant, Department of Public Administration, Faculty of Political, Administrative and Communication Sciences, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca title: Organizational Culture date: 2006-02-01 words: 4414 flesch: 29 summary: 47-56 The literature on organizational culture is as relevant to public science management as it is to the management of private sector business organizations. Organizational culture became a business phenomenon in the early 1980s, triggered by four seminal books: • Ouchi (1981) – Theory Z: How American Business Can Meet the Japanese Challenge • Pascale and Athos (1982) – The Art of Japanese Mana- gement: Applications for American Executives • Deal and Kennedy (1982) – Corporate Cultures: The Rites and Rituals of Corporate Life • Peters and Waterman (1982) – In Search of Excellence: Lessons from America’s Best Run Companies. keywords: change; culture; management; need; new; organization; schein; success; values cache: tras-228.pdf plain text: tras-228.txt item: #33 of 165 id: tras-229 author: JENEI, György; Professor, Department of Public Policy and Management, Faculty of Economics, Corvinus University of Budapest; KUTI, Éva; Associate Professor, Budapest College of Management title: The EU Accession's Impact on the Hungarian Nonprofit Sector, The Nonprofit Organisations' Role in the Accession Process date: 2006-02-01 words: 7932 flesch: 47 summary: Similarly, the region as a focus of EU development policy creates a climate that is very favourable for all kinds of regional co-operation. In the latest phase opened up in Maastricht, member states have partly lost their traditional sovereignty. keywords: eastern; european; making; networks; ngos; organisations; policy; process; public; sector; society; state; union cache: tras-229.pdf plain text: tras-229.txt item: #34 of 165 id: tras-230 author: KOLISNICHENKO, Natalya; Associate Professor, Odessa Regional Institute of Public Administration, National Academy of Public Administration, Office of the President of Ukraine; ROSENBAUM, Allan; Professor, Institute for Public Management and Community Services, School of Policy and Management, Florida International University, Miami title: Central-Local Administrative and Governance Relationships in Two Ukrainian Cities: Kyiv and Odessa date: 2006-02-01 words: 7595 flesch: 38 summary: Much has been written by scholars of local government about both the relationship of local governments to a country’s national government and the relationship of local governments to their citizens. In part, this is due to the lingering influence of the Soviet totalitarian past on the mentality of both the Ukrainian legislators and the representatives of local governments who are working to create democratic principles of true people’s power. keywords: bodies; city; council; districts; government; kyiv; odessa; power; self; state; ukraine cache: tras-230.pdf plain text: tras-230.txt item: #35 of 165 id: tras-231 author: LAZĂR, Ioan; Professor, Department of Management, Faculty of Economics, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca title: The Behavior of the Citizens from Cluj-Napoca Regarding Advertising date: 2006-02-01 words: 1383 flesch: 50 summary: However, what is the most interesting to notice at the consumer from Cluj-Napoca is the fact that, until 1989 he hadn’t trusted ads because these were only for products that sold hard, after passing to the market economy, the amount of quality products from stores has increased. Regarding the answer to the first question, if ads contribute to the lowering of products prices, 66,13% of those interrogated didn’t agree with it. keywords: ads; advertising; products cache: tras-231.pdf plain text: tras-231.txt item: #36 of 165 id: tras-232 author: LEUCA, Cristina Ramona; Master student, Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Michigan State University title: Smart Growth: Applying the US Experience to the Romanian Context date: 2006-02-01 words: 6772 flesch: 49 summary: Also local governments should be attracted in any decision making process with regard to smart growth because they are the main entities that are to implement smart growth programs along with the state agencies. Sometimes smart growth is an element of a broad land use reform, or land use and planning reforms were necessary in order to effectively implement smart growth programs. keywords: communities; development; efforts; growth; management; maryland; new; planning; principles; programs; state cache: tras-232.pdf plain text: tras-232.txt item: #37 of 165 id: tras-233 author: MORTAN, Maria; Associate Professor, Department of Management, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Babeş-Bolyai University title: Agritourism Rural Development Public Administration date: 2006-02-01 words: 2624 flesch: 22 summary: This work portrays agritourism as an element of rural development and critically analyzes the way in which the public administration should become involved in sustaining rural development in general and in sustaining agritourism development in particular. The investigation intended to identify the problems of the Romanian nowadays village, of the potential of practicing agritourism by the investigated exploitations and as well intended to obtain some data able to allow us the elaboration of a strategy of rural development in this area. keywords: activities; agritourism; area; community; development; rural cache: tras-233.pdf plain text: tras-233.txt item: #38 of 165 id: tras-235 author: PROFIROIU, Marius; Associate Professor, Department of Public Administration, Academy of Economic Studies, Bucharest; PROFIROIU, Alina; Senior Lecturer, Department of Public Administration, Academy of Economic Studies, Bucharest title: Decentralization Process in Romania date: 2006-02-01 words: 3922 flesch: 34 summary: 32/2002 concerning on the public services for water distribution and sewage, GO no.71/2002 on setting up local public services for the management of public and private domains of local interest. Does the current system for financing local public services meet your needs? keywords: administration; decentralization; government; process; public; reform; services cache: tras-235.pdf plain text: tras-235.txt item: #39 of 165 id: tras-236 author: RABOCA, Horia Mihai; PhD candidate, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca title: Determinants of Customer Satisfaction and Service Quality-The Case of Romanian Public Services- date: 2006-02-01 words: 6011 flesch: 31 summary: 124 The present study portrays customer satisfaction and service quality as a multi- dimensional construct and investigates the link between customer satisfaction determinants and service quality determinants. If the preoccupation of the private companies for the two concepts „ service quality” and „customer satisfaction” is a major factor in maintaining an advantage over the competitors, an advantage that in the end will generate the economic success of the company, the preoccupation of the organizations in the field of public administration and public services, respectively, vis-à-vis service quality and customer / citizens’ satisfaction derives from the changes due to the implementation of new philosophies regarding administration, known as “New Public Management”, changes that are based on the interest in measuring performances and revitalizing the public and the nonprofit organizations and that are generated by the convergent result of two forces: (1) the pressure of demand for a higher responsibility of the organizations, coming from the political factors, the public and 125 the media, (2) the deliberate growth of the organization leaders’ engagement towards results and performance. keywords: concepts; customer; customer satisfaction; dimensions; public; satisfaction; service delivery; service quality; services; total cache: tras-236.pdf plain text: tras-236.txt item: #40 of 165 id: tras-237 author: STRAUSS, Eric J.; Professor, Director Urban and Regional Planning Program, Michigan State University, U.S; NEAMŢU, Bogdana; Assistant Professor, Department of Public Administration, Faculty of Political, Administrative and Communication Sciences, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca title: Policy Tools for Addressing Urban Sprawl: Urban Growth Boundaries date: 2006-02-01 words: 9908 flesch: 53 summary: Urban growth boundaries restrict urban growth to a specific area around a community and prevent the spread of development into the surrounding countryside (Porter, 1997, cited in Kolakowski et al., 2000). The designation of urban growth areas identifies where growth should occur, and with a cordon of boundary line, establishes the geographical extent to which development is permissible. keywords: area; boundaries; boundary; cities; city; cluj; development; growth; growth boundaries; housing; local; planning; portland; public; region; sprawl; ugb; urban cache: tras-237.pdf plain text: tras-237.txt item: #41 of 165 id: tras-238 author: ŞANDOR, Sorin Dan; Associate professor, Department of Public Administration, Faculty of Political, Administrative and Communication Sciences, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca title: Romania's Digital Divide and the Failures of E-Government date: 2006-02-01 words: 3340 flesch: 48 summary: We tried to assess the use of e-government services, using the number of visitors accessing government sites. The fact that Romanians do not use e-government services is supported by the findings of eEurope+ survey: only 2% of the Internet users downloaded official forms and 3% sent filled in forms22. keywords: divide; government; information; internet; number; public; romania; services cache: tras-238.pdf plain text: tras-238.txt item: #42 of 165 id: tras-239 author: ZAI, Paul; Teaching Assistant, Department of Public Administration, Faculty of Political, Administrative, and Communication Sciences, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca; INCEU, Adrian Mihai; Senior Lecturer, Department of Finances, Faculty of Economics, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca; LAZĂR, Dan Tudor; Associate Professor, Department of Public Administration, Faculty of Political, Administrative, and Communication Sciences, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca title: Capital Investments Plan for 288 Streets from Cluj-Napoca date: 2006-02-01 words: 4671 flesch: 58 summary: 1.Under this scenario, the financing of street rehabilitation projects comes from the local budget. Under this scenario, the financing of street rehabilitation projects comes from both the local budget and a loan. keywords: expenditures; increase; projects; rate; rol; street; thousands; thousands rol; vehicles cache: tras-239.pdf plain text: tras-239.txt item: #43 of 165 id: tras-242 author: MUSA, Anamarija; Assistant Professor, Department of Administrative Science, Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia; KOPRIĆ, Ivan; Professor, Department of Administrative Science, Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia title: What kind of Agencification in Croatia? Trends and Future Directions date: 2011-12-30 words: 10025 flesch: 37 summary: The increase in number was followed by the growth of employment in public agencies. The pillars of agency control in Croatia are based on the following mechanisms. keywords: administrative; agencies; agencification; agency; autonomy; control; croatia; framework; government; law; model; new; organizations; policy; public; state cache: tras-242.pdf plain text: tras-242.txt item: #44 of 165 id: tras-243 author: SARAPUU, Külli; Research Fellow, Chair of Public Management and Policy Department of Public Administration, Tallinn University of Technology, Tallinn, Estonia title: Post-Comunist Development of Administrative Structure in Estonia: From Fragmentation to Segmentation date: 2011-12-30 words: 9659 flesch: 41 summary: Keywords: Estonia, administrative structure, coordination, institutionalization, post-communist development. Consequently, administrative structure has a critical role to play in the functioning of a politico-administrative system. keywords: administrative; agencies; central; coordination; development; estonian; government; ministries; organizations; policy; public; state; structure; system; vol cache: tras-243.pdf plain text: tras-243.txt item: #45 of 165 id: tras-244 author: HAJNAL, György; Hungarian Academy of Science, Institute for Political Science, Corvinus University of Budapest, Budapest, Hungary title: Agencies and the Politics of Agencification in Hungary date: 2011-12-30 words: 8599 flesch: 40 summary: This latter restriction means that some clusters of agency type organizations that should “normally” be included in the analysis are omitted. The quest for political control: previous findings on the driving motives of agency policy in Hungary A first question of agency research aims at explaining the phenomenon of politicians refraining from the exercise of some of their powers and delegating certain 76 competencies to agencies. keywords: agencies; agencification; agency; autonomy; central; control; extent; government; hungarian; hungary; ministry; organizations; policy; public cache: tras-244.pdf plain text: tras-244.txt item: #46 of 165 id: tras-246 author: ARISTOVNIK, Aleksander; Assistant Professor, Department of Public Sector Economics, Faculty of Administration, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia; PUNGARTNIK, Andrej; M.A, Faculty of Economics, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia title: Analysis of Reaching the Lisbon Strategy Targets at the National Level: the Eu-27 and Slovenia date: 2009-10-01 words: 7440 flesch: 56 summary: Time distance In general, time distance is the distance in time between two events. The first part delves into the role of the Lisbon Strategy and is followed by a presentation of time distance, whereas the central part discusses - using the application of the Socio- economic Indicators Center (SICENTER)1 – the time lead or lag in implementing the Lisbon Strategy at the EU and Slovenia levels. keywords: employment; slovenia; strategy; target; time distance; years cache: tras-246.pdf plain text: tras-246.txt item: #47 of 165 id: tras-251 author: VERBONCU, Ion; Professor, Faculty of Management, Academy of Economic Studies, Bucharest, Romania; PROFIROIU, Marius; Professor, Faculty of Administration and Public Management, Academy of Economic Studies, Bucharest, Romania; VĂRUICU, Nicoleta; PhD Candidate, Faculty of Management, Academy of Economic Studies, Bucharest, Romania title: Managerial Methodology in Public Institutions date: 2010-10-01 words: 2807 flesch: 13 summary: The objective pursued in this material is to highlight the methodological elements of management tools that have an important impact on efficiency and effectiveness (management by objectives, organizational diagnosis and the scoreboard) and to present the particularities of their use in public institutions, either deconcentrated or decentralized. Premises for using managerial methodology in public institutions • the stage accomplished by the public institution management; • visible discrepancies between the theory and practice in public management; • the often empiric character of the management; • low degree of promoting and utilizing the managerial instruments; • retrieval of numerous methodological elements, related to some collateral management areas – quality management, performance standards, rules, norms, procedures etc. keywords: information; management; managerial; managers; methodology; objectives; scoreboard cache: tras-251.pdf plain text: tras-251.txt item: #48 of 165 id: tras-256 author: CUCIĆ, Vuk; Assistant Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia title: Administrative Appeal in Serbian Law date: 2011-02-01 words: 11831 flesch: 46 summary: 52 The administrative act in Serbian legal doctrine is defined as a legal (normative), individual, unilateral, binding act of administrative authority deciding on administrative matters (Krbek, 1957, p. 16; Milkov, 1983, p. 349). General administrative acts, i.e. bylaws issued by administrative authorities, administrative contracts and factual acts of administration cannot be challenged by administrative appeal. keywords: act; administrative; appeal; art; authority; court; gapa; instance; law; proceeding cache: tras-256.pdf plain text: tras-256.txt item: #49 of 165 id: tras-260 author: NEACȘU, Marius Cristian; Lecturer, Faculty of International Business and Economics, Academy of Economic Studies, Bucharest, Romania title: The City Image and the Local Public Administration: a Working Tool in Urban Planning date: 2009-10-01 words: 7138 flesch: 29 summary: The same author states that exaggerating the two extremes can lead to two types of city image: an “ideal” one and an “inhibiting” one, a mediation between the two leading to a “constructive image”, as operable as possible in the decision making process (Figure 3). 179 OPPORTUNITIES SPACE URBAN PERCEPTION VULNERABILITIES CITY IMAGE PREFERENTIAL IMAGE EVALUATIVE IMAGE OVERVALUED DEBASED DECISION OVERVALUATION UNDERVALUATION Figure 3: City image, an instrument in the decision making process (adaptation after Ianoş, 2004, p. 190) 3. Therefore, city image: Appeared as a necessity to analyse, synthesise and essentialize a territorial manifesting reality; What does city image synthesise? keywords: areas; city; city image; development; environment; etc; image; level; management; perception; place; ploieşti; residents; space; urban cache: tras-260.pdf plain text: tras-260.txt item: #50 of 165 id: tras-262 author: SALAT, Levente; Associate Professor, Department of Political Sciences, Faculty of Political, Administrative and Communication Sciences, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania; CĂLUȘER, Monica; Program Coordinator, The Ethnocultural Diversity Resource Center, Cluj-Napoca, Romania; GORCEA, Amelia; Program Coordinator, The Ethnocultural Diversity Resource Center, Cluj-Napoca, Romania; MOȘTEANU, Olimpia; Program Coordinator Assistant, The Ethnocultural Diversity Resource Center, Cluj-Napoca, Romania title: Ethnocultural Diversity and Aspects of Political Culture date: 2009-10-01 words: 8683 flesch: 44 summary: untitled 199 Abstract The paper investigates the relationship between ethnocultural diversity and political culture. The first part of the study explores the literature on ethnocultural diversity as a sociologically relevant variable, its impact on other structural variables, and the way in which ethnicity became relevant to the study of political culture. keywords: analysis; correlation; culture; data; diversity; ethnic; fractionalization; fractionalization index; index; indices; political; public; research; romanian; variable cache: tras-262.pdf plain text: tras-262.txt item: #51 of 165 id: tras-263 author: SCORȚAR, Lucia Monica; Assistant Professor, Department of Management, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania; LAZĂR, Ioan; Professor, Department of Management, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania; POPA, Mirela; Associate Professor, Department of Management, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania; ZAGAN ZELTER, Diana; Assistant Professor, Department of Modern Languages and Business Communication, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania; POP, Ioan; Lecturer, Faculty of Business, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania title: The Financial Analysis of a Modern Scheme for Managing Waste Proposed for the Urban Community Arieş, Cluj County date: 2009-10-01 words: 5622 flesch: 50 summary: Table 1: The Urban Community Arieş The Urban Community Arieş Urban Area Turda Câmpia Turzii Rural Area Mihai Viteazu Călăraşi Frata Aiton Luna Petreştii de Jos Sănduleşti Tritenii de Jos Viişoara 222 The waste management scheme proposed for the Urban Community Arieş includes the following actions: (1) waste pre-collection at the source (in the apartment or house), (2) waste collection (at the collection container, where the responsibility of the public service starts), (3) waste transportation with special vehicles, (4) intermediary waste storage (at the transfer station placed between Turda and Câmpia Turzii), (5) valorization of the selected fractions, made by the recyclers, and valorization of mixed collected waste, treated in the sorting/treating station placed on the platform of the former Chemical Plant in Turda, (6) final storage of the remaining waste at the ecological warehouse, ought to be opened in Feleacu village. Regarding waste collection, the project proposal has the following aims: keywords: collection; euros; investment; population; present; project; rate; scheme; urban; value; waste; waste management cache: tras-263.pdf plain text: tras-263.txt item: #52 of 165 id: tras-267 author: HINȚEA, Călin; Associate proffesor, Public Administration Department, Faculty of Political, Administrative and Communication Sciences, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania title: Public Management Reform and Modernization date: 2010-10-01 words: 424 flesch: 25 summary: The book is a thorough analysis of public management reform in the „Napoleonic” states (France, Greece, Portugal and Spain) and tries to establish patterns of reform and comparisons at this level. Eduardo Ongaro’s book should be included into the library of those who believe that public management reform is both possible and necessary. keywords: reform cache: tras-267.pdf plain text: tras-267.txt item: #53 of 165 id: tras-275 author: PÎRVU, Daniela; Lecturer, Department of Economic Theory and Finances, University of Piteşti, Piteşti, Romania; UNGUREANU, Emilia; Professor, Department of Economic Theory and Finances, University of Piteşti, Piteşti, Romania; CIORCHINĂ, Natalia; Project manager, Public Policy and Social Enterprises, Argeş County Council, Argeş, Romania title: Opportunities and Difficulties in the Implementation of Projects Financed Through the Interreg IVC Program in Romania. Case Study: The Project "Public Policies and Social Enterprises" date: 2011-02-01 words: 4807 flesch: 25 summary: Using the second tool with important impact on the development of social enterprises – public procurement – is controversial because the purchase of goods or services provided by social enterprises may reduce the efficiency of the public spending (as the labor productivity in social enterprise is lower, the price of their goods and services is greater than the price of goods and services provided by traditional firms in the market). Opportunities and difficulties in the implementation of the project “Public policies and social enterprises” Starting with 2008, the Argeş County Council has had the chance to take part into the implementation of the project ‘Public policies and social enterprises’ approved within the first call for projects financed through the INTERREG IVC Program. keywords: authorities; development; enterprises; european; interreg; ivc; program; projects; regional; social cache: tras-275.pdf plain text: tras-275.txt item: #54 of 165 id: tras-286 author: JUNJAN, Veronica; Assistant professor, School of Management & Governance, Department of Social Risks and Safety Studies, University of Twente, the Netherlands; CIUMĂGEANU, Mugur; PhD, Romanian Association of Behavior and Cognitive Therapy, Bucharest, Romania; MICLUŢIA, Ioana; Professor, University of Medicine and Pharmacy Iuliu Haţieganu, Cluj-Napoca, Romania; CRĂCIUN, Ioana; MD, PhD, Second Psychiatry Clinic, Cluj-Napoca, Romania title: Labor Integration with Persons with Disabilities in Public Institutions in Romania date: 2011-06-01 words: 5237 flesch: 44 summary: Table 2: Average percentage of employed persons with disabilities in public institutions, reported per 100 employees Type of institution Average percentage employees persons with disabilities Number of institutions Counties Agencies for Employment 1.80 5 Agencies for Regional Development 0.33 5 Counties Departments of Social Welfare 1.15 25 National Management Agencies for Structural Funds 0.00 1 Ministries 0.25 11 National Agencies 1.46 2 County councils 0.79 27 Town/City Halls 0.82 27 Prefectures 0.28 29 Local Councils 0.82 1 117 Table 2 includes averages of numbers of persons with disabilities employed in public sector institutions that have more than 50 employees. untitled 109 Abstract This research aims to investigate the extent to which the legislation aimed to improve and support the labor reinsertion of persons with disabilities is implemented by public institutions. keywords: agencies; disabilities; employees; institutions; law; number; persons; region; social cache: tras-286.pdf plain text: tras-286.txt item: #55 of 165 id: tras-290 author: MIONEL, Viorel; Assistant Professor, Department of Economics History and Geography, Faculty of International Business and Economics, Academy of Economic Studies, Bucharest, Romania; NEGUŢ, Silviu; Professor, Department of Economics History and Geography, Faculty of International Business and Economics, Academy of Economic Studies Bucharest, Romania title: The Socio-Spatial Dimension of the Bucharest Ghettos date: 2011-06-01 words: 8312 flesch: 53 summary: However, what one must not neglect is that the lack of coherent and immediate policies for this type of urban ghettos can affect the city even more. 4. Empirical evidence on several Bucharest ghettos The so-called Bucharest ghettos, as their inhabitants call them, do not resemble very much their American counterparts from the racial composition point of view, but they rather define themselves by a specific spirit. keywords: aleea; area; bucharest; city; community; ferentari; ghetto; inhabitants; lack; population; poverty; segregation; socio; space; zăbrăuţi cache: tras-290.pdf plain text: tras-290.txt item: #56 of 165 id: tras-292 author: PETREA, Rodica; Professor, Department of Geography, Tourism and Territorial Planning, Faculty of History, Geography and International Relations, University of Oradea, Romania; PETREA, Dănuţ; Professor, Department of Physical and Technical Geography, Faculty of Geography, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania; NEMEŞ, Valentin; Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Geography, Tourism and Territorial Planning, Faculty of History, Geography and International Relations, University of Oradea, Romania title: The Brownfield of Padurea Neagra (Crisul Repede Valley) date: 2011-06-01 words: 3749 flesch: 46 summary: The common European initiatives concerning the reconversion of decommissioned industrial sites and their reuse based on the community strategic orientations, within the subject entitled “The territorial dimension of the European policy on cohesion”, are grouped into five fields: (1) The exchange of good practices regarding the innovating approaches for the physical rehabilitation of decommissioned industrial sites and the higher attraction of urban areas; • The issue of revitalization of decommissioned urban areas which is included in the URBACT II program / Priority Axis 2 – Subject “Environmental Issues” and/or “Integrated Development of Disadvantaged Areas and Poverty Risk Areas”. keywords: aleşd; area; development; glass; neagră; petrea; pădurea; rehabilitation; sites; tourism; urban cache: tras-292.pdf plain text: tras-292.txt item: #57 of 165 id: tras-293 author: PINTERIČ, Uroš; Assistant Professor, School of Advanced Social Studies, Nova Gorica, Slovenia title: Bugetary Perspective on Police Force: A Case Study on Slovenia date: 2011-06-01 words: 4910 flesch: 56 summary: untitled 244 Abstract The author explores some of the generally overlooked roles of police force in contemporary world. The last decade was strongly marked by a need for increased safety, and police forces were strongly motivated to change the security paradigm. keywords: budget; eur; fines; force; police; revenues; security; slovenia; state cache: tras-293.pdf plain text: tras-293.txt item: #58 of 165 id: tras-294 author: POPESCU, Claudia; Professor, Faculty of International Economics and Business, Academy of Economic Studies, Bucharest, Romania title: The Economy of a Regional Metropolis. Case-Study: Iasi, Romania date: 2011-06-01 words: 9385 flesch: 39 summary: One of them, ANTREC organizes thematic trips such as “wine road within Iaşi regions”, including Cotnari as the main attraction. untitled 255 Abstract The city of Iaşi with a population of over 300,000 people is the biggest European Union city at the border with the former-Soviet space. keywords: activities; area; city; companies; development; east; economy; european; growth; iaşi; industry; level; national; north; number; peri; potential; region; services; textile; urban; villages cache: tras-294.pdf plain text: tras-294.txt item: #59 of 165 id: tras-295 author: PROFIROIU, Marius; Professor, Administration and Public Management Department, Faculty of Administration and Public Management, Academy of Economic Studies, Bucharest, Romania; PROFIROIU, Alina; Associate Professor, Administration and Public Management Department, Faculty of Administration and Public Management, Academy of Economic Studies, Bucharest, Romania; MINA, Laura; Assistant Professor, Administration and Public Management Department, Faculty of Administration and Public Management, Academy of Economic Studies, Bucharest, Romania; NICA, Marian; PhD candidate, Administration and Public Management Department, Faculty of Administration and Public Management, Academy of Economic Studies, Bucharest, Romania title: Romania - New E.U. Member State, A New Phase of Its Transition date: 2011-06-01 words: 7476 flesch: 40 summary: If we look at the public sector, we will see that although public administration reform has always been part of all the governmental programs, it has never been a real priority; on the contrary, centralized models were to a large extent preferred and the changes were either too slow or too fragmented. 3. Public administration sector In general, a modern public administration should be endowed (at the level of institutions, structures, mechanisms, procedures, networks, relationships, work procedures and hierarchical rules) with a series of attributes that allow it to be efficient, effective, economic, transparent, responsible, equitable, capable of adapting to the public needs and to allow the participation of various actors from all the sectors and levels. keywords: administration; central; european; evaluation; governance; management; new; process; public; reforms; romania; sector; society cache: tras-295.pdf plain text: tras-295.txt item: #60 of 165 id: tras-302 author: DRAGOŞ, Dacian; Associate Professor, Public Administration Department, Faculty of Political, Administrative and Communication Sciences, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania title: Alternative Dispute Resilution Mechanisms in the Field of Public Procurement: Between Effectiveness and Constitutionalily date: 2011-10-01 words: 7653 flesch: 43 summary: Consiliul Naţional de Soluţionare a Contestaţiilor (National Council for Solving Legal Disputes), Up to 2010, the law allowed complainants to choose between the administrative- jurisdictional path (the National Council for Solving Legal Disputes, hereafter the Council) and the purely judicial one (court of law). keywords: administrative; appellate; authority; complaint; contracting; council; court; law; public; review cache: tras-302.pdf plain text: tras-302.txt item: #61 of 165 id: tras-303 author: FILIMON, Luminiţa; Lecturer, Faculty of History, Geography and International Relations, University of Oradea, Oradea, Romania; PETREA, Rodica; Professor, Faculty of History, Geography and International Relations, University of Oradea, Oradea, Romania; PETREA, Dănuţ; Professor, Department of Physical and Technical Geography, Faculty of Geography, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania; FILIMON, Claudiu; Lecturer, Faculty of History, Geography and International Relations, University of Oradea, Oradea, Romania title: Small Towns and Intercomunal Construction. Case Study: Bihor County, Romania date: 2011-10-01 words: 5433 flesch: 44 summary: Eleven TPUs were set up: seven of these have as poles of development towns of Beiuş, Ştei, Marghita, Aleşd, Salonta, Valea lui Mihai, Săcueni. Table 1: The socio-cultural infrastructure of Bihor County small towns Towns High schools Museums Law Court Hospital Aleşd 1 - 1 1 Beiuş 3 1 1 1 Marghita 2 - 1 1 Nucet - - - 1 Săcuieni 2 1 - 1 Salonta 2 1 1 1 Ştei 2 - - 2 Valea lui Mihai 1 - - 1 Vaşcău - - - - Total towns 13 3 4 9 Source: Bihor County Department of Statistics, 2005 Following the analysis on the development potential of the small towns of Bihor County a hierarchy has been established, ranking them into three categories: towns with high development potential, towns with average development potential, and towns with low development potential. keywords: aleşd; bihor; construction; county; development; intercommunal; marghita; potential; towns; urban cache: tras-303.pdf plain text: tras-303.txt item: #62 of 165 id: tras-305 author: NEAMŢU, Bogdana; Lecturer, Public Administration Department, Faculty of Political, Administrative and Communication Sciences, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania title: Public-Private Partnerships for Stimulating the Eco-Efficiency and Environmental Responsability of SMEs date: 2011-10-01 words: 8667 flesch: 46 summary: Furthermore, it is either improved by reducing environmental impact whilst keeping the same economic value, or by expanding economic value whilst remaining on a constant level of environmental impact (p. 6). In terms of environmental impacts achieved, there are empirical studies conducted for lots of companies enrolled in Ecoprofit programs administered by various cities. keywords: business; companies; eco; ecoprofit; efficiency; environment; impact; iso; management; managers; program; public; smes cache: tras-305.pdf plain text: tras-305.txt item: #63 of 165 id: tras-306 author: NISTOR, Laura; Lecturer, Department of Social Sciences, Faculty of Sciences Miercurea Ciuc, Sapientia University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania; TÎRHAŞ, Cristina; Lecturer, Department of Social Sciences, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, Avram Iancu University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania; ILUŢ, Petru; Professor, Department of Sociology, Faculty of Sociology and Social Assistance, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania title: Linkages Between Informal and Formal Social Capital and Their Relations with Forums of Trust. A focus on Romania date: 2011-10-01 words: 8955 flesch: 42 summary: Formal and informal social capital. Thus, their definition of informal social capital follows the approach of Bourdieu (1985) and Coleman (1988) and is based on the relational and reciprocal aspect of transactions conducted within social relationships. keywords: capital; forms; informal; involvement; level; networks; social; trust; types; variables; volunteering cache: tras-306.pdf plain text: tras-306.txt item: #64 of 165 id: tras-309 author: RANTA, Ana Elena; Assistant Professor, Public Administration Department, Faculty of Political, Administrative and Communication Sciences, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania title: The Communication of Local Public Authorities with Mass-Media. Effects and Best Practices date: 2011-10-01 words: 7869 flesch: 34 summary: Mass media has a very important role in public communication. Methodological issues Public communication is a field in which research can be approached from a multitude of perspectives, such as: types of communication, purpose of communication, means of communication, communication content, the effects of communication etc. keywords: administration; authorities; citizens; communication; information; interest; mass; media; press; public cache: tras-309.pdf plain text: tras-309.txt item: #65 of 165 id: tras-31 author: WILLEMSEN, Paulien; Assistant Professor, Utrecht University, Institute of Constitutional and Administrative Law, the Netherlands; BUSSCHER, Rick; Former law student, Utrecht University, the Netherlands; GROOT, Niels; Former law student, Utrecht University, the Netherlands; LANGBROEK, Philip; Montaigne Centre of the Utrecht University School of Law, the Netherlands; LANGERAK, Linnea; Former law student, Utrecht University, the Netherlands title: Final Dispute Settlement in Numbers: Report of an Examination of Final Dispute Settlement in the Utrecht District Court date: 2009-12-09 words: 7498 flesch: 57 summary: Background This article addresses the question of how often administrative courts use the powers they currently have for final settlement of disputes and whether they make optimal use of these powers. The Administrative Law Section wished to examine any possible options for administrative courts to use their procedural and ruling powers in order to contribute to the final settlement of the disputes presented to them. keywords: cases; court; der; heide; marseille; van cache: tras-31.pdf plain text: tras-31.txt item: #66 of 165 id: tras-310 author: ŞANDOR, Sorin Dan; Associate Professor, Public Administration Department, Faculty of Political, Administrative and Communication Sciences, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania; MACARIE, Felicia Cornelia; Associate Professor, Public Administration Department, Faculty of Political, Administrative and Communication Sciences, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania; CREŢA, Simona Claudia; Assistant Professor, Public Administration Department, Faculty of Political, Administrative and Communication Sciences, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania title: Gender Equality in the Romanian Local Public Institutions date: 2011-10-01 words: 4746 flesch: 48 summary: 27,18% 26,85% 34,03% 8,73% 3,20% Men 's condition is much better than women's condition Men 's condition is better than wo men's co ndition Men 's condition and women's co ndition are the same Women's co ndition is better than men's condition Women's co ndition is much better th an men's condition Figure 2: Gender differences in Romania 217 Abstract Gender equality in public institutions is a sensitive topic considering the vast efforts of European countries to overcome the problems raised by gender inequality, gender segregation and gender discrimination in the labor market. keywords: discrimination; equality; gender; institutions; public; romania; stereotypes; traits; women cache: tras-310.pdf plain text: tras-310.txt item: #67 of 165 id: tras-311 author: RANDMA-LIIV, Tiina; NAKROŠIS, Vitalis; HAJNAL, György title: Preface date: 2011-12-30 words: 758 flesch: 26 summary: While the agencification process in Western democracies has attracted enormous scholarly interest in the last two decades, similar trends in CEE countries have received very little attention so far. Sandra van Thiel of the Erasmus University Rotterdam offers an important contribution by placing the agencification process in CEE countries in a broader international context, which allows it to identify “a CEE trajectory” of agencification. keywords: cee; sector cache: tras-311.pdf plain text: tras-311.txt item: #68 of 165 id: tras-312 author: Editors, The title: Preface date: 2009-12-09 words: 1236 flesch: 28 summary: untitled 5 From the Editors The 2009 special issue of the Transylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences is dedicated to “Law and Public Administration” as a tribute to the efforts of the 10th Permanent Study Group of the European Group of Public Administration to foster interdisciplinary approach of the relation between (public) law and public administration. In the second section, assigned to Ombudsman Studies, the papers look at the Ombudsman type institutions and their role in fostering good governance principles, in relation with other public powers and the citizens. keywords: administration; group; law; ombudsman; public cache: tras-312.pdf plain text: tras-312.txt item: #69 of 165 id: tras-313 author: HINŢEA, Călin; Associate Professor, Public Administration Department, Faculty of Political, Administrative and Communication Sciences, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania; HUDREA, Adrian; Researcher, Public Administration Department, Faculty of Political, Administrative and Communication Sciences, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania; BALICA, Dan; Researcher, Public Administration Department, Faculty of Political, Administrative and Communication Sciences, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania title: Patterns of Control in the Romanian Executive Agencies: An Exploratory Research date: 2011-12-30 words: 10554 flesch: 51 summary: Following, the paper examines the theoretical framework of agency control and then approaches the issue related to Romanian agencies. These would be the main facets of agency control. keywords: agencies; agency; autonomy; board; control; control agencies; decision; face; level; ministry; objectives; parent; public cache: tras-313.pdf plain text: tras-313.txt item: #70 of 165 id: tras-314 author: NEMEC, Juraj; Professor, Department of Finance and Accounting, Faculty of Economics, Matej Bel University, Banska Bystrica, Slovakia Banking Institute Prague, Czech Republic; MIKUŠOVÁ MERIČKOVÁ, Beáta; Associate Professor, Department of Public Economics and Regional Development, Faculty of Economics, Matej Bel University, Banska Bystrica, Slovakia; VOZÁROVÁ, Zuzana; PhD Student, Department of Public Economics and Regional Development, Faculty of Economics, Matej Bel University, Banska Bystrica, Slovakia title: Agencification in Slovakia: The Current Situation and Lessons Learned date: 2011-12-30 words: 10605 flesch: 55 summary: We feel that agencification theories could also be applicable on the sub-national level and therefore we also try to examine briefly the area of delivery of local public services, using our regionally unique comprehensive database of field research results. Case study II: The delivery of local public services The delivery of local public services in Slovakia represents an interesting example of different types of “agencies” used by sub-national governments. keywords: agencies; agencification; agency; delivery; education; government; management; new; npm; performance; policy; public; sector; services; slovakia cache: tras-314.pdf plain text: tras-314.txt item: #71 of 165 id: tras-316 author: HINŢEA, Călin Emilian; Associated Professor, Department of Public Administration, Faculty of Political, Administrative and Communication Sciences, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania title: A Strategic Partnership Between Michigan State University and Babeș-Bolyai University: Building an International Educational Hub date: 2012-12-30 words: 2623 flesch: 34 summary: 7 From the East, there is tremendous interest expressed by students coming from the former Soviet Union and its satellite countries to study in Eastern European universities which offer degree programs comparable in content and quality to those offered by universities in the countries of Western Europe but at a significantly lower cost. Increased mobility, broad access to technology, benchmarking practices which allow for the comparison of international practices and performances have generated a tremendous pressure upon universities worldwide. keywords: cluj; napoca; partnership; public; universities; university cache: tras-316.pdf plain text: tras-316.txt item: #72 of 165 id: tras-318 author: BALOGH, Marton; Lecturer, Public Administration Department, Faculty of Political,Administrative and Communication Sciences, Babeş-Bolyai University Cluj-Napoca, Romania title: Non-Governmental Organizations - Factors for Local Development date: 2012-12-30 words: 5499 flesch: 38 summary: Through non-governmental non-profit organizations, the community or group of citizens can influence the decisions taken by the local authorities, promoting solidarity and citizenship development in order to solve problems that are found within that community. With reference to the latter aspect, we believe that if foreign investors create a number of jobs and, through direct investments (even if they are temporary), receive certain facilities, tax deductions, the same treatment should be applied to local non-governmental organizations which attract substantial financial resources, create jobs and implicitly bring an additional economic development in the community every year. keywords: cluj; community; development; napoca; ngos; organizations; profit; public; sector; society cache: tras-318.pdf plain text: tras-318.txt item: #73 of 165 id: tras-319 author: FRUNZĂ, Sandu; Associate Professor, Department of Political Sciences, Faculty of Political, Administrative and Communication Sciences, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania title: Increasing Competence - An Ethical Duty of Civil Servants date: 2012-12-30 words: 4707 flesch: 38 summary: Keywords: ethical codes, professional ethics, competence, ethical expertise, conduct of civil servants. Bogdan Diaconu reveals the importance of ethical codes in close relation to the managerial function and the development of professional ethics: (1) The ethical code as a component of organizational culture. keywords: administration; codes; ethics; organization; professional; public; servants; vol cache: tras-319.pdf plain text: tras-319.txt item: #74 of 165 id: tras-321 author: KOTVAL, Zenia; Professor, Urban and Regional Planning Faculty, School of Planning, Design and Construction, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, United States of America; MACHEMER, Patricia; Associate Professor, Urban and Regional Planning Faculty, School of Planning, Design and Construction, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, United States of America; KEESLER, Jeff; Graduate student, School of Planning, Design and Construction, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, United States of America title: Experiential Learning within the Context of International Partnerships and Study Abroad Programs date: 2012-12-30 words: 5799 flesch: 47 summary: Moreover, given the diversity of student skills and knowledge base, these courses can be difficult to structure. However, given the diversity of student skills and knowledge base, these courses can be difficult to structure. keywords: community; courses; education; international; learning; planning; practice; research; skills; students; study; university cache: tras-321.pdf plain text: tras-321.txt item: #75 of 165 id: tras-323 author: MINEA, Elena Maria; Associate Professor, Public Administration Department, Faculty of Political, Administrative and Communication Sciences, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca title: Back to Agora date: 2012-12-30 words: 4879 flesch: 52 summary: Urban public spaces are those where all the processes related to peoples existence take place and, especially, peoples’ cohabitation. Urban public spaces are those where all the processes related to people’s existence take place and, especially, peoples cohabitation. keywords: cities; city; development; new; people; place; public; spaces; urban; vol cache: tras-323.pdf plain text: tras-323.txt item: #76 of 165 id: tras-324 author: HAMLIN, Roger E.; Professor, Urban and Regional Planning Faculty, School of Planning, Design and Construction, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, United States of America; LAZĂR, Dan T.; Associate Professor, Public Administration Department, Faculty of Political, Administrative and Communication Sciences, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca title: Europe's Southeastern Gateway: Responding to Rapidly Changing Patterns of World Shipping. The University's Role date: 2012-12-30 words: 8089 flesch: 63 summary: Containers may be transferred from container ships to smaller container ships, to special rail flatcars or to semi-trailer trucks, without being opened. Container ship ports Obviously, with ship size increasing rapidly sea ports must be built to accommodate the larger ships. keywords: canal; capacity; constanţa; container; europe; european; logistics; new; panama; port; rail; sea; shipping; ships; size; suez; trade; transportation; world cache: tras-324.pdf plain text: tras-324.txt item: #77 of 165 id: tras-325 author: MULLIN, John; FAICP, Professor, Department of Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, United States of America; KOTVAL-K, Zeenat; Doctoral Candidate, Department of Geography, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, United States of America; COOPER, Jonathan; Graduate student, Department of Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, United States of America title: The University and Local Economic Development date: 2012-12-30 words: 5317 flesch: 54 summary: It must be able to withstand the life of university projects and the term limits of mayors. 126 Abstract Increasing pressures on universities and educational institutions to be more involved in the communities that house them have led to a wave of interactions that have been both creative and mutually supportive. keywords: amherst; city; community; economic; new; partnership; springfield; students; town; universities; university cache: tras-325.pdf plain text: tras-325.txt item: #78 of 165 id: tras-327 author: WARBACH, John D.; Professor and Associate Director, Michigan State University Land Policy Institute, MI, United States of America; GEITH, Christine; Assistant Provost of Michigan State University, Executive Director, MSUglobal and Co-director of the MSU MetroAg Innoversity program, MI, United States of America; SEXTON, Andrea; Master student, Health & Risk Communication Candidate, Michigan State University College of Communication Arts & Sciences, Department of Communication, MI, United States of America; KANEENE, Tessa; Master student, Harvard University Graduate School of Design, Department of Urban Planning & Design, MA, United States of America title: Eight Areas of Competency in Decision Making for Sustainability in Metro Food Systems date: 2012-12-30 words: 6475 flesch: 43 summary: The purpose was to identify the full range of sectors of society involved in the food system, to identify the perceptions of the food system among the city population, test eight sustainability competency areas developed by MSU faculty as concepts and as they related to urban food systems, and to discover what kinds of decision support tools were needed to foster sustainable food systems in Detroit. Focus group questions sought to identify a full range of sectors of society involved in the food system, test the eight sustainability competency areas as concepts and as they related to urban food systems, and to discover what kinds of decision support tools were needed to foster sustainable food systems in Detroit. keywords: agriculture; city; community; detroit; focus; food; group; participants; people; sustainability; systems; urban cache: tras-327.pdf plain text: tras-327.txt item: #79 of 165 id: tras-329 author: MORA, Cristina; Lecturer, Public Administration Department, Faculty of Political, Administrative and Communication Sciences, Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania title: Transformational Leadership in Education: Concept Analysis date: 2012-12-30 words: 3850 flesch: 45 summary: The present paper is focused on offering a short theoretical framing of transformational leadership and discusses from a theoretical standpoint the possibility of a transformational change of the Romanian educational system starting from the transformational leadership paradigm. Keywords: transformational leadership, transactional leadership, education, educational reform, Romania. keywords: bass; change; education; followers; leadership; performance; yukl cache: tras-329.pdf plain text: tras-329.txt item: #80 of 165 id: tras-33 author: GØTZE, Michael; Research Centre of Legal Studies on Welfare and EU Market Integration Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen title: The Danish Ombudsman – A National Watchdog with European Reservations date: 2009-12-09 words: 10365 flesch: 42 summary: 3. Danish ombudsman in practice – a strategy of selected preferences An outline has been provided above of the general ombudsman’s context in Denmark and what the Danish ombudsman is in principle capable of achieving as far as protecting citizens’ rights is concerned. As in many other countries the review by Danish ombudsman is normally based on written material and correspondence between the ombudsman and the authorities and this fact has promoted a normative proceduralisation. keywords: administrative; authorities; cases; community law; danish ombudsman; eu law; european ombudsman; law; ombudsman; ombudsman act; ombudsman institution; public cache: tras-33.pdf plain text: tras-33.txt item: #81 of 165 id: tras-34 author: MONTESH, Moses; Senior lecturer, Department of Police Practice, College of Law, School of Criminal Justice, University of South Africa title: The Functioning of Ombudsman (Public Protector) in South Africa: Redress and Checks and Balances? date: 2009-12-09 words: 6476 flesch: 47 summary: South Africa, ‘Public Protector Act 23 of 1994’, 1994, Pretoria: Government Printer. South Africa, ‘Public Protector Amendment Act 113 of 1998’, 1998, Pretoria: Government Printer. keywords: act; africa; general; government; office; protector; public; report; south; south africa cache: tras-34.pdf plain text: tras-34.txt item: #82 of 165 id: tras-388 author: PÂRVU, Daniela; Lecturer, Department of Economic Theory and Finances, Faculty of Economic Sciences, University of Piteşti, Piteşti, Romania; VOICU-OLTEANU, Cristina; Argeş County Council, Argeş, Romania title: Advantages and Limitations of the Public Private Partnerships and the Possibility of Using Them in Romania date: 2009-10-01 words: 4240 flesch: 44 summary: 197 Conclusion There are multiple advantages of the public-private partnerships: various solutions for the private financing of public projects, decreasing costs for the central or local administrations, use of private know-how and management within public projects, increased efficiency in the project development, a shorter implementation period, technical innovation and a higher quality level of the provided services. PPP projects enable the risk to be optimally spread, and each subject of the partnership to take the risks they are able to manage best. keywords: government; partnership; ppp; ppp projects; projects; public; risk; sector; services; tunnel cache: tras-388.pdf plain text: tras-388.txt item: #83 of 165 id: tras-389 author: Editors, The title: 10 Years of Public Administration at Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca date: 2006-10-01 words: 1300 flesch: -31 summary: Professors from various universities in the US are expected to attend this conference: Michigan State University, State University of New York, University of Delaware, Florida International University, San Diego University, Eastern Michigan University, Smithsonian Institute, National Academy for Public Administration (Washington, DC), and NASPAA (National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration, Washington, DC). 7 LIST OF PARTICIPANTS ANDY ASQUITH, PROFESSOR Department of Management and International Business, Massey University – Auckland, New Zealand GULYAS GYULA, PROFESSOR Department of Public Policy and Management, Faculty of Economics, Corvinus University of Budapest SHUN HAGIWARA, PROFESSOR School of Social Policy and Administration, Hosei University, Japan HAJNAL GYÖRGY, PhD Hungarian Institute of Public Administration, Budapest, Hungary ROGER HAMLIN, PROFESSOR, Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Michigan State University, US ROLF HUNINK, PhD VNG expert JAN IPLAND, PhD, LDGK expert ARNO LOESSNER, PROFESSOR Graduate School of Urban Affairs and Public Policy, Center for Community Research & Service, University of Delaware, US EDMUND MCGARREL, PROFESSOR, Chair, Criminal Justice Department, Michigan State University, US CRISTINA NEESHAM, PROFESSOR Department of Management, Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University, Australia BARBARA NELSON, PhD, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, The U.S. Fulbright Commission in Romania CAROLE NEVES, DIRECTOR Smithsonian Institute, Washington, DC, US DAVID RINGSMUTH, PROFESSOR California State University, Northridge, and Public Administration Department, Babeş-Bolyai University ALLAN ROSENBAUM, PROFESSOR, School of Policy and Management, Florida International University, US, and President, International Association of Schools and Institutes of Administration, Brussels ERIC STRAUSS, PROFESSOR, Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Michigan State University, US JULIAN TEICHER, PROFESSOR, Director, Graduate School of Business and Head, Department of Management, Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University, Australia BERNADINE VAN GRAMBERG, PROFESSOR, Head, School of Management Business, Victoria University, Australia 8 JIM VAN RAVENSWAY, DIRECTOR Director of Planning and Community Development, City of East Lansing, Michigan US LASZLO VARADI, PROFESSOR Department of Public Policy and Management, Faculty of Economics, Corvinus University of Budapest JOSE VASQUEZ, PROFESSOR Faculty of Economic and Entrepreneurial Sciences, Leon University, Spain MARK WILSON, PROFESSOR Chair, Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Michigan State University, US GEORGE POEDE, PROFESSOR, Department of Political Sciences, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, Iasi, Romania ALINA PROFIROIU, PROFESSOR Public Administration Department, Academy of Economic Sciences, Bucharest MARIUS PROFIROIU, PROFESSOR Chair, Public Administration Department, Academy of Economic Sciences, Bucharest CRISTIAN ANGHEL, MAYOR City of Baia Mare CĂTĂLIN BABA, PROFESSOR Dean, Faculty of Political, Administrative, and Communication Sciences MARTON BALOGH, PROFESSOR Public Administration Department, Babeş-Bolyai University GABRIEL BĂDESCU, PROFESSOR Chair, Political Sciences Department, Babeş-Bolyai University OVIDIU BOLDOR, ADMINISTRATIVE DIRECTOR Faculty of Political, Administrative, and Communication Sciences, Babeş-Bolyai University DANIEL BUDA, PROFESSOR Public Administration Department, Babeş-Bolyai University Congressman, Democratic Party ALINA CHERECHEŞ, PROFESSOR Public Administration Department, Babeş-Bolyai University CHRISTIAN CHEREJI, PROFESSOR Communication Department, Babeş-Bolyai University CYNTHIA CURT, PROFESSOR Political Sciences Department, Babeş-Bolyai University Vice-Prefect, Cluj County DACIAN DRAGOŞ, PROFESSOR Public Administration Department, Babeş-Bolyai University Advisor, Ministry of Public Administration and Internal Affairs MARIUS DODU, PROFESSOR Public Administration Department, Babeş-Bolyai University RALUCA GÂRBOAN, PROFESSOR Public Administration Department, Babeş-Bolyai University ELENA GHETE, DIRECTOR Baia Mare City Hall 9 CĂLIN GHIOLŢAN, PROFESSOR Public Administration Department, Babeş-Bolyai University IONEL GOIAN, PROFESSOR Public Administration Department, Babeş-Bolyai University CĂLIN HINŢEA, PROFESSOR Chair, Public Administration Department, Babeş-Bolyai University IOAN HOSU, PROFESSOR Communication Department, Babeş-Bolyai University ADRIAN HUDREA, PROFESSOR Public Administration Department, Babeş-Bolyai University COSMIN IRIMIEŞ, PROFESSOR Communication Department, Babeş-Bolyai University DAN LAZAR, PROFESSOR Public Administration Department, Babeş-Bolyai University DECEBAL LOHAN, VICEPRESIDENT National Agency for Youth Programs CORNELIA MACARIE, PROFESSOR Public Administration Department, Branch Campus Bistriţa, Babeş-Bolyai University LAURA MARUSCA, Ministry of Education and Research ELENA MINEA, PROFESSOR Public Administration Department, Babeş-Bolyai University MIRCEA MINEA, PROFESSOR Law Faculty, Babeş-Bolyai University CRISTINA MORA, PROFESSOR Public Administration Department, Babeş-Bolyai University ALEXANDRU MURESAN, Police Department, Cluj-Napoca IOANA MURESAN Public Information Office, Cluj-Napoca BOGDANA NEAMŢU, PROFESSOR Public Administration Department, Babeş-Bolyai University NATALIA NEGREA, PROFESSOR Public Administration Department, Babeş-Bolyai University CARMEN POP, DIRECTOR Baia Mare City Hall LIVIU RADU, PROFESSOR Public Administration Department, Babeş-Bolyai University Secretary of State, Ministry of Public Administration and Internal Affairs SORIN RADU, DIRECTOR Sapard Program, North Vest Regional Development Agency ANA RANTA, PROFESSOR Public Administration Department, Babeş-Bolyai University 10 CĂLIN RUS, PROFESSOR Chair, Communication Department, Babeş-Bolyai University VIOREL STĂNICĂ, PROFESSOR Public Administration Department, Babeş-Bolyai University Director, Regional Center for Long life Education for Local Public Administration MARIUS STUPARU, Police Department, Cluj-Napoca DAN ŞANDOR, PROFESSOR Public Administration Department, Babeş-Bolyai University ŞTEFAN ŞUTA, PROFESSOR Public Administration Department, Branch Campus Satu-Mare, Babeş-Bolyai University CIPRIAN TRIPON, PROFESSOR Public Administration Department, Branch Campus Bistriţa, Babeş-Bolyai University RALUCA VELIŞCU, PROFESSOR Public Administration Department, Babeş-Bolyai University NICOLAE URS, PROFESSOR Public Administration Department, Babeş-Bolyai University PAUL ZAI, PROFESSOR Public Administration Department, Babeş-Bolyai University Advisor of Secretary of State, Ministry of Public Administration and Internal Affairs keywords: administration department; bolyai; department; professor; public; public administration; university cache: tras-389.pdf plain text: tras-389.txt item: #84 of 165 id: tras-390 author: ZAI, Paul; Teaching Assistant, Department of Public Administration, Faculty of Political, Administrative and Communication Sciences, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca; INCEU, Adrian Mihai; Associate Professor, Department of Finances, Faculty of Economics, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca; LAZĂR, Dan Tudor; Associate Professor, Department of Public Administration, Faculty of Political, Administrative and Communication Sciences, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca title: Zero Base Budgeting Method Applied at Education Expenditures of Cluj-Napoca Budget date: 2006-10-01 words: 5727 flesch: 58 summary: We will obtain an estimated value for total expenditure of 1.128.247 thousands lei, witch is the same with the current expenditure. If we compare the values for total expenditures in 2005, the estimated 2006 and the estimated in 2007 we will see that the total expenditures have a tendency of decreasing, from 1.634.460 thousands lei in 2005 at 1.128.247 thousands lei in 2007. keywords: classes; expenditures; lei; number; school; sums; thousands; total cache: tras-390.pdf plain text: tras-390.txt item: #85 of 165 id: tras-391 author: ASQUITH, Andy; Professor, Department of Management and International Business, Massey University – Auckland, New Zealand title: Reforming Local Government in England: An Examination of the Blairite Agenda date: 2006-06-01 words: 7012 flesch: 54 summary: A contemporary angle to this view is offered by Wilson thus: “Elected local government in the United Kingdom is now one part of an elected mosaic of agencies concerned with community governance. However, many within the Blair inner circles were deeply suspicious as to the motivations and capacity of local government to deliver on these key policies. keywords: 2002; 2003; authorities; blair; change; chronicle; government; labour; london; management; mayor; new; public cache: tras-391.pdf plain text: tras-391.txt item: #86 of 165 id: tras-392 author: GÂRBOAN, Raluca; Teaching Assistant, Department of Public Administration, Faculty of Political, Administrative and Communication Sciences, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania title: Social Impact Assessment – The State of Art date: 2006-06-01 words: 4061 flesch: 44 summary: Presently, there is no metodology for Social Impact Assessments adapted to Romanian realities and particularities. 43 The present research is coming to deal with a constant need within the present-day Romanian institutional framework: building a model for Social Impact Assessment of programs and projects mainly for the public field. keywords: assessment; development; field; impact; impact assessment; international; methodology; public; research; romania; sia; studies cache: tras-392.pdf plain text: tras-392.txt item: #87 of 165 id: tras-394 author: DRAGOȘ, Dacian C.; Associate Professor, Department of Public Administration, Faculty of Political, Administrative and Communication Sciences, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca; NEAMȚU, Bogdana; Assistant Professor, Department of Public Administration, Faculty of Political, Administrative and Communication Sciences, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca title: The Rise and Evolution of Freedom of Information Legal Regime in the European Union date: 2006-02-01 words: 8012 flesch: 41 summary: During the timeframe when the Code of conduct was in place, a series of court cases agitated the easy life of European Union institutions (Peers 2002, Naôme 2002, Öberg, 1999). Moreover, the Court was able to differentiate between documents concerned with “operational matters of Europol itself” (which none of the documents enclosed) and the negotiations (including the views of European Union governments) on the adoption of the Europol Convention (which the documents did include), observing that there was no evidence that disclosure would “be liable to prejudice a particular aspect of public security”. keywords: access; case; commission; council; court; decision; documents; european union; information; institutions; public; regulation; report cache: tras-394.pdf plain text: tras-394.txt item: #88 of 165 id: tras-396 author: CURT, Cynthia Carmen; Assistant Professor, PhD, Political Sciences Department, Faculty of Political, Administrative and Communication Sciences, Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania President of the National Council of Integrity, Bucharest, Romania title: Public Integrity and New Rules of Conduct for Romanian MPs: A Romanian Case Study date: 2013-12-01 words: 10212 flesch: 39 summary: 948 of 25 October 2005, regulates in articles 177 and 178: ‘Conflict of interests, determination of incompat- ibilities and other prohibitions’, resuming the provisions stipulated in Law no. 161/2003 on parliamentary incompatibilities. Incompatibility procedure for Members of Parliament The constitutional sanction for incompatibility of the parliamentary mandate is its termination. keywords: art; court; government; incompatibility; integrity; interests; law; mandate; mps; office; report; romania; senator cache: tras-396.pdf plain text: tras-396.txt item: #89 of 165 id: tras-397 author: DABIJA, Dan Cristian; Assoc. Prof., PhD, Department of Marketing, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Babeş Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania; BĂBUŢ (COMIATI), Raluca; Lecturer, PhD, Department of Marketing, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania; POP, Ciprian Marcel; Associate Professor, PhD, Department of Marketing, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania title: A Customer-Oriented Approach to Satisfaction with Public Service Providers. Empirical Findings from a Market Undergoing Liberalization date: 2013-12-01 words: 10972 flesch: 44 summary: 3. Marketing mix of public services There are a number of striking similarities between the marketing mix of public utilities and that of private suppliers. The heterogeneous nature of public services demands that a compromise be reached between performance and flexibility, between standardization and differen- tiation (Tănăsescu, 2008, p. 51). keywords: citizens; companies; consumers; customer; effect; electrica; electricity; energy; gas; market; marketing; orientation; prices; providers; public; research; romania; satisfaction; services; suppliers; utility; vol; web cache: tras-397.pdf plain text: tras-397.txt item: #90 of 165 id: tras-4 author: DAN, Horaţiu; Assistant Professor, PhD, Faculty of European Studies, Babeș- Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania title: The Euro Zone – between Fiscal Heterogeneity and Monetary Unity date: 2014-11-04 words: 7448 flesch: 44 summary: Last but not least, we set forth potential solutions that would promote Euro Zone fiscal discipline and would help eliminate asymmetric shocks, thus creating a more uniform economic environment in which Member States enjoy an increased fi- nancial health and in which monetary policy can be more efficiently conducted. This way, national governments would lose legal authority to breach certain fiscal thresh- olds and would be bounded to respect Euro Zone fiscal discipline. keywords: currency; debt; economic; euro; euro zone; european; gdp; government; instruments; member; national; policy; states; zone cache: tras-4.pdf plain text: tras-4.txt item: #91 of 165 id: tras-401 author: NUTT, Nele; Lecturer, Department of Landscape Architecture, Tallinn University of Technology, Tartu College, Estonia; HIOB, Mart; Lecturer, Department of Landscape Architecture, Tallinn University of Technology, Tartu College, Estonia; NURME, Sulev; Lecturer, Department of Landscape Architecture, Tallinn University of Technology, Tartu College, Estonia; SALMISTU, Sirle; Lecturer, Department of Landscape Architecture, Tallinn University of Technology, Tartu College, Estonia title: Gentrification in a Post-Socialist Town: The Case of the Supilinn District, Tartu, Estonia date: 2013-12-01 words: 6924 flesch: 59 summary: This particular article is based on the results of in-depth interviews and a structured questionnaire (Supilinn Society, 2011); these were carried out in 2011, and they allow evaluating the course and the current state of the gentrification process in the Supilinn district. Considering the general unpopu- larity of the area (in 1998 over 60% of the residents of Tartu thought that the Supilinn district was unsuitable for living (Tartu City Government, 1998)), it is likely that most of the people who arrived in the district in the mid-1990s chose the area because of their financial limitations (Supilinn Society, 2011), while the renewed reputation cre- 2 Toomas Kalve, photograph; interview by Aliis Liin in 2011. keywords: area; city; district; estonia; gentrification; people; residents; society; supilinn; supilinn district; tartu cache: tras-401.pdf plain text: tras-401.txt item: #92 of 165 id: tras-403 author: PROFIROIU, Alina Georgiana; Associate Professor, Faculty of Administration and Public Management, Academy of Economic Studies, Bucharest, Romania title: Lecturer and Student Perspective Regarding Teaching Public Aministration in Romania date: 2013-12-01 words: 6334 flesch: 41 summary: They have guided me in interpreting the findings. – H1: There are significant differences between staff opinions and student prefer- ences related to teaching methods and stimulation methods of student interest for administrative science (or equivalent) as discipline. – H2: There are significant differences between student preferences for teaching methods and those used in reality. In addition, I compared the mean values of these questions with those obtained for question 2.5 of teacher questionnaires (in the case of teaching methods) because I was concerned if there were any differences between student preferences and teacher perception of student preference. keywords: administration; discipline; interest; methods; preferences; public; research; students; teachers; teaching cache: tras-403.pdf plain text: tras-403.txt item: #93 of 165 id: tras-406 author: VLAD, Tudor; Senior Research Scientist, PhD., Associate Director, James M. Cox Jr. Center for International Mass Communication Training and Research, Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication, of Georgia, Athens, USA title: Is There Anybody Out There? For a Better Communication Between Romanian Public Administrators and Their Constituencies date: 2013-12-01 words: 3367 flesch: 46 summary: Though there are still many public administration units in the rural areas of Romania that are not well equipped and the Internet access in those regions is limited (mostly because people cannot afford to buy a computer), it is not too early to talk about the use of ICT (information and communication tech- 193 nologies) in local public administration. In a study of the new media market in one Romanian community, the city of Cluj-Napoca, Vingan (2013) found that bloggers wanted to differentiate themselves from the journalists working for local media, but were willing to compete against the local media in terms of audience. keywords: administration; administrators; communication; government; internet; media; new; public; romania cache: tras-406.pdf plain text: tras-406.txt item: #94 of 165 id: tras-407 author: KOTNIK, Žiga; Assistant, PhD candidate, Department of Economicsand Public Sector Management, Faculty of Administration, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia; KLUN, Maja; Associate Professor, PhD, Department of Economicsand Public Sector Management, Faculty of Administration, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia; ŠKULJ, Damjan; Associate Professor, PhD, Department of Social Informatics and Methodology, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia title: The Effect of Taxation on Greenhouse Gas Emissions date: 2014-10-01 words: 7557 flesch: 48 summary: We have shown that the direct effect of environmental taxes on GHG emissions is negative, while the indirect effect through en- vironmental expenditures is also negative and even more statistically significant. Environmental taxes have been frequently advocated as a cost-effective instrument for reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. keywords: co2; e.g.; economic; effect; emissions; energy; eurostat; expenditures; ghg; ghg emissions; government; processes; taxes; variables cache: tras-407.pdf plain text: tras-407.txt item: #95 of 165 id: tras-412 author: JORGE, Susana Margarida; Assistant Professor, Faculty of Economics,University of Coimbra, Coimbra PortugalCentre for Research on Public Policy and Administration (NEAPP), University of Minho, Braga, Portugal; JORGE DE JESUS, Maria Antonia; Accounting Department, ISCTE Business School, University Institute of Lisbon (ISCTE – IUL), BRU-IUL, Lisbon, Portugal; LAUREANO, Raul M.S.; Assistant Professor, Quantitative Methods for Management and Economics Department, ISCTE Business School, University Institute of Lisbon (ISCTE – IUL), BRU-IUL,Lisbon, Portugal title: Exploring Determinant Factors of Differences Between Governmental Accounting And National Accounts Budgetary Balances in EU Member States date: 2014-12-15 words: 9493 flesch: 44 summary: e.g.: – Is it relevant the fact that the GA budgetary balance (‘working balance’ as the starting point for NA budgetary balance) is cash-based or accrual-based? – What about the sign of the NA budgetary balance (deficit/surplus) as a result of adjustments? – Is the sign of the total adjustments, as representing the positive/negative impact of adjusting the GA budgetary balance due to conceptual differences between the two systems, important for the adjustments’ materiality and diversity? NA budgetary balance is, on average, lower (higher average deficit) than GA balance, except in 2008. keywords: accounting; adjustments; balance; basis; budgetary; deficit; differences; diversity; materiality; surplus; systems; variables cache: tras-412.pdf plain text: tras-412.txt item: #96 of 165 id: tras-413 author: KÁDÁR, Magor; Lecturer, Department of Communication, Public Relations and Advertising, Faculty of Political, Administrative and Communication Sciences, Babeş-Bolyai University,Cluj-Napoca, Romania title: The Process of Settlement Branding. Case Studies on City Branding in Transylvania date: 2014-12-15 words: 6804 flesch: 49 summary: Keywords: city branding, regional brand- ing, settlement branding, geographical location branding, communication, branding process, positioning, target groups, auto-stereotypes, het- ero-stereotypes. Introduction Settlement or city branding means to find an unparalleled position for the city in question which arises from its endowments that make it unique, recognizable and dis- tinguishable compared to other municipalities. keywords: branding; city; city branding; communication; development; groups; image; planning; process; project; public; settlement; target; values cache: tras-413.pdf plain text: tras-413.txt item: #97 of 165 id: tras-414 author: KERSAN-ŠKABIĆ, Ines; Professor, Faculty of Economics and Tourism ‘Dr. Mijo Mirković’, Juraj Dobrila University of Pula, Pula, Croatia; TIJANIĆ, Lela; Postdoctoral researcher, Faculty of Economics and Tourism ‘Dr. Mijo Mirković’, Juraj Dobrila University of Pula, Pula title: Regional Determinants of Foreign Direct Investments in Croatia date: 2014-12-15 words: 9139 flesch: 53 summary: The analysis in this paper focuses on the impact of different FDI determinants on regional FDI by using panel data analysis which is described below. The analysis will include relevant and accessible information in a way that the obtained models will give the best possible explanation of FDI determinants in the Croatian regions. keywords: analysis; countries; croatia; data; determinants; fdi; investment; level; market; model; panel; regions; test; variables; vol cache: tras-414.pdf plain text: tras-414.txt item: #98 of 165 id: tras-415 author: MAKSIĆ, Milica; PhD, Senior Planner, Institute of Urban Planning, City of Niš, Republic of Serbia title: The Neo-Institutional Framework of Large-Scale Retail Spatial Policy Formulation Processin Serbia date: 2014-12-15 words: 10106 flesch: 43 summary: Methods of research included: a. institutional analysis of the current roles of actors in the process of policies for- mulation related to large scale retail building in Serbia and the problems encoun- tered in the process; b. The basic objective of the research is to explore possible ways of im- provement of institutional framework of spatial and urban policy formulation in Serbia in order to make the decision-making process on large- scale retail building more effective and to ade- quately address the complex problems of this type of building. keywords: actors; building; construction; formulation; framework; governance; levels; planning; plans; policies; policy; process; retail; scale; serbia; stores; urban cache: tras-415.pdf plain text: tras-415.txt item: #99 of 165 id: tras-417 author: MUREȘAN, Mariana; Professor PhD, Accounting Department, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Babeș-Bolyai University,Cluj Napoca, Romania; DAVID, Delia; Associate Professor, Faculty of Economics, ‘Vasile Goldiș’ Western University of Arad, Arad, Romania; ELEK, Ladislau; Lecturer PhD, Faculty of Economics, ‘Vasile Goldiș’ Western University of Arad, Arad, Romania; DUMITER, Florin; Associate Professor PhD, Faculty of Economics, ‘Vasile Goldiș’ Western University of Arad, Arad, Romania title: Value Added Tax Impacton Economic Activity: Importance, Implication and Assessment –The Romanian Experience date: 2014-12-15 words: 7562 flesch: 62 summary:      Hence, (21) will be written as: 2 2 ( ) ( )(1 ) . The assessment of VAT tax incidence reduces to the analysis: at first, VAT is tan- tamount to a tax levied only on a bestselling retail stage when we are interested in the effects of the changes in the rate applied to an object; second, incidence of a tax in general balance when we are interested in the effects of simultaneous changes in VAT for all goods and services. keywords: demand; economic; following; tax; vat; y t;   cache: tras-417.pdf plain text: tras-417.txt item: #100 of 165 id: tras-418 author: NICA, Elvira; Associate Professor, Ph.D., Department of Administration and Public Management, Administration and Public Management Faculty, Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Bucharest, Romania; Popescu, Gheorghe H.; Professor, Ph.D., Department of Finance, Banking, and Accountancy, Faculty of Finance and Banking, ‘Dimitrie Cantemir’ Christian University, Bucharest, Romania; NICOLĂESCU, Eugen; Associate Professor, Ph.D., Department of Finance, Banking, and Accountancy, Faculty of Accountancy and Audit, ‘Dimitrie Cantemir’ Christian University, Bucharest, Romania; CONSTANTIN, Vlad Denis; Associate Professor, Ph.D., Department of General Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, ‘Carol Davila’ University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Bucharest, Romania title: The Effectiveness of Social Media Implementation at Local Government Levels date: 2014-12-15 words: 6627 flesch: 35 summary: There is an association between e-government use and civic engagement that may be supported by the online information and communication opportunities: citizens who are interested and informed tend to use digital government to support their civic en- gagement (the information capacity of e-government may influence the possibilities for government interaction with citizens) (Haller, Li and Mossberger, 2011). The results of the cur- rent study converge with prior research on the impact of digital government on civic engagement, citizen feedback through e-government use of social media, and organi- zational barriers in information technology. keywords: citizens; engagement; governance; government; information; management; media; participation; public; use; vol cache: tras-418.pdf plain text: tras-418.txt item: #101 of 165 id: tras-420 author: TERZIĆ, Aleksandra; Researcher, Department of Social Geography, Geographical Institute ‘Jovan Cvijić’ of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Art, Belgrade, Serbia; JOVIČIĆ, Ana; PhD student, Department of Geography, Tourism and Hotel Management, Faculty of Science, University of Novi Sad, Serbia; SIMEUNOVIĆ-BAJIĆ, Nataša; Assistant professor, Faculty of Culture and Media, Megatrend University, Belgrade, Serbia title: Community Role in Heritage Management and Sustainable Turism Development: Case Study of the Danube Regionin Serbia date: 2014-12-15 words: 8152 flesch: 38 summary: In this particular case, regarding cultural tourism development, there are several Ministries that should be engaged in some parts of development activities: Ministry of Culture and Information (Sector for cultural heritage, Sector for cultur- al production and creative industry, Sector for information), Ministry of Economy (Sector for tourism, Sector for tourism inspection), Ministry of Regional Development and Local Government (Sector for regional development, Sector for local government, Sector for investment in infrastructure projects), etc. Potential of cultural tourism development from residents’ perspective The population of Serbia has generally been open-minded considering the possi- bilities for the development of tourism within their municipalities. keywords: community; cultural; danube; danube region; development; heritage; level; management; process; region; residents; serbia; tourism; tourism development cache: tras-420.pdf plain text: tras-420.txt item: #102 of 165 id: tras-421 author: WYNEN, Jan; Dr., KU Leuven Public Governance Institute,Leuven, Belgium title: Using Financial Management Techniqueswith in Public Sector Organizations, Does Result Control Matter? A Heterogeneous Choice Approach date: 2014-12-15 words: 9840 flesch: 52 summary: Table 5: Marginal effects for the ordered logit and heterogeneous choice models without interactions, focusing on the effect of high result control (1) (2) Ordered logit Heterogeneous choice NO USE OF COST CALCULATION SYSTEMS High result control -0.160*** -0.261*** (6.97e-05) (4.22e-08) SOME USE OF COST CALCULATION SYSTEMS High result control 0.0434*** 0.221*** (0.00435) (0.000221) HIGH USE OF COST CALCULATION SYSTEMS High result control 0.116*** 0.0398 (0.000581) (0.356) pval in parentheses. Agencies in Belgium or Romania are in general faced with lower levels of result control, while agencies in Germany are more often subject to high result control. keywords: agencies; autonomy; control; cost; effect; management; management techniques; model; organizations; public; result; result control; sector; use; vol cache: tras-421.pdf plain text: tras-421.txt item: #103 of 165 id: tras-423 author: BENEDEK, József; Professor, Department of World and Regional Economics, Faculty of Economics, University of Miskolc, Miskolc, Hungary; BAJTALAN, Hunor; PhD. student, Faculty of Geography, Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania title: Recent Regionalization Discourses and Projects in Romania with Special Focus on the Székelyland date: 2015-02-15 words: 9230 flesch: 39 summary: It would enable a compromise which is necessary for the application of the prin- ciple of subsidiarity – which tends to increase the number of territorial units in order to bring decision closer to the citizens – and the principle of efficiency, which tends to create larger units in order to increase the economic efficiency of public services. 33.2 45.2 1.98 4 Székelyland as administrative-territorial unit (e.g. region) with stronger ad- ministrative powers would determine the overall, long-term survival of the Hungarian/Székely culture. 35.9 41.9 1.96 5 At the establishment of a Székelyland administrative-territorial unit (e.g. re- gion) we shouldn’t be frightened to constitute a common unit with a county with Romanian majority, but strong economic background. 13.6 24.6 2.81 6 None of the above mentioned concepts solve the problems of Székelyland, the only solution is ethnic territorial autonomy. keywords: administrative; counties; development; hungarian; level; majority; nuts; process; question; reform; regionalization; regions; reorganization; respondents; romania; state; székelyland cache: tras-423.pdf plain text: tras-423.txt item: #104 of 165 id: tras-425 author: DAN, Sorin; Doctoral researcher, Public Governance Institute, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium title: The New Public Managementis Not That Bad After All: Evidence From Estonia, Hungary and Romania date: 2015-02-15 words: 8534 flesch: 51 summary: The result is a database of 519 studies of NPM reforms across Europe. Do NPM reforms ‘work’? keywords: administration; estonia; europe; hungary; management; npm; performance; policy; public; reform; romania; sector; service; studies cache: tras-425.pdf plain text: tras-425.txt item: #105 of 165 id: tras-427 author: FRANTÁL, Bohumil; Scientifc worker, Department of Environmental Geography, Institute of Geonics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Brno, Czech Republic; KUNC, Josef; Visiting researcher, Department of Environmental Geography, Institute of Geonics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Brno, Czech Republic; KLUSÁČEK, Petr; Scientifc worker, Department of Environmental Geography, Institute of Geonics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Brno, Czech Republic; MARTINÁT, Stanislav; Scientifc worker, Department of Environmental Geography, Institute of Geonics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Brno, Czech Republic title: Assessing Success Factors of Brownfields Regeneration: International and Inter-Stakeholder Perspective date: 2015-02-15 words: 7468 flesch: 34 summary: The emphasis on political and geographical factors increases with the level of experience of stakeholders, while the empha- sis on site specific factors decreases with the length of experience. The database comprised brownfield sites with an area greater than 1 hectare from all regions of the Czech Republic excluding the capital Prague. keywords: brownfields; countries; czech; economic; factors; regeneration; republic; romania; sites; stakeholders; vol cache: tras-427.pdf plain text: tras-427.txt item: #106 of 165 id: tras-429 author: GARAČA, Vuk; Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, Tourism and Hotel Management, Faculty of Sciences, University of Novi Sad, Novi Sad, Serbia; JOVANOVIĆ, Gordana; Associate Professor, Department of Geography, Tourism and Hotel Management, Faculty of Sciences, University of Novi Sad, Novi Sad, Serbia; ĆURČIĆ, Nevena; Associate Professor, Department of Geography, Tourism and Hotel Management, Faculty of Sciences, University of Novi Sad, Novi Sad, Serbia; VUKOSAV, Svetlana; Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, Tourism and Hotel Management, Faculty of Sciences, University of Novi Sad, Novi Sad, Serbia title: Spatial Planning for Transit Tourism on The Highway: A Case Study of Highway Е-75 Through Vojvodina (Horgoš – Belgrade Section) date: 2015-02-15 words: 8835 flesch: 50 summary: The specific need for accommodation and other passenger services emerged with the adjustment of hospitality services to motorized passengers. Spatial plans for Highway Е-75 There are several plans that address the issues of arranging and equipping the Highway Е-75 with various passenger services. keywords: correlation; data; highway; overnight; passenger; plan; planning; research; section; services; stays; tourism; transit; vehicles; е-75 cache: tras-429.pdf plain text: tras-429.txt item: #107 of 165 id: tras-430 author: LEE, Yoonseock; Assistant Professor, Faculty of Public Administration, Keimyung University, Daegu, South Korea title: Flexicure Employment of Older People in Super-Aged Societies date: 2015-02-15 words: 7365 flesch: 53 summary: Specifically, flexicurity includes hiring/termination flexibility (external-numeri- cal flexibility), work hour flexibility (internal-numerical flexibility), a variety of em- ployment possibilities (functional flexibility), wage flexibility, employment security within the same company (job security), security in employment possibilities within the labor market including job change (employment security2), income security3, and work-life balance security (combination security; Wilthagen and Tros, 2004). Because employment security is related to the overall employment security in the labor mar- ket and leads to proactive labor market policies and active life for older people, it can be said that it is a higher concept than job security, which is centered on the internal labor market. keywords: employment; japan; job; labor; market; people; probability; rate; retirement; security; wage cache: tras-430.pdf plain text: tras-430.txt item: #108 of 165 id: tras-431 author: NAUMESCU, Valentin; Associate Professor Ph.D., Department of International Relations and American Studies, Faculty of European Studies, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania title: Diplomatic Services Today: Between Political Decisions and Administrative Criteria date: 2015-02-15 words: 9438 flesch: 42 summary: Keywords: foreign policy, diplomacy, poli- tics, bureaucracy, diplomatic service, Romania, reform. In order to under- stand this ‘double standard’ assessment of diplomacy that stirs so much controversy on it, a definition of diplomatic service would be useful for a clear start of our analysis. keywords: accession; affairs; diplomacy; european; foreign; foreign affairs; government; minister; ministry; new; policy; public; reform; romania; service; state cache: tras-431.pdf plain text: tras-431.txt item: #109 of 165 id: tras-433 author: ROMOLINI, Alberto; Assistant Professor, Faculty of Economics, International Telematic University Uninettuno, Rome, Italy; FISSI, Silvia; Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Businessand Economics, University of Florence, Florence, Italy; GORI, Elena; Assistant Professor, Department of Business and Economics, University of Florence, Florence, Italy title: Quality Disclosure in Sustainability Reporting: Evidence From Universities date: 2015-02-15 words: 11711 flesch: 52 summary: The research measured the quality level of disclosure, eval- uating the use in absolute terms of sustainability reporting indicators (Table 2). 196 Abstract Attention towards sustainability reporting is very high with reference to higher education. keywords: analysis; economic; education; gri; indicators; management; performance; quality; reporting; reports; research; responsibility; studies; sustainability; sustainability reporting; universities; university; vol cache: tras-433.pdf plain text: tras-433.txt item: #110 of 165 id: tras-434 author: ABRUDAN, Maria-Madela; Associate professor, Department of Management – Marketing, Faculty of Economics, University of Oradea, Oradea, Romania; SĂVEANU, Tomina Gabriela; Researcher, Research Center for Adult Education, University of Oradea, Oradea, Romania; MATEI, Mirabela; Teaching assistant, Department of Management – Marketing, Faculty of Economics, University of Oradea, Oradea, Romania; UJHELYI, Mária; Associate professor, Department of Management – Marketing, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, University of Debrecen, Debrecen, Hungary title: Obstacles, Realities and Opportunities in Human Resources Management in Public Administration Institutions From Bihor County (Romania) and Hajdú-Bihar County (Hungary) date: 2015-06-17 words: 7599 flesch: 40 summary: 8 The scientifi c literature underlines that work motivation among public employees and managers is diff erent from that of private sector employees (Wright apud Islam and Ismail, 2008, p. 346). Also, performance evaluation process of employees has to be an objective one and must refl ect the actual results of the work of public employees. keywords: diff; employees; erences; evaluation; hungarian; hungary; institutions; management; managers; motivation; public; romania; work cache: tras-434.pdf plain text: tras-434.txt item: #111 of 165 id: tras-437 author: HAMLIN, Roger; Professor, Urban and Regional Planning Department,School of Planning, Design and Construction,Michigan State University, East Lansing, USA title: Europe’s Southeastern Gateway: Romania’s Public Policy Respose to Changing Patterns of World Shipping date: 2015-06-17 words: 8892 flesch: 65 summary: Container ships are divided into seven major size categories: (1) small feeder, (2) feeder, (3) feeder- max, (4) panamax, (5) post-panamax, (6) new panama, and (7) ultra-large (Hayler and Keever, 2003).The word ‘panamax’ refers to the maximum size of a ship that is able to pass through the Panama Canal. But, it can only handle container ships ½ the size of the largest vessels, and the rail and highway links from Constanţa to the rest of Europe are underdeveloped. keywords: canal; capacity; china; constanţa; container; europe; european; global; maritime; new; panama; port; shipping; ships; size; trade; transport; transportation; world cache: tras-437.pdf plain text: tras-437.txt item: #112 of 165 id: tras-438 author: HOSU, Ramona; Associate Professor, Faculty of Sciences and Letters, Petru Maior University, Târgu-Mureş, Romania title: Equality or Religious Freedom? The Indiana RFRA. Some Media Representations date: 2015-06-17 words: 10699 flesch: 35 summary: Religious freedom is among those rights that call for a discrimination between individual conscience and communal peace, says Raz (p. 251); in his point of view, since religion is a social institution that embraces a community, ‘the right to free religious worship’ is not only ‘a right of communities to pursue their style of life and aspects of it’ but also ‘a right of individuals to belong to respected communities’; in other words, explains Joseph Raz, even if religious freedom was conceived of in ‘terms of the interests of individuals’, it actually depended on the existence of a public good, namely: ‘the existence of religious communities within which people pursued the freedom that the right guaranteed them’ (p. 251) (emphasis added). The editorial published on 3 April (‘Big Business and Anti-Gay Laws’) debates on this issue calling it a ‘bargain’ in which companies simply react to ‘the change in public opinion about same-sex marriage’; since corporations have infl uential voices on the political stage, once they ‘are embarrassed by religious freedom laws’, they should consider when to support political interests, underlines the Editorial Board of The New York Times. keywords: april; bill; equality; freedom; gay; identity; indiana; individual; law; liberty; marriage; new; religion; rights; social; states; times; york cache: tras-438.pdf plain text: tras-438.txt item: #113 of 165 id: tras-440 author: KOSTALOVA, Jana; Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Economy and Management of Chemical and Food Industry, Faculty of Chemical Technology, University of Pardubice, Pardubice, Czech Republic; TETREVOVA, Libena; Associate Professor, Department of Economy and Managementof Chemical and Food Industry, Faculty of Chemical Technology, University of Pardubice, Pardubice, Czech Republic; PATAK, Michal; Assistant Professor, Department of Economy and Management of Chemical and Food Industry, Faculty of Chemical Technology, University of Pardubice, Pardubice, Czech Republic title: The System of Support for Projects Co-Financed By EU Funds in the Czech Republic date: 2015-06-17 words: 8048 flesch: 36 summary: According to the project organizers, the areas causing the largest problems within the phase of drawing up an application for project support and during the project implementation phase include: the scope of requirements concerning the processing of project applications and annexes, the system of monitoring reports with respect to its administrative load, the deadlines for evaluation of project applications, and the deadlines for evaluation of monitoring reports. Organizers of projects co-fi nanced through EU funds in the CZ see as the most benefi cial measure for improving project implementation system the decrease in the administrative demands of the projects. keywords: applications; funds; measures; ministry; monitoring; organizers; project; project implementation; respondents; support; system cache: tras-440.pdf plain text: tras-440.txt item: #114 of 165 id: tras-441 author: MIONEL, Viorel; Lecturer, Department of Tourism and Geography, Faculty of Business and Tourism, Bucharest Academy of Economic Studies, Bucharest, Romania,; GAVRIȘ, Alexandru; Lecturer, Department of Tourism and Geography, Faculty of Business and Tourism, Bucharest Academy of Economic Studies, Bucharest, Romania title: Administrative Policies in Urban Segregated Spaces. The Case of the Romanian Ghettos date: 2015-06-17 words: 11095 flesch: 62 summary: With the exception of these elements, the ghett o reveals to the outside world – almost everywhere – a distinct space with unique characteris- tics: poverty, which seems a derivative element (Wacquant, 2011); segregation - not all segregated spaces are ghett os, but all the ghett os are segregated; a ghett o is diff er- ent of an ethnic enclave; a ghett o is isolated from the outside and congregated within; social sustainability and ghett o represents two diverging issues. Even if the spatial process approached by this paper was not named ghett o in the countries where it has developed, this does not mean its denial. keywords: cities; city; diff; ghett; ghett o; living; new; policies; population; romanian; rroma; segregation; social; spaces; urban; vol cache: tras-441.pdf plain text: tras-441.txt item: #115 of 165 id: tras-442 author: MIRICESCU, Emilian-Constantin; Associate Professor, Department of Finance, Facultyof Finance, Insurance, Banking and Stock Exchange, Center of Financial and Monetary Research, Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Bucharest, Romania title: The Correlation of Sovereign Rating and Bonds’ Interest Rate in EU Member States date: 2015-06-17 words: 5300 flesch: 58 summary: Literature review In recent years, the correlation between sovereign rating and interest rates on bonds was studied in several quantitative papers; almost all the articles emphasize systematic analysis of sovereign ratings (Cantor and Packer, 1996). The au- thors used sovereign ratings established by the rating agency Standard & Poor’s, and they concluded that there is a bidirectional causality relationship between external public debt and sovereign rating. keywords: bonds; data; debt; gdp; government; interest; poor; rate; rating; ratio; standard cache: tras-442.pdf plain text: tras-442.txt item: #116 of 165 id: tras-443 author: NAVARRO GALERA, Andrés; Professor, Financial Economics and Accounting Department, University of Granada, Granada, Spain; RÍOS BERJILLOS, Araceli de los; Professor, Business Organization Department,Loyola Andalucía University, Córdoba, Spain; RUIZ LOZANO, Mercedes; Professor, Financial Economics and Accounting Department, Loyola Andalucía University, Córdoba, Spain; TIRADO VALENCIA, Pilar; Professor, Financial Economics and Accounting Department, Loyola Andalucía University, Córdoba, Spain title: Identifying Motivation of the Local Governments to Improve the Sustainability Transparency date: 2015-06-17 words: 9238 flesch: 46 summary: Research methodology Linear regression analysis was used to identify factors infl uencing the online dis- semination of government information on sustainability. This interest in the communication of sustainability information has led to the publication of international guidelines for the disclosure by public bodies of their commitments on sustainability. keywords: disclosure; factor; government; information; population; public; social; sustainability; transparency; variables; vol cache: tras-443.pdf plain text: tras-443.txt item: #117 of 165 id: tras-444 author: NEMEC, Juraj; Professor, Matej Bel University Banska Bystrica, Slovakiaand Masaryk University Brno, Czech Republic; SPACEK, David; Assistant Professor, Department of Public Economics,Faculty of Economics and Administration, Masaryk University Brno, Czech Republic; de VRIES, Michiel; Professor, Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands and Masaryk University Brno, Czech Republic title: Coordinating Healthcare Under a Pluralistic Health Insurance System: The Case of Slovakia date: 2015-06-17 words: 7975 flesch: 48 summary: It showed how the initial interpretation of minimum network as an assurance for general access to healthcare services slowly changed into a cutback, making the minimum network an upper limit for healthcare. Provan, Fish and Sydow (2007) scrutinized contemporary articles dealing with inter-organizational networks in industry. keywords: access; companies; healthcare; hospitals; inpatient; insurance; level; minimum; ministry; network; public; regions; services; slovakia cache: tras-444.pdf plain text: tras-444.txt item: #118 of 165 id: tras-445 author: RAKAR, Iztok; Assistant professor, Department of Administrative Law, Faculty of Administration, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia; TIČAR, Bojan; Professor, Department of Law, Faculty of Criminal Justice and Security, University of Maribor, Maribor, Slovenia; KLUN, Maja; Associate professor, Department of Economics and Management of Public Sector, Faculty of Administration, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia title: Inter-Municipal Cooperation: Challenges in Europe and in Slovenia date: 2015-06-17 words: 6811 flesch: 50 summary: Some states retained smaller munic- ipalities and at the same time created a new level of local bodies known as ‘offi ces’ or ‘administrative unions’ (Burgi, 2012). The Court of Audit of the Republic of Slovenia (2012) feels that the option for founding JMA bodies, together with co-fi nancing for the operations of these bodies as well as the entire system of fi nancing municipalities, in fact has the opposite eff ect: in its opinion, these factors are responsible for a lack of interest in mergers among smaller municipalities. keywords: 2010; bodies; european; government; imc; jma; municipalities; public; reforms; self; slovenia; state; vol cache: tras-445.pdf plain text: tras-445.txt item: #119 of 165 id: tras-446 author: SCHVAB, Andrei; PhD., researcher, Interdisciplinary Centre for Advanced Research on Territorial Dynamics, University of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania; PINTILII, Radu; Lecturer, Department of Human and Economic Geography, Faculty of Geography, University of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania; PEPTENATU, Daniel; Associate professor, Department of Human and Economic Geography, Faculty of Geography, University of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania; STOIAN, Daniela; PhD., researcher, Interdisciplinary Centre for Advanced Research on Territorial Dynamics, University of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania title: Spatial Profile of Poverty.Case Study:The North-Eastern Development Region in Romania date: 2015-06-17 words: 6847 flesch: 46 summary: This system comprises development poles and directions of polarization. Also, territorial specifi cities should be taken into account when trying to man- age the relations between development poles and underdeveloped areas. keywords: bacău; development; development pole; index; level; north; pole; poverty; region; space; study; system; vol cache: tras-446.pdf plain text: tras-446.txt item: #120 of 165 id: tras-45 author: COJOCARU, Ştefan; Associate Professor, Department of Sociology and Social Work, Faculty of Philosophy and Social Sciences, “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University, Iaşi, Romania; BRĂGARU, Constantin; Lecturer, PhD, Department of Business Administration and Marketing, Faculty of Economics, “Nicolae Titulescu” University, Bucharest, Romania title: Using Appreciative Inquiry to Change Perceptions Concerning the Satisfaction of Organization Members' Needs date: 2012-02-01 words: 7424 flesch: 41 summary: The results of the intervention show that, although appreciative inquiry was directed chiefly towards changing the perceptions concerning the satisfaction of the need for security, the interpretations given by organization members changed with regard to the satisfaction of all needs (security, basic needs, belonging, esteem and self-actualization). The actional models developed in the organization can be found in various forms, due to the different individual interpretations, to the permanent negotiations in the organizational environment and to the constant change of social contexts (Kanaskie, 2011); (5) The transformation of conventions and interpretations into norms, values, purposes and ideologies is the result of dialogue, of the consensus expressed through language (Fitzgerald, Oliver and Hoxsey, 2010); the latter becomes a map preceding the territory; (6) Deep changes in social practices can be generated by changes in linguistic practices (Andrus, 2010); (7) Social theory can be viewed as an elevated 65 language possessing its own grammar; it can be used as a linguistic instrument capable of creating new models of social action (Sandu, 2011); (8) Any theory is normative, irrespective of whether this is intended or not, and it has the potential to influence social order, irrespective of whether people have or do not have reactions of acceptance, rejection or indifference (Aldred, 2011); (9) Every social theory has a moral significance: it has the potential of influencing and regulating interpersonal relations in everyday life (Cojocaru, 2008); (10) Social knowledge resides in collective interaction: it is created, maintained and used by people in interaction (Somerville and Howard, 2010); (11) Constructionism can be applied for introducing change in approaching organizations, communities, or any other form of social organization (Dick, 2011; Aldred, 2011), by going beyond the dualisms of subject-object, true-false, good-evil etc. keywords: appreciative; change; development; inquiry; intervention; members; need; order; organization; satisfaction; security; social; vol cache: tras-45.pdf plain text: tras-45.txt item: #121 of 165 id: tras-450 author: BREZOVNIK, Boštjan; Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Maribor, Maribor, Slovenia,; OPLOTNIK, Žan Jan; Professor, Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Maribor, Maribor, Slovenia; VOJINOVIĆ, Borut; Assistant Professor, Faculty of Tourism, University of Maribor, Maribor, Slovenia title: (De)Centralization of Public Procurement at the Local Level in the EU date: 2015-10-20 words: 7405 flesch: 37 summary: The last reform of public procurement at EU level will defi nitely accelerate the trend of centralization of procurement at the local level, as it will be needed in the EU Member States, since with the reduced infl ow of public funds it will be necessary to design appropriate (economically) effi cient public procurement systems both at the supranational, national and local level. The basic guideline of this reorganization of public procurement systems should be greater effi ciency in public procurement. keywords: authorities; cooperation; countries; decentralization; government; level; member; procurement; public; self; states cache: tras-450.pdf plain text: tras-450.txt item: #122 of 165 id: tras-451 author: BROUCKER, Bruno; Assistant Professor, KU Leuven Public Governance Institute, Leuven, Belgium title: First Things First: Focusing on the Obvious for Better Management and Leadership Development date: 2015-10-20 words: 11947 flesch: 71 summary: 82 6 Pr ep ar ed ne ss to th e pr og ra m Re ad in es s1 .8 03 Be fo re th e pr og ra m s ta rte d, I ha d an id ea a bo ut h ow it c ou ld b e us ef ul fo r m y jo b Re ad in es s4 .7 36 Fr om th e be gi nn in g, I kn ew h ow P UM P wo ul d fi t m y wo rk s itu at io n Re ad in es s3 .7 31 Th e ed uc at io na l g oa ls fro m P UM P we re c le ar fr om th e be gi nn in g Re fl e ct io n_ F4 .7 86 PU M P is a re fl e ct io n fra m ew or k fo r t he fu tu re 0. 69 9 PU M P is a re fl e ct io n fra m ew or k fo r t he fu tu re Ti m e2 .7 38 PU M P is a pr oc es s of m at ur at io n O rg an isa tie in itia tie f4 .3 97 PU M P he lp s to in itia te c ha ng e Re fl e ct io n_ F2 -.7 64 Th e fe de ra l a dm in ist ra tio n ne ed s a pr og ra m a s PU M P to re fl e ct a bo ut th e fu tu re o f t he Be lg ia n pu bl ic se ct or 0. 76 7 Th e ex te nt to w hi ch th e fe de ra l g ov er nm en t n ee ds PU M P Re fl e ct io n_ F1 -.7 09 Th e fe de ra l g ov er nm en t n ee ds th e in sig ht w hi ch is p ro vid ed b y PU M P M an ag er su pp or t1 -.7 06 M y su pe rv iso r w as re ce pt ive fo r e ve ry th in g wh at w as le ar ne d in P UM P 0. 58 1 Su pe rv iso r s up po rt M an ag er sa nc tio ns 2 .6 86 M y su pe rv iso r d id n’ t fi n d a pr og ra m lik e PU M P us ef ul M an ag er su pp or t4 -.6 17 M y su pe rv iso r w as in te re st ed in w ha t I le ar ne d fro m P UM P M an ag er su pp or t5 -.5 97 M y su pe rv iso r e xp ec te d m e to u se th e kn ow le dg e fro m P UM P at a m ax im um M an ag er su pp or t2 -.5 53 M y su pe rv iso r e nc ou ra ge d m e to u se P UM P at a m ax im um M ot iva tio n1 -.4 59 Du rin g th e pr og ra m I al re ad y th ou gh t a bo ut h ow I co ul d us e PU M P in m y wo rk M an ag er sa nc tio ns 1 .4 50 M y su pe rv iso r d id n’ t w an t m e to u se w ha t O rg an iza tio ns d o ha ve a r es po ns ib ilit y to wa rd s th e em pl oy ee af te r t he p ro gr am h as ta ke n pl ac e. Pe er s up po rt Co lle ag ue s sh ou ld b e in fo rm ed a bo ut th e pa rti cip at io n in tr ai ni ng p ro gr am s of ot he r e m pl oy ee s. 68 References: 1. keywords: e m; m p; m y; program; th e; tio; training; transfer cache: tras-451.pdf plain text: tras-451.txt item: #123 of 165 id: tras-452 author: GARCÍA-TABUYO, Manoli; University of Almería, La Cañada, Almería, Spain; SÁEZ-MARTÍN, Alejandro; University of Almería, La Cañada, Almería, Spain; CABA-PÉREZ, Maríadel Carmen; Assistant Professor, Department of Economy and Company, Faculty of Economic and Business Studies, University of Almería, La Cañada, Almería, Spain title: Proactive Transparency Policy in the Mercosur Local Governments: Regulation vs. Self-Regulation date: 2015-10-20 words: 9878 flesch: 46 summary: In summary, despite the lengthy discussion of these regulations, most Mercosur countries have information disclosure policies that are far from being proactive. Table 5: Determinant factors of information disclosure policy TOTAL Prob> chi2 = 0.00 A Prob> chi2 = 0.00 B Prob> chi2 = 0.00 C Prob> chi2 = 0.00 D Prob> chi2 = 0.00 Coeff. keywords: access; corruption; countries; disclosure; government; information; information disclosure; items; law; lmi; mercosur; municipalities; oas; policies; policy; public; transparency; vol cache: tras-452.pdf plain text: tras-452.txt item: #124 of 165 id: tras-453 author: HASSAN, Muhammad Shahid; Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, School of Business and Economics, University of Management and Technology, Lahore, Pakistan; WAJID, Ayesha; Department of Economics, School of Business and Economics, University of Management and Technology, Lahore, Pakistan; MAHMOOD, Haider; Assistant Professor, Department of Management Sciences, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Lahore, Pakistan; SHAHBAZ, Muhammad; Assistant Professor, Department of Management Sciences, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Lahore, Pakistan title: Testing Relevance of Twin Deficit for a Transition Economy Like Pakistan date: 2015-10-20 words: 7654 flesch: 61 summary: The fi ndings of the study reveal that fi scal defi cit signifi cantly accelerates trade defi cit into both long term and short term; hence, it supports the Keynesian Proposition in Pakistan, while a bidirectional causality between fi scal defi cit and trade defi cit into both long term and short term was also observed. cant and positive impact on trade defi cit and argues that fi scal defi cit comes into being due to expansionary fi scal policy which enhances local expenditures or absorption for imports, therefore, the continuous increase in imports will start increasing the trade defi cit. keywords: causality; cits; defi cit; economic; pakistan; relationship; run; scal; scal defi; term; trade defi; twin; vol cache: tras-453.pdf plain text: tras-453.txt item: #125 of 165 id: tras-454 author: ISPAS, Ana; Professor, Transilvania University of Brașov, Romania; CONSTANTIN, Cristinel Petrișor; Associated professor, Transilvania University of Brașov, Romania; CANDREA, Adina Nicoleta; Lecturer, Transilvania University of Brașov, Romania title: An Examination of Visitors’ Interest in Tourist Cards and Cultural Routes in the Case of a Romanian Destination date: 2015-10-20 words: 8137 flesch: 45 summary: Consequently, we consider that the inclusion of a regional cultural route in a city tourist card might be considered an innovative approach aimed at inducing vis- itors to visit cultural tourist att ractions in the areas surrounding urban destinations. 107 Abstract Although tourist cards and cultural routes have been interesting innovations when they were launched on the international tourism mar- ket, they are rarely implemented in Romanian tourism destinations, especially in an integrat- ed manner. keywords: brașov; characteristics; cultural; destination; european; interest; leisure; marketing; model; public; respondents; routes; tourist; tourist cards; travel cache: tras-454.pdf plain text: tras-454.txt item: #126 of 165 id: tras-456 author: PROFIROIU, Constantin Marius; Professor, Faculty of Public Administration and Management, Academy of Economic Sciences, Bucharest, Romania; GASPARINI, Paolo; Professor Emeritus, University of Napoli Federico II, Napoli, Italy, and AMRA Scarl, Napoli, Italy; IVAN, Valentina; Assistant professor, Faculty of Public Administration and Management, Academy of Economic Sciences, Bucharest, Romania title: Uncertainty in the Shale Gas Debate: Views From the Science–Policymaking Interface date: 2015-10-20 words: 8008 flesch: 46 summary: The article concludes that developing a compre- hensive approach based on scientifi c data and an appropriate regulatory framework will provide a path forward for the future development of con- tested policies like shale gas. Keywords: shale gas, uncertainty, access to information, expert elicitation. keywords: data; gas; impact; information; knowledge; policy; public; research; risks; science; scientifi; shale; shale gas; uncertainty; vol cache: tras-456.pdf plain text: tras-456.txt item: #127 of 165 id: tras-458 author: SĂGEATĂ, Radu; Researcher, Institute of Geography, Romanian Academy, Bucharest, Romania title: A Proposal for Romania’s Administrative Organization Based on Functional Relations in the Territory date: 2015-10-20 words: 8025 flesch: 43 summary: Thus, subordina- tion relations at the level of the urban centers determined integration relations at the level of the polarizing territorial structures, which, in turn, generated administrative department and local levels; competition and indiff erence relations produced frag- mentation relations that outlined the limits among regional administrative structures. This process materialized in the inter-war period by the succes- sive formation of macro-regional administrative structures through the aggregation of counties: ministerial directorates (1929-1931) and lands (Rom. ţinuturi) (1938-1940). keywords: administrative; bucharest; centers; counties; county; development; polarizing; regional; regions; relations; romania; sett; structures; săgeată; territory; units; urban; vol cache: tras-458.pdf plain text: tras-458.txt item: #128 of 165 id: tras-459 author: SOOTLA, Georg; Professor of Public Policy, Institute of Political Science and Governance, Tallinn University, Tallinn, Estonia; LAANES, Liia; PhD Candidate, Department of Political and Economic Studies, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland title: Sources of Institutional Integrity and Contradictions of County Governance: Analyzing the Estonian Experience date: 2015-10-20 words: 9828 flesch: 48 summary: County governments were accused of excessive politicization (Kohver, 1928) and debates over abolishment of the county self-govern- ment intensifi ed. County government was considered as a kind of substitute for central government and municipalities in compensating their temporary defi ciencies. keywords: council; county; county governance; county government; county governor; county level; estonia; governance; government; governor; level; municipalities; offi; patt; prefect; self; state cache: tras-459.pdf plain text: tras-459.txt item: #129 of 165 id: tras-46 author: DOROBÃŢ, Iuliana; Assistant Professor, Department of Economic Informatics, Faculty of Cybernetics, Statistics and Economic Informatics, Academy of Economic Studies, Bucharest, Romania; MINA, Laura; Assistant Professor, Department of Administration and Public Management, Faculty of Administration and Public Management, Academy of Economic Studies, Bucharest, Romania; CONSTANTINESCU, Radu; Assistant Professor, Department of Economic Informatics, Faculty of Cybernetics, Statistics and Economic Informatics, Academy of Economic Studies, Bucharest, Romania; PAVEL, Alexandru; PhD Candidate, Public Administration Department, Faculty of Political, Administrative and Communication Sciences, “Babeş- Bolyai” University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania title: Extension of the European Union Services Directive Implementation in Romania date: 2012-02-01 words: 5463 flesch: 41 summary: Keywords: EU Services Directive, public administration reform, e-government, PSC, administrative process, PSC model. When talking about PA reform process in Romania, both academics and practitioners argue the outcomes did not meet the expectations because the changes that have been made either had a top down logic or they were too fragmented and slow. keywords: administration; business; directive; dossier; llc; office; process; public; romania; services; tro cache: tras-46.pdf plain text: tras-46.txt item: #130 of 165 id: tras-460 author: CROITORU, Lucian; Senior Advisor to the Governor of the National Bank of Romania, Bucharest, Romania title: Democracy, Political Competition and Public Debt date: 2015-06-01 words: 7795 flesch: 61 summary: The ab- sence of fi nancial market fl exibility will delay the resumption of relatively fast eco- nomic growth and the cut in unemployment. But, in most cases, these systems run a defi cit and need to be fi nanced with private funds borrowed on fi nancial markets. keywords: debt; economy; gdp; markets; parties; percent; preference; public; right; role; social; spending; time; wing cache: tras-460.pdf plain text: tras-460.txt item: #131 of 165 id: tras-466 author: RUANO, José Manuel; Professor, Department of Political and Administrative Sciences, Faculty of Political Sciences and Sociology, Complutense University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain title: Local Strategic Planning in Spain. A Case Study date: 2015-12-15 words: 6863 flesch: 37 summary: However, the second generation of strategic plans launched from 2000 onward includes other strategic objectives related to citizens’ quality of life and adopts a broader perspective of territory. Table 1: Main areas of interest of local strategic plans in Spain Strategic Plans In fra st ru ct ur es En vi ro nm en t Ec on om ic De ve lo pm en t Q ua lit y of L ife Sp or ts a nd C ul tu re R & D So ci al C oh es io n Ed uc at io n Bilbao keywords: actors; associations; cities; citizens; city; government; objectives; participation; plan; planning; process cache: tras-466.pdf plain text: tras-466.txt item: #132 of 165 id: tras-47 author: HACEK, Miro; Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia title: The Commitment of Senior Civil Servants to Democratic Freedoms and Equality date: 2012-02-01 words: 5809 flesch: 50 summary: Keywords: Slovenia, senior civil servants, politicians, political freedoms and political equality. Also political freedoms and political equality are not absolute but relative dimensions, matters of a degree, and are as such not equally accepted among individuals. keywords: democracy; elites; equality; freedoms; politicians; public; servants; slovenia cache: tras-47.pdf plain text: tras-47.txt item: #133 of 165 id: tras-485 author: MUNTEAN, Ioana; PhD, Department of Sociology, Faculty of Sociology and Social Work, University of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania; PREDA, Marian; Professor, Department of Sociology, Faculty of Sociology and Social Work, University of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania title: Why Does Romania Have a Negative Selection in Parliamentary Elections? An Analysis of the Recruitment and Selection System During the Last Three Legislative Terms date: 2016-06-01 words: 9394 flesch: 51 summary: From 43.6% of law graduates before 1994, plus 12.8% of graduates from foreign universities and 20.5% of graduates from fi rst class universities after 1994, an approximate total of 77%, we now have a percentage of only 29% legal professionals with high quality studies (before 1994 or after, but having graduated from fi rst class or foreign univer- sities), while the rest graduated from low quality universities or did not even mention the universities they graduated from. 0 10 20 30 40 I. Advanced research univ. II. Theoretical perspectives on the recruitment and selection of political party candidates Recruiting and training the parliamentarian elite are aspects specifi c to democracies and one of the functions of the political parties that propose and support candidates. keywords: candidates; deputies; diplomas; education; graduates; mps; party; quality; research; selection; system; term; universities cache: tras-485.pdf plain text: tras-485.txt item: #134 of 165 id: tras-486 author: POP, Cornelia; Professor, PhD, Department of Business, Faculty of Business, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania; GEORGESCU, Maria-Andrada; Associate Professor, PhD, Department of Economics and Public Policies, Faculty of Public Administration, National University of Political Studies and Public Administration, Bucharest, Romania title: Credit Enhancements and the Romanian Municipal Bond Market date: 2016-06-01 words: 10046 flesch: 47 summary: Thus, this alternative is seldom used as municipal bond credit enhancement. Municipal bond fi nancing model: The model of municipal bond fi nancing is based on the direct access to capital market fi nancing through bond issuance. keywords: april; banks; bhr20; bond; bond fi; credit; credit enhancements; debt; development; enhancements; governments; htt; investors; market; municipalities; nancing; public; romania cache: tras-486.pdf plain text: tras-486.txt item: #135 of 165 id: tras-5 author: DEACONU, Adela; Associate Professor, Department of Accounting and Audit, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Babeș- Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania; NISTOR, Cristina Silvia; Associate Professor, Department of Accounting and Audit, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Babeș- Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania title: Valuation in the Public Sector. Reference Factor in a Credible and Fair Administration date: 2014-11-04 words: 8110 flesch: 44 summary: Thus, we ob- serve a greater correlation of public accounting standards with the previous edition of valuation standards, which comprises a more consistent technical guidance, being more useful for valuations conducted for public accounting reporting. 4.2. Public valuation is an accepted and implemented concept in public administration as a condition for ensuring complete, accurate and transparent images of available resources and their use. keywords: accounting; analysis; assets; international; ipsas; ivs; referentials; sector; standards; valuation; value; vol cache: tras-5.pdf plain text: tras-5.txt item: #136 of 165 id: tras-533 author: KLAUSEN, Jan Erling; Associate professor, Ph.D., Department of Political Science, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway; SZMIGIEL-RAWSKA, Katarzyna; Assistant professor, Ph.D., Department of Local Development and Policy, Faculty of Geography and Regional Studies, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland title: The Rabbit and the Tortoise. Climate Change Policy Development on the Local Level in Norway and Poland date: 2017-10-01 words: 10588 flesch: 55 summary: If so, the absence of coercive, hierarchical diffusion mechanisms tends to nullify the differences between these classes of systems, in terms of their potential for local level policy innovation. Local governments in unitary states should, as a consequence, be seen as more than just implementers of central government policies. keywords: adaptation; analysis; berry; change; climate; diffusion; governance; government; innovation; level; local; norway; poland; policies; policy; policy innovation; states; vol cache: tras-533.pdf plain text: tras-533.txt item: #137 of 165 id: tras-534 author: KUBIAK-WÓJCICKA, Katarzyna; Assistant professor, Ph.D., Department of Hydrology and Water Management, Faculty of Earth Sciences, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń, Poland; CHODKOWSKA-MISZCZUK, Justyna; Assistant professor, Ph.D., Department of Urban Studies and Regional Development, Faculty of Earth Sciences, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń, Poland; ROGATKA, Krzysztof; Assistant professor, Ph.D. Eng., Department of Urban Studies and Regional Development, Faculty of Earth Sciences, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń, Poland title: Integration or Disintegration of the Ecological and Urban Functions of the River in the City? A Polish Perspective date: 2017-10-01 words: 7337 flesch: 49 summary: As pointed out by Francis (2012), urban rivers perform crucial ecological and social roles within broader urban systems. The latest trends applied to the studies of river functions in urbanized areas are shown in an interdisciplinary research approach based on the cooperation of spe- 62 cialists in different fields, especially in the scope of urbanization processes and en- vironmental issues (Bunce and Desfor, 2007; Yue, 2012; Francis, 2012; Fumagalli et al., 2013; Dyson and Yokom, 2015). keywords: area; cities; city; development; functions; planning; river; river vistula; toruń; urban; vistula; vol; water; waterfront cache: tras-534.pdf plain text: tras-534.txt item: #138 of 165 id: tras-539 author: de VICENTE LAMA, Marta; Lecturer, Department of Financial Economics and Accounting, Loyola Andalucía University, Córdoba, Spain; CORDOBÉS MADUEÑO, Magdalena; Senior Lecturer, Department of Financial Economics and Accounting, Loyola Andalucía University, Córdoba, Spain; TORRES JIMÉNEZ, Mercedes; Senior Lecturer, Department of Quantitative Methods, Loyola Andalucía University, Córdoba, Spain title: To What Extent Should Public Corporations Be Consolidated? Considering the Effects on Public Deficit and Debt in Spanish Municipalities date: 2017-10-01 words: 7398 flesch: 41 summary: Under the Maastricht Treaty, Member States must comply with specific fiscal discipline rules, particularly those that require states to maintain public account deficits below a threshold of 3% of the GDP benchmark, and public debt lev- els below 60% of GDP. Regarding regional governments or autonomous communities, Fernández-Lle- ra and García-Valiñas (2013) find a significant link between public debt outside the consolidation perimeter of the GGS and the number of public corporations, which suggests that regional governments decentralize to circumvent fiscal rules (the ‘shift effect’). keywords: consolidation; corporations; debt; deficit; ggs; government; local; municipalities; non; perimeter; ratios cache: tras-539.pdf plain text: tras-539.txt item: #139 of 165 id: tras-557 author: CROITORU, Lucian; National Bank of Romania, Bucharest, Romania title: With a permanently pro-cyclical fiscal policy, we could lose democracy and monetary policy date: 2018-06-30 words: 8361 flesch: 47 summary: Keywords: fi scal cynicism, business cycle, pro-cyclical fi scal policy, monetary policy, de- mocracy, political parties. Pro-cyclical fi scal policies increase growth rates in the business cycle upswings and lower them even more to very negative levels in reces- sions. keywords: business; business cycle; cycle; party; phase; policies; policy; recession; scal cache: tras-557.pdf plain text: tras-557.txt item: #140 of 165 id: tras-562 author: ȘANDOR, Sorin Dan; Department of Public Administration and Management, Faculty of Political, Administrative and Communication Sciences, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania title: Measuring public sector innovation date: 2018-06-29 words: 5293 flesch: 46 summary: Katt el et al. (2013) consider that starting from 2000 the literature on public sector innovation intended to move away from the private sector approach but this has been done mostly by adapt- ing it to the public sector realities. The major fi ndings were (European Commission, 2011, p. 8): – At EU level, two-thirds of public administration institutions introduced a new or signifi cantly improved service in the last 3 years before the survey; – The likelihood of service innovation increased linearly with the size of the insti- tutions. keywords: defi; diff; eu27; european; government; innovation; institutions; new; process; public; sector; services cache: tras-562.pdf plain text: tras-562.txt item: #141 of 165 id: tras-569 author: SLIJEPČEVIĆ, Sunčana; PhD, Senior Research Associate, Department for Regional Development, Institute of Economics, Zagreb, Croatia title: The impact of the economic crisis and obstacles to investments at local level date: 2018-10-23 words: 7557 flesch: 46 summary: The recession caused deepening of the imbalance in local government fi nances, as well as widening of the diff erence in their development dynamics (Slijepčević, 2014). The impact of the change in national government’s decisions infl uences local government units differently depending on the level of their fi scal autonomy. keywords: councilors; crisis; croatia; development; european; government; level; regional; revenues; scal; tax; units cache: tras-569.pdf plain text: tras-569.txt item: #142 of 165 id: tras-578 author: CEROVIĆ, Dražen; GASMI, Gordana; PRLJA, Dragan title: THE THORNY ROAD TO PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION REFORM IN MONTENEGRO date: 2018-12-28 words: 7707 flesch: 38 summary: In contrast to many other areas of administrative theory, where analysis is based almost exclusively on business practices, the general analysis of administrative reform is more applicable on public administrative reform. With all the drawbacks and obstacles that the public administration reform in Montenegro faced and is facing, the adoption and implementation of the new Law on Admin- istrative Procedure (2014-2017) opened up prospects that public administration reform to be achieved on Montenegro’s road to full EU mem- bership. keywords: administration reform; administrative; commission; european; government; law; montenegro; procedure; public; public administration; reform; state; strategy cache: tras-578.pdf plain text: tras-578.txt item: #143 of 165 id: tras-579 author: KOSTINA, Svetlana N.; ZAITSEVA, Ekaterina V.; BANNYKH, Galina A. title: STRATIFICATION OF PUBLIC SERVANTS IN THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION AS THE RESULT OF THE PUBLIC SERVICE REFORM: CASE STUDY date: 2018-12-28 words: 7630 flesch: 43 summary: Keywords: public service, public service re- form, public servant, stratification. A rather complex system of public service has emerged in Russia over 25 years of reform. keywords: authorities; employees; federation; level; number; positions; public; russian; russian federation; servants; service; state cache: tras-579.pdf plain text: tras-579.txt item: #144 of 165 id: tras-580 author: NAUMESCU, Valentin title: ADMINISTRATIVE AND POLITICAL PERSPECTIVES OF THE EU’S REFORM: FOCUS ON PERMANENT STRUCTURED COOPERATION date: 2018-12-28 words: 7273 flesch: 51 summary: Keywords: European Union, reform, PES- CO, NATO, security. After the UK accession in 1973, the European Eco- nomic Communities (EEC) followed by the renamed European Union in 1993 became even more unwilling or incapable to forge a European army. keywords: cooperation; council; december; defense; european; european union; member; nato; pesco; policy; public; reform; security; states; union cache: tras-580.pdf plain text: tras-580.txt item: #145 of 165 id: tras-581 author: PITULICE, Ileana Cosmina; PROFIROIU, Alina Georgiana; ȘTEFĂNESCU, Aurelia title: GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTING EDUCATION FOR UNIVERSITY UNDERGRADUATES date: 2018-12-28 words: 7031 flesch: 50 summary: Based on what you have studied so far, how would you appreciate Government Accounting (by referring to private sector accounting studied so far)? The questionnaire-based research conducted in this paper concerns the investigation of future graduates/ accounting professionals’ perception on the following as- pects: public administration sector, government accounting discipline and connection between university curricula and the labor market require- ments. keywords: accounting; administration; companies; curricula; management; opinion; public; sector; students; undergraduate cache: tras-581.pdf plain text: tras-581.txt item: #146 of 165 id: tras-586 author: Cojanu, Valentin; Professor, PhD, Department of International Business and Economics, School of International Business and Economics, Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Bucharest, Romania; Robu, Raluca; Assistant professor, PhD, Department of International Business and Economics, School of International Business and Economics, Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Bucharest, Romania title: The Geography of Territorial Capital in the European Union: a Map and Several Policy Issues date: 2019-02-22 words: 7478 flesch: 44 summary: Source: Authors’ work Figure 1: Distribution of regional territorial capital at EU regional level 32 First, the map reveals one homogeneous grouping represented by almost the en- tire area of the Central and Eastern European countries (CEEC). For example, Lösch noted: ‘Countries and economic regions do not necessarily coincide. keywords: assets; business; capital; cluster; data; development; economies; economy; european; level; location; number; nuts; policy; regional; regions; spain cache: tras-586.pdf plain text: tras-586.txt item: #147 of 165 id: tras-593 author: Hiekischová, Michaela; Lecturer and researcher, Faculty of Social and Economic Studies, Jan Evangelista Purkyně University, Ústí and Labem, Czech Republic title: Policy Alienation Amongemployees of the Labor Office of the Czech Republic date: 2019-06-24 words: 7370 flesch: 47 summary: Policy alienation and its relation to organizational commitment Besides the connection between policy alienation and job satisfaction, we can ex- amine the causal links between policy alienation and organizational commitment. We also assume that there is a relationship be- tween policy alienation and job satisfaction, and between policy alienation and commitment to the aims of the organization. keywords: alienation; commitment; employees; job; policy; policy alienation; powerlessness; public; satisfaction cache: tras-593.pdf plain text: tras-593.txt item: #148 of 165 id: tras-601 author: Wolniak, Radoslaw; Associate professor, Faculty of Organization and Management, Silesian Technical University, Gliwice, Poland; Skotnicka-Zasadzień, Bożena; Assistant professor, Faculty of Organization and Management, Silesian Technical University, Gliwice, Poland; Zasadzień, Michał; Assistant professor, Faculty of Organization and Management, Silesian Technical University, Gliwice, Poland title: Problems of the Functioning of E-Administration in the Silesian Region of Poland from the Perspective of a Person with Disabilities date: 2019-06-24 words: 7733 flesch: 49 summary: In the case of using e-office services, the following variables were taken into con- sideration in the studies (variables were evaluated on a scale from 1 to 7, where 1 corresponds to ‘not important’ and 7 – ‘very important’): – Zu1 – promptness of settling a matter; – Zu2 – possibility of settling a matter without leaving home; – Zu3 – office is open 24 hours a day; – Zu4 – easier access to services for the disabled; – Zu5 – safety; – Zu6 – no queues; – Zu7 – improved communication with the office, and – Zu8 – reduced costs of using the office. Implementation of this kind of e-administration service, e-government, considerably improves the quality of living of residents who use services provided by municipal offices (Betchoo, 2016b). keywords: administration; communication; disability; disabled; functioning; impairment; office; people; poland; public; satisfaction; services; use; variables; vol cache: tras-601.pdf plain text: tras-601.txt item: #149 of 165 id: tras-603 author: Blaga, Oana Maria; Research Assistant, PhD, Department of Public Health, Center for Health Policy and Public Health, College of Political, Administrative and Communication Sciences, Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania; Cherecheș, Răzvan Mircea; Professor, Department of Public Health, Center for Health Policy and Public Health, College of Political, Administrative and Communication Sciences, Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania; Baba, Cătălin Ovidiu; Professor, Department of Public Health, Center for Health Policy and Public Health, College of Political, Administrative and Communication Sciences, Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania title: A Community-Based Intervention for Increasing Access to Health Information in Rural Settings date: 2019-10-29 words: 7408 flesch: 43 summary: Two health workshops were conducted in each of the intervention communities with the scope of increasing health information seeking behavior, build health literacy skills, increase self-effi cacy in seeking health information as well as promoting IRIS. Therefore, self-effi cacy and health literacy should be taken into account when assessing health information seeking behavior and its role in strategies designed to promote public libraries as health information resources for rural inhabitants. keywords: access; cacy; communes; control; df=1; effi; health; health information; intervention; intervention communes; iris; literacy; population; respondents; self; study; university cache: tras-603.pdf plain text: tras-603.txt item: #150 of 165 id: tras-612 author: Panikarova, Svetlana; Professor, PhD, Department of Regional Economics, Innovative Entrepreneurship and Security, Ural Federal University, Ekaterinburg, Russia title: Analysis of the Effectiveness of the Regional Innovation System. A Case Study on Polyethnic Regions of the Russian Federation date: 2019-12-19 words: 8320 flesch: 45 summary: The goal of this study is to develop a systems-based approach to assessing the effectiveness of the institutional structure of regional innovation systems based on a functional cost analysis of innovation development institutions, as well as to identify the factors which determine the quality of regional innovation institutions. Keywords: regional innovation system, in- stitutions, effectiveness, innovation policy, poly- ethnic region. keywords: activity; analysis; development; effectiveness; innovation; innovation development; institutions; regions; republic; ris; systems cache: tras-612.pdf plain text: tras-612.txt item: #151 of 165 id: tras-628 author: Lim, Jae Young; Senior Researcher, Center for Government Competitiveness, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea title: The Determinants of Public Pension Debt in U.S. States date: 2020-06-22 words: 7818 flesch: 57 summary: Despite a growing number of studies researching public pensions, few have ex- amined the factors contributing to public pension debt using the ‘annual change in unfunded public pension ratios’ measure.  e gravity of the pension problems aff ecting state and local governments has led to an increase in research on public pensions. keywords: change; debt; employees; investment; liabilities; management; pension; pension debt; plans; public; ratios; retirement; state; system; t-1; vol cache: tras-628.pdf plain text: tras-628.txt item: #152 of 165 id: tras-635 author: Faludi, Cristina; Assistant professor, Ph.D., M.S.W., B.S.W., Social Work Department, Faculty of Sociology and Social Work, Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania; Neamțu, Nicoleta; Associate professor, Ph.D., M.S.W., B.S.W., Social Work Department, Faculty of Sociology and Social Work, Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania title: Social Work in Romanian Rural Communities: An Inside Perspective from a Qualitative Study date: 2020-10-28 words: 8553 flesch: 49 summary: Rural social work as described in the literature During the last three decades, there has been an active debate in the literature about the specific characteristics of rural social work (RSW). keywords: areas; communes; communities; community; development; field; inhabitants; people; problems; professional; public; romania; services; study; work; workers cache: tras-635.pdf plain text: tras-635.txt item: #153 of 165 id: tras-636 author: Gavriluță, Nicu; Professor, Department of Sociology and Social Work, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, Iași, Romania title: The Labor Market, Employability and Entrepreneurship in the Romanian Public Sector date: 2020-10-28 words: 9883 flesch: 49 summary: What is students’ perception of labor market opportunities and what are their expectations? 4. Public policies for increasing the insertion of higher education graduates in the public sector Our research in the academia and entrepreneurship clearly highlights a joint ef- fort by universities, employers and students to find the best solutions in order to cope with a constantly moving and changing labor market. keywords: career; development; education; employers; expectations; future; graduates; labor; labor market; market; opportunities; people; research; romanian; services; students; training; universities; university cache: tras-636.pdf plain text: tras-636.txt item: #154 of 165 id: tras-638 author: Lajh, Damjan; Associate Professor and Jean Monnet Professor, Ph.D., Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia Head of the Centre for Political Science Research, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia; Novak, Meta; Assistant Professor, Faculty of Social Sciences, Ph.D., University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia Researcher, Centre for Political Science Research, Faculty of Social Sciences,nUniversity of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia title: Formation of National Positions on EU Legislative Proposals in Slovenia: What Role for Civil Society Organizations? date: 2020-10-28 words: 7527 flesch: 41 summary: Some ministries also recognize they are not very famil- iar with EU legislation regarding the different forms of consultation and all would like to participate in training on consultation processes for EU affairs. The article uses varied methodology from secondary analysis of legislation that define the coordination of EU affairs in Slovenia, a survey conducted among national officials at Slovenian ministries working in the area of EU affairs (MZZ, Directorate for EU Affairs), analyses of two Stakeholder meetings (2015a, 2015b) and interviews conducted among national officials that cooperated in the preparation of national positions on the 20 most salient EU directive proposals (www.intereuro.eu; also see Beyers et al., 2014). keywords: affairs; csos; eu affairs; european; government; ministry; national; policy; positions; process; slovenia cache: tras-638.pdf plain text: tras-638.txt item: #155 of 165 id: tras-640 author: Swianiewicz, Paweł; Professor, Department of Local Development and Policy, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland; Brzóska, Agata; Department of Local Development and Policy, University of Warsaw, Poland Research Assistant, Institute of Rural and Agricultural Development, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland title: Demand Elasticity for Local Public Transport in Polish Cities: Do Local Policies Matter? date: 2020-10-28 words: 8343 flesch: 55 summary: And – as has been demonstrated by earlier studies – factors influencing demand for city public transport are sensitive to the context of local culture and economic development. Density of network and frequency of operation Number of vehicle-kilometers per capita Existence of other means of city public transport (than buses, e.g. tram, underground) (binary variable) Note: * E.g. for school students, unemployed or – in extreme cases – public transport free of charge for all citizens. keywords: cities; city; demand; factors; model; number; population; price; services; studies; transport; transport services cache: tras-640.pdf plain text: tras-640.txt item: #156 of 165 id: tras-643 author: Baranowski, Jakub; Research assistant, Research Team for the Organization and Functioning of the Municipal Economy, Faculty of Law and Administration, University of Szczecin, Szczecin, Poland title: Participatory Budget and the Sars-Cov-2 Pandemic in Poland date: 2020-12-01 words: 6593 flesch: 47 summary: In this article, the author attempts to analyze the legal situation of participatory budgets during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic under Polish legisla- tion, at the same time indicating the possibilities of developing this form of civic participation by using, among other things, technologies that enable re- mote communication. The call for participatory budget proposals in Szczecin started on June 1 and ended on July 1, 2020. keywords: budget; budget process; city; civic; participatory; participatory budget; procedure; process; residents; szczecin cache: tras-643.pdf plain text: tras-643.txt item: #157 of 165 id: tras-679 author: György, Attila; Associate professor, Finance Department, Bucharest University of Economic Studies and State Secretary, Ministry of Finance, Bucharest, Romania; Simionescu, Liliana; Associate professor, Finance Department, Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Bucharest, Romania title: The Impact of COVID-19 on the Romanian Hospitals’ Expenses. A Case Study Toward the Financial Resilience after the Pandemic date: 2021-12-16 words: 5854 flesch: 52 summary: Thus, we analyze the impact of COVID-19 over the main categories of expenses of all Romanian hospitals which were designated to officially hospitalize patients with symptomatic COVID-19 and provide treatment for moderate, severe and critical forms of the disease in or- der to explain the variance of hospital expenses, helping to understand how medical sector resilience can be faster and better fulfilled and offer a tool for predictability of expenses. In the third and fourth sections we presented two case studies which highlight the impact of COVID-19 on different variables that explain the variance of hospital expenses using the OLS method with fix effects. keywords: cases; covid-19; expenses; hospitals; impact; materials; number; patients; table; variables cache: tras-679.pdf plain text: tras-679.txt item: #158 of 165 id: tras-680 author: Kotsev, Emil; Associate professor, Department of Business Development and Innovations, Faculty of Business and Management, University of Ruse, Ruse, Bulgaria title: Followership Resilience in Administrative Structures: A New Perspective date: 2021-12-16 words: 7477 flesch: 43 summary: 37 Abstract The study explores followership resilience in three Bulgarian municipalities. Its purpose is twofold: first, to draw the attention of researchers and managers on followership resilience, and second, to explore proactivity and trust as factors of followership re- silience in administrative structures. keywords: decision; employees; followership; followership resilience; journal; leadership; public; research; resilience; study; superiors; trust; vol cache: tras-680.pdf plain text: tras-680.txt item: #159 of 165 id: tras-681 author: Lu, Qicheng; Professor, PhD, Business School of Yunnan University of Finance and Economics, Kunming, Yunnan, China; Rong, Bin; MA candidate, Business School of Yunnan University of Finance and Economics, Kunming, Yunnan, China; Li, Yijia; Associate professor, Information School of Yunnan University of Finance and Economics, Kunming, Yunnan, China title: A Case Study on China’s Policies of Promoting Work Resumption During the COVID-19 Pandemic — Perspective of Policy Resilience date: 2021-12-16 words: 9175 flesch: 53 summary: Among them, policy resilience signifi- cantly helps to improve economic resilience and is the main driving force for healthy and high-quality development of economy and society after the outbreak of the crisis (Ma, Xiao and Yin, 2018, p. 247; Swanson et al., 2010, p. 924). But the research on policy resilience can provide guidance for the government’s effective decision-making. keywords: analysis; china; covid-19; evaluation; government; index; pandemic; pmc; policies; policy; policy resilience; resilience; resumption; social; system; table; vol; words; work; work resumption cache: tras-681.pdf plain text: tras-681.txt item: #160 of 165 id: tras-682 author: Pascariu, Gabriela Carmen; Professor, Centre for Research in International Economic Relations and European Studies, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, Iași, Romania; Iacobuță-Mihăiță, Andreea; Professor, Centre for Research in Economics and Business Communication, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, Iași, Romania; Pintilescu, Carmen; Professor, Department of Accounting, Economic Informatics and Statistics, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, Iași, Romania; Țigănașu, Ramona; Researcher, Centre for European Studies, Faculty of Law, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, Iași, Romania title: Institutional Dynamics and Economic Resilience in Central and Eastern EU Countries. Relevance for Policies date: 2021-12-16 words: 12571 flesch: 53 summary: Our results confirm the influence of institutional factors on economic resilience and, more importantly, it is highlighted that the ‘one size fits all’ principle does not apply in the case of recovery and resilience pro- grams, which is due to the fact that institutions act differently, depending on various socio-economic and political contexts. Consequently, the aim of this paper is to analyze the importance of the institu- tional dimension for economic resilience and to identify the key institutional drivers in the resilience performance for the 11 CEECs (Poland, Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Slovenia and Slovakia). keywords: analysis; coeff; countries; e n; european; growth; institutions; n ia; rate; resilience cache: tras-682.pdf plain text: tras-682.txt item: #161 of 165 id: tras-683 author: Profiroiu, Alina Georgiana; Professor, Ph.D., Department of Administration and Public Management, Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Bucharest, Romania; Nastacă, Corina Cristiana; Teaching assistant, Ph.D., Department of Administration and Public Management, Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Bucharest, Romania; Caraman (Pufleanu), Mirela; Ph.D. Candidate, Management Doctoral School, Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Bucharest, Romania title: Perceptions on the Implementation of the Integrated Territorial Investment Mechanism (ITI) and Its Impact on Sustainable Development and Resilience of Danube Delta date: 2021-12-16 words: 8448 flesch: 39 summary: The comparative analysis between the managers’ and the beneficiaries’ perception regarding the main problems encountered in the implementa- tion process and the impact of ITI Danube Delta mechanism on the so- cio-economic development of the territory In order to investigate the impact of the projects implemented through the ITI mechanism, the respondents were presented eight areas, being asked to choose to what extent the projects implemented through the ITI Danube Delta mechanism had 118 an impact on the development of the mentioned areas, on a scale from 1 to 5, where 1– meant to the smallest extent, 2– to a small extent, 3– to a medium extent, 4– to a high extent, and 5– representing that the ITI mechanism influenced the mentioned areas to the highest extent. The hypothesis did not validate considering that the level of significance was higher than 0.05 in all cases, which meant that there were Table 7: Comparison of perceptions on the contribution of the implementation of ITI Danube Delta mechanism on the European funds’ management Answer variants Fund managers Beneficiaries Differences Specific conditions from the applicants’ guides (V1) 4.3 4.08 -0.22 Available financial allocation (V2) 4 4.01 0.01 Submitting the financing requests and reporting projects’ progress (V3) 2.8 2.85 0.05 keywords: beneficiaries; danube delta; delta; development; impact; implementation; iti; iti danube; iti mechanism; respondents; territory cache: tras-683.pdf plain text: tras-683.txt item: #162 of 165 id: tras-7 author: DEŽELAN, Tomaz; Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia; MAKSUTI, Alem; Ph.D. candidate, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia title: Towards our Common Future: Comparative Assessment of the Sustainable Development Strategies of the European Union, the Mediterranean and Slovenia date: 2014-11-04 words: 8844 flesch: 36 summary: Sustainable development strategies are in effect visions of ‘a way to achieve a sus- tainable society’ since they present a ‘coordinated, participatory and iterative process of thoughts and actions to achieve economic, environmental and social objectives in a balanced and integrative manner’ (Meadowcroft, 2007, p. 154). Our scrutiny focuses on sustainable development strategies that serve as standardised artefacts (Wolff, 2004, p. 284) and that can be legitimately used to make assumptions about the intentions and ideas of their creators and the sustainable development regime they represent. keywords: assessment; development; development strategy; economic; environmental; european; implementation; mediterranean; national; planning; sds; strategies; strategy cache: tras-7.pdf plain text: tras-7.txt item: #163 of 165 id: tras-91 author: Friederike BUNDSCHUH-RIESENEDER, Friederike; Dr., Institute for Public Science, Law Faculty, University of Innsbruck, Austria title: Good Governance: Characteristics, Methods and the Austrian Examples date: 2008-10-01 words: 11223 flesch: 39 summary: These goals contradict each other as do public reforms themselves. These goals contradict each other as do public reforms themselves. keywords: act; administration; austria; citizens; european; governance; government; information; law; management; means; new; procedures; process; public; reengineering; reform; sector; services; society cache: tras-91.pdf plain text: tras-91.txt item: #164 of 165 id: tras-92 author: RADU, Cristian; Lecturer, Communication and Public Relations Department, Faculty of Political, Administrative and Communication Sciences, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania title: Instituţia Ombudsmanului: Justiţie Alternativă? (The Ombudsman Institution: Alternative Justice?) date: 2012-06-01 words: 1778 flesch: 36 summary: The causes of this situation are given by the interference areas between the competence spheres of public administration, judicial institutions and Ombudsman, specifically – the insufficient distinction between appeal and complaint as forms of citizen’s reaction against some actions of the state. The volume edited by Dacian-Cosmin Dragoş and Bog- dana Neamţu is welcomed in the area of scientific literature regarding the complex issues surrounding the institution of the Ombudsman. keywords: institution; ombudsman; order; way cache: tras-92.pdf plain text: tras-92.txt item: #165 of 165 id: tras-93 author: HAJNAL, György; Department of Public Policy and Management, Faculty of Economics, Corvinus University, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Center for Social Sciences, Budapest, Hungary; JENEI, György; Professor, Department of Public Policy and Management, Faculty of Economics, Corvinus University, Budapest, Hungary title: The Fifth Trans-European Dialogue in Public Administration Budapest, 1-3 February, 2012 date: 2012-06-01 words: 1382 flesch: 45 summary: Politicians may also decide who is appointed as CEO and/or member(s) of the board; political appointments are of course the ultimate way to influence agency functioning on a daily basis. Moreover, many agency tasks are inherently political because they involve the implementation of policies, decisions about allocation or distribution of scarce resources, and delivery of goods/services to citizens/voters. keywords: administration; agencies; public; ted5 cache: tras-93.pdf plain text: tras-93.txt