Lobbying and Social Participation – Key Features for an Effective Public Administration in Romania

<p>Lobbying is one of the main structural elements of democratic governance and sustainable development and is essential to achieving competitive and effi cient administrative and decisional processes in local governance. Successfully implementing lobbying regulations and techniques is of extr...

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Main Author: Laura Maria IRIMIEȘ
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca 2017-12-01
Series:Transylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences
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Online Access:https://rtsa.ro/tras/index.php/tras/article/view/543
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description <p>Lobbying is one of the main structural elements of democratic governance and sustainable development and is essential to achieving competitive and effi cient administrative and decisional processes in local governance. Successfully implementing lobbying regulations and techniques is of extreme importance for any public system, where social participation in the decision-making process can strongly contribute to social, political and economic / fi nancial effi - ciency. Over the last 15 years, several legislative initiatives have tried to design a coherent framework for lobby, but they are still unapplied either due to insuffi cient public understanding of the concept, or due to more or less justifi ed uncertainties and fears. The necessity of regulating lobbying in Romania is placed in a context where an important number of anticorruption international and domestic recommendations and state reliability statistics, added to a certain lack of effectiveness in time and public money management, show that the public administration system needs to be reformed. And lobbying is, as the following article shows, a must for any public reform of public administration in Romania. The case of multilingual entrance signs / labels in Cluj-Napoca is an unquestionable and unbeatable example that the simple existence of legal frameworks of lobbying could turn into real time, energy and money savers.</p>
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spelling doaj.art-089dfca5c47c4c1fb8119233ef5750ad2024-03-14T07:28:37ZengBabes-Bolyai University, Cluj-NapocaTransylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences1842-28452017-12-0113SI577310.24193/tras.SI2017.4560Lobbying and Social Participation – Key Features for an Effective Public Administration in RomaniaLaura Maria IRIMIEȘ0Lecturer, PhD Department of Journalism, Faculty of Political, Administrative and Communication Sciences, Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania<p>Lobbying is one of the main structural elements of democratic governance and sustainable development and is essential to achieving competitive and effi cient administrative and decisional processes in local governance. Successfully implementing lobbying regulations and techniques is of extreme importance for any public system, where social participation in the decision-making process can strongly contribute to social, political and economic / fi nancial effi - ciency. Over the last 15 years, several legislative initiatives have tried to design a coherent framework for lobby, but they are still unapplied either due to insuffi cient public understanding of the concept, or due to more or less justifi ed uncertainties and fears. The necessity of regulating lobbying in Romania is placed in a context where an important number of anticorruption international and domestic recommendations and state reliability statistics, added to a certain lack of effectiveness in time and public money management, show that the public administration system needs to be reformed. And lobbying is, as the following article shows, a must for any public reform of public administration in Romania. The case of multilingual entrance signs / labels in Cluj-Napoca is an unquestionable and unbeatable example that the simple existence of legal frameworks of lobbying could turn into real time, energy and money savers.</p>https://rtsa.ro/tras/index.php/tras/article/view/543lobbying, public policy, decision making, social participation, good governance, democracy, minority rights.
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Lobbying and Social Participation – Key Features for an Effective Public Administration in Romania
Transylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences
lobbying, public policy, decision making, social participation, good governance, democracy, minority rights.
title Lobbying and Social Participation – Key Features for an Effective Public Administration in Romania
title_full Lobbying and Social Participation – Key Features for an Effective Public Administration in Romania
title_fullStr Lobbying and Social Participation – Key Features for an Effective Public Administration in Romania
title_full_unstemmed Lobbying and Social Participation – Key Features for an Effective Public Administration in Romania
title_short Lobbying and Social Participation – Key Features for an Effective Public Administration in Romania
title_sort lobbying and social participation key features for an effective public administration in romania
topic lobbying, public policy, decision making, social participation, good governance, democracy, minority rights.
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