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"The Role of the Leader in the Integral System of Ethics Management in Municipalities" Transylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences (IF 0.892) Pub Date : 2022-02-25 Rita TOLEIKIENĖ,Diana ŠAPARNIENĖ,Włodzimierz SROKA,Vita JUKNEVIČIENĖ
"Seeking good governance at local self-government, ethics management is a significant function in a public administration organization, in line with transparency, accountability, responsibility, openness and efficiency. Leadership is a key factor in driving organization towards ethical culture. Given this fact, the aim of this article is to disclose the role of leaders of the municipality in the formation
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"Are Employment Policies Set Up Effectively? Case Study of Selected EU Countries and Slovakia" Transylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences (IF 0.892) Pub Date : 2022-02-25 Peter PISÁR,Alexandra MERTINKOVÁ
"Although there is a consensus on the need for an active employment policy, there are still differences in opinion on which tools should be used to achieve employment policy objectives. The aim of the paper is to examine whether the instruments of active employment policy in the EU countries using the LMP database have been effectively set up, as there is a clear difference in the allocation of public
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"Romanian Commitment to Independence of Justice and Anticorruption Reforms under CVM and Rule of Law Incentives. Some Considerations on Case-Law of the Constitutional Court" Transylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences (IF 0.892) Pub Date : 2022-02-25 Cynthia Carmen CURT
"During 2017-2019 Romania faced a controversial justice laws’ ‘reform’, undermining the rule of law and independence of justice principles, challenging the commitments established under Commission Decision 2006/928/EC in the areas of judicial reform and the fight against corruption. In the context of democratic backsliding in Central and Eastern Europe, Romanian evolutions could be seen as following
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Climate Change (Policy) Skepticism: Policy Performance Risk and Support for Fossil Fuel Taxation among Europeans Transylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences (IF 0.892) Pub Date : 2022-02-25 Jesse W. CAMPBELL
"Concern about climate change does not translate unconditionally into support for policy action, and some citizens are skeptical that (costly) public policies will address climate change effectively. I argue that risks to policy performance at the country level attenuate the link between climate change concern and support for policy action. Using a large sample of public opinion data from residents
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Who is the Prefect? A Comparative Analysis of the Professionalization and Politicization of the Prefect in Romania and Poland in 2021 Transylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences (IF 0.892) Pub Date : 2022-02-25 Constantin Marius PROFIROIU,Ionuț Ciprian NEGOIȚĂ
"This present research brings into focus the figure of the prefect and wojewód seen at the crossroads between career public servants representing the interests of the Government and political agents, appointed and dismissed at the whim of the Prime Minister. This paper approaches the issue of the holder of the prefect’s office in Romania and Poland employing a prosopographic analysis and applies a
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"Transformational, Transactional Leadership, and Perceptions of Organizational Performance: The Moderating Role of Relational Authenticity as a Leader" Transylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences (IF 0.892) Pub Date : 2022-02-25 Min-Hyu KIM
"This study examines whether relational authenticity as a leader, a relatively new concept in the nonprofit literature, moderates the relationship between transformational, transactional leadership, and perceptions of organizational performance. Using an online survey experiment of executive directors at 403 nonprofit organizations, this study tests the hypothesis of the positive–negative asymmetry
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"Public Administration Digitalization and Corruption in the EU Member States. A Comparative and Correlative Research Analysis" Transylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences (IF 0.892) Pub Date : 2022-02-25 Armenia ANDRONICEANU,Irina GEORGESCU,Jani KINNUNEN
"Effective digitalization of public administrations and economies requires rethinking of how e-government and digital services with increasing e-participation can support corruption reduction and social development. This paper aims to study the interdependencies and differences between the multidimensional phenomena of administrative corruption and digitalization in the EU member states. The research
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Perceptions on the Implementation of the Integrated Territorial Investment Mechanism (ITI) and Its Impact on Sustainable Development and Resilience of Danube Delta Transylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences (IF 0.892) Pub Date : 2021-12-15 Alina Georgiana PROFIROIU,Corina-Cristiana NASTACĂ,Mirela CARAMAN PUFLEANU
The Integrated Territorial Investment mechanism (ITI) was implemented in Romania to the territory of ITI Danube Delta in the 2014-2020 programming period. In this respect, the present article aims to analyze the process of implementation of the ITI mechanism on the Danube Delta territory in order to find out the impact of its implementation on the socio-economic development of the area and on its
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Institutional Dynamics and Economic Resilience in Central and Eastern EU Countries. Relevance for Policies Transylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences (IF 0.892) Pub Date : 2021-12-15 Gabriela-Carmen PASCARIU,Andreea IACOBUȚĂ-MIHĂIȚĂ,Carmen PINTILESCU,Ramona ȚIGĂNAȘU
In the global context generated by the 2008-2009 economic crisis and by the current COVID-19 pandemic, the analysis of the way in which territories can resist, return and adapt to shocks has become a priority for resilience-based policies. The paper aims to investigate the role of institutions in economic resilience, in the particular case of Central and Eastern European countries since, despite
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The Dark Side of Resilient Leaders: Vampire Leadership Transylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences (IF 0.892) Pub Date : 2021-12-15 Montgomery VAN WART,Shafiqur RAHMAN,Theo MAZUMDAR
While ‘bad’ leaders can include incompetent, occasionally self-indulgent, and lazy leaders, an important special category of leader has long been established in the literature for those whose egotism and ill-will toward others have corrupted ‘good’ leadership norms. Such behavior is generally called toxic. This essay further builds on that analysis by examining leaders who are not simply occasionally
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Resilient Leadership. Qualitative Study on Factors Influencing Organizational Resilience and Adaptive Response to Adversity Transylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences (IF 0.892) Pub Date : 2021-12-15 Tudor ȚICLĂU,Cristina HINȚEA,Constantin TROFIN
Given the turbulent environment that governments and citizens across the globe faced in the last two years (due to the COVID-19 pandemic), one concept seems to stand out as extremely valuable in this context: resilience. Resilience, understood as the capacity of a system to bounce back from adversity, becomes a key component in the equation of post-pandemic evolution and recovery. Resilient leadership
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Followership Resilience in Administrative Structures: A New Perspective Transylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences (IF 0.892) Pub Date : 2021-12-15 Emil KOTSEV
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 resilience in administrative structures. The study is based on a qualitative approach, and uses a combination of two research strategies – exploratory
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The Impact of COVID-19 on the Romanian Hospitals’ Expenses. A Case Study Toward the Financial Resilience after the Pandemic Transylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences (IF 0.892) Pub Date : 2021-12-15 Attila GYÖRGY,Liliana SIMIONESCU
The Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) affected almost all activities worldwide. The medical sector was one of those which were most significantly impacted because the medical infrastructure was not sized for such a high scale shock, specialized human resources and medical infrastructure proving to be much undersized and with slow growth potential. Many changes were required, important financial
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Analysis of Brownfields Sites in the Villages and Towns in the Czech Republic Transylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences (IF 0.892) Pub Date : 2021-10-15 Jaroslav ŠKRABAL,Kamila TUREČKOVÁ,Jan NEVIMA
The issue associated with the situation of brownfields around the world is a very current topic today. This article focuses on the situation of the existence of brownfields in the Czech Republic. The aim of this article is to assess the current situation of brownfields from the perspective of municipalities and cities in the Czech Republic. The data in the paper were collected by means of a questionnaire
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A Content Analysis of Public Policy Design and Implementation in Slovenia: Weighing Strategic and Normative Factors Transylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences (IF 0.892) Pub Date : 2021-10-15 Žiga KOTNIK,Dalibor STANIMIROVIĆ
"Policy processes are complex systems and require an in-depth and comprehensive analysis. Especially, factors that affect public policy design and implementation, as two important stages of the public policy cycle, have not been sufficiently explored. The aim of the paper is to analyze the relationship between two critical factors that influence the design and implementation of public policies in the
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Budgetary Participation in Public Sectors: A Focus on Vietnam Transylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences (IF 0.892) Pub Date : 2021-10-15 Quang-Huy NGO
Due to the lack of insight into the impact of budgeting practices at the micro-levels in emerging countries in Asia, this study examines the effect of budgetary participation on managerial performance in Vietnam. Drawing from the framework of decision-making, nomological network, and self-determination theory, this study proposes that the link between budgetary participation and managerial performance
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Municipal Fragmentation and Local Financial Condition Transylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences (IF 0.892) Pub Date : 2021-10-15 HyungGun PARK
A sizeable literature investigates how intergovernmental competition affects various fiscal outcomes in a fragmented local landscape. However, it remains untested how the fragmentation affects the outcomes simultaneously. This study addresses the issue by condensing individual outcomes into a multifaceted concept of financial condition. Utilizing a pooled cross-sectional time-series approach on the
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Do Individual Perceptions of Organizational Culture Moderate the TFL-Helping Behavior and the TFL-Performance Linkages? Evidence from a Korean Public Employee Survey Transylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences (IF 0.892) Pub Date : 2021-10-15 Jae Young LIM,Kuk-Kyoung MOON,Harin WOO
Among the many potential organizational contexts, this study focuses on organizational culture, as it is critical for transformational leadership (TFL) behaviors to percolate into individual employees. Particularly, the study relies on the Competing Values Framework developed by Quinn and his colleagues. Relying on a Korean survey of central and local government employees, the study explores whether
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Public-Private Arbitration in Romanian Law Transylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences (IF 0.892) Pub Date : 2021-10-15 Daniela CÎMPEAN,Roxana VORNICU,Dacian C. DRAGOȘ
The article endeavors to introduce the constitutional and statutory framework for arbitration in Romania, whilst discussing the dilemmatic legislative provisions allowing for public entities to become parties in an arbitration dispute. It includes a discussion of the concept of administrative contracts in Romania and a chronological analysis of the evolution of public-private arbitration under administrative
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The Effects of Fiscal Decentralization on General and Local Government Size: Does Composite Index Matter? Transylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences (IF 0.892) Pub Date : 2021-10-15 Ebru CANIKALP,Taner TURAN,İlter ÜNLÜKAPLAN
This article examines the impact of fiscal decentralization on the size of both general and local government using data for 36 countries over the period 1972–2019 and GMM. Our results consistently suggest that fiscal decentralization does not exert a significant impact on general government size. On the other hand, there exists a positive relationship between fiscal decentralization and local government
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Manager’s Role and Performance Information Use: Evidence from US Federal Agencies Transylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences (IF 0.892) Pub Date : 2021-10-14 Eunjin HWANG
This article explores the relationship between performance information use for different functions based on two of Moynihan’s analyses and a managerial perspective, utilizing passive and purposeful use. The results of this study suggest that both accountability and managers’ proximity to the performance system exert strong influence on the use of performance information in the public sector. In terms
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"THE DETERMINANTS OF THE MUNICIPAL BONDS MARKET IN ROMANIA" Transylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences (IF 0.892) Pub Date : 2021-06-30 Adriana TIRON-TUDOR,Cristina Alexandrina ȘTEFĂNESCU,Anamaria DAN
"Municipal bonds are widely issued by local municipalities as a feasible financial alternative to fund infrastructure projects. On the other side, from the investors’ perspective, bonds issued by municipalities have historically been a popular investment option due to often favorable tax treatment for investors as well as the issuer’s credibility and generally high credit quality of the market.The
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"REVISITING CROWDING-OUT EFFECT OF PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT: ITS IMPACT ON EXTRINSIC AND INTRINSIC MOTIVATION" Transylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences (IF 0.892) Pub Date : 2021-06-30 Hyung-Woo LEE
Scholars have believed that motivation crowding out will occur when performance-based personnel management is practiced in the public sector. However, drawing on a more sophisticated typology of human motivation, this study demonstrates that the provision of extrinsic rewards can motivate, rather than demotivate, public employees even if public employees have strong public service motivation. Analyzing
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"TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERSHIP AND ITS IMPACT ON EMPLOYEE PERFORMANCE: FOCUS ON PUBLIC EMPLOYEES IN AFGHANISTAN" Transylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences (IF 0.892) Pub Date : 2021-06-30 Seyawash FEROZI,Yongjin CHANG
"This study examines the relationship between transformational leadership and employee performance based on a survey conducted on 150 employees in low and middle level management positions in the Ministry of Public Works in Kabul, Afghanistan. The survey questionnaire consisted of questions about employee performance, transformational leadership (6 dimensions), pay satisfaction, job security, and demographic
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"ENGAGING WITH THE BENEFICIARIES IN REFORMING HEALTH CARE. A CASE STUDY OF PATIENT INVOLVEMENT IN THE REFORM OF PSYCHIATRIC CARE IN THE CZECH REPUBLIC" Transylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences (IF 0.892) Pub Date : 2021-06-30 Karolína DOBIÁŠOVÁ,Miriam KOTRUSOVÁ,Magdalena WOLFOVÁ
"The involvement of patients and their families in healthcare policymaking has been a general trend in recent years. This tendency can be observed also in the process of the current reform of psychiatric care in the Czech Republic, which should gradually shift the focus of psychiatric care from large facilities to community care. Organizations representing patients and their families are among the
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"THE CONGRUENCE EFFECTS OF CONFUCIAN AND WESTERN MANAGEMENT VALUES ON INDIVIDUAL AND ORGANIZATIONAL PERFORMANCE: EVIDENCE FROM THE KOREAN PUBLIC SECTOR" Transylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences (IF 0.892) Pub Date : 2021-06-30 Min Young KIM,Ador R. TORNEO
"This study examines the effect on Korean public employees’ in-role performance and organizational performance of Confucian values and of two organizational management values developed in the West, specifically collective public service motivation-oriented (PSMO) management values and entrepreneurship-oriented (EO) management values.Using data from the Public Sector Entrepreneurship Survey the study
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"CLUSTERING TAX ADMINISTRATIONS IN EUROPEAN UNION MEMBER STATES" Transylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences (IF 0.892) Pub Date : 2021-06-30 Daniela PÎRVU,Amalia DUŢU,Carmen Mihaela MOGOIU
"The European Union Member States use different organizational and functional models of tax administration that could determine better or worse performances. This paper analyzes the way of organization and operation of tax administrations in EuropeanUnion Member States from the perspective of the 21 variables obtained based on the information made available on the OECD’s Tax Administration Comparative
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"TRUST IN PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS AND COMPLIANCE WITH MEASURES AGAINST COVID-19 PANDEMIC. CASE STUDY ON METROPOLITAN AREA OF CLUJ, ROMANIA" Transylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences (IF 0.892) Pub Date : 2021-06-30 Bianca RADU
The goal of this article is to analyze the level of citizens’ trust in different public institutions during the second wave of COVID-19 pandemic, and the influence of citizens’ trust on their compliance with the measures adopted to prevent the spread of the virus. The research was conducted between November and December 2020 on a sample of 700 residents of Metropolitan Area of Cluj, Romania. During
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DIASPORA START-UP PROGRAMS AND CREATIVE INDUSTRIES: EVIDENCE FROM ROMANIA Transylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences (IF 0.892) Pub Date : 2021-06-30 Alin CROITORU
Romania is one of the main countries of origin for intra-European migration. The national authorities recently implemented the first major program —Diaspora Start-up—to support the business initiatives of Romanian citizens who live abroad and who are interested in opening a business in their home country. This scheme was developed in parallel with a broader program—Romania Start-up Plus—which was designed
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"SEEKING PERFORMANCE-BASED ACCOUNTABILITY IN ITALIAN PUBLIC HEALTHCARE ORGANIZATIONS" Transylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences (IF 0.892) Pub Date : 2021-06-30 Domenico RAUCCI,Tomasz DYCZKOWSKI,Stefano AGOSTINONE
"Using content and cluster analysis and considering a time span of five years, this study examines the adoption and compliance level of Performance-Based Accountability (PBA) in the Italian Local Healthcare Authorities (LHAs) under the LegislativeDecree no. 150/2009. The results showed a barely sufficient level of PBA compliance. Higher levels of citizen involvement in PBA processes, the commitment
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Universities as ‘Drivers’ of Local and Regional Development Transylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences (IF 0.892) Pub Date : 2021-02-25 Marius Constantin PROFIROIU,Maria-Roxana BRIȘCARIU
"The society based on knowledge and innovation brings to the fore the role of universities as research and learning spaces, with the purpose for sustainable development, at local, regional, national and global levels. Following this approach, we explore the capacity of spreading the knowledge and innovation capital in the North-West region of Romania between universities, the private sector and the
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Efficiency of Public Procurement in the Czech and Slovak Health Care Sectors Transylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences (IF 0.892) Pub Date : 2021-02-25 Juraj NEMEC,Matúš KUBÁK,Gleb DONIN,Zuzana KOTHEROVÁ
Health systems in most (if not all) countries perpetually struggle with financial problems and search for resources to cover health care needs. Increased efficiency of health procurement has the potential to save a lot of money and to reallocate them to treatments. The aim of our study is to analyze technical efficiency (efficiency/economy dimension) and allocation efficiency (effectiveness) of public
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Study of the Transformation of Industrial Heritage from the Perspective of Holistic Governance Transylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences (IF 0.892) Pub Date : 2021-02-25 Zhang HUA,Liu YANING,Jilong WANG
In the past few years, with the development of technology and industrial upgrading, a growing number of countries are facing the problem of how to transform their industrial heritages, especially if they are in downtowns. Public administration top managers have a main role in this complex process of purpose and ownership changes. By examining the transformation of industrial heritage in Shanghai –
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Territorial Innovation Patterns in Romania. Future Pathways for Smart Specialization Transylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences (IF 0.892) Pub Date : 2021-02-25 Cristina ȘERBĂNICĂ
"This study examines the territorial patterns of innovation in Romania, a country labelled as ‘modest innovator’. Our main assumption is that the large heterogeneity in the sub-national innovation patterns is not captured in the typologies developed for the NUTS2 regions. Consequently, the study proposes a categorization of the Romanian NUTS3 counties according to their innovation performance and structural
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Cluj-Napoca without Students: An Estimation of the Gapi in the City’s Economy Transylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences (IF 0.892) Pub Date : 2021-02-25 Andrei CHIRCĂ,Dan Tudor LAZĂR
In the new context of COVID-19, the authors assess the economic gap of the absence of students from Cluj-Napoca for one month due to the pandemic quarantine and isolation. The economic gap is presented in terms of estimated expenditures that did not occur, on an average monthly basis. The estimations are based on the survey data carried among Babeș-Bolyai University students that assessed its students’
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Collaborative Governance Regimes in Illiberal Democracies: A Comparative Case of Drug Harm Reduction Policy in Central-Eastern Europe Transylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences (IF 0.892) Pub Date : 2021-02-25 György HAJNAL,Iga JEZIORSKA
Collaborative governance research and practice seem underdeveloped in Central-Eastern Europe compared to its Western counterpart. Recently, one can also observe a turn from liberal values in CEE. Taking states’ important role in shaping collaborative governance as a starting point, this paper includes a theoretical ambition of developing a classification of collaborative governance regimes. Furthermore
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Public Measures to Deal with the Negative Effects of Intra-EU Migration. Case Study: Suceava County, Romania Transylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences (IF 0.892) Pub Date : 2021-02-25 Delia Cristina BALABAN,Viviana HUȚULEAC
"AbstractRomania is one of the EU member states reported to have a high rate of intra-EU migration. There is a temporary labor migration, but also Romanian migrants decide to leave their country for good. This phenomenon has a large economic, cultural, and social impact on society, with the northeastern region of Romania being especially affected. The main objectives of the present research are: (1)
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Urban Regeneration and Changes Driven by Tourism and the ‘Skopje 2014’ Project Transylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences (IF 0.892) Pub Date : 2021-02-25 Dejan ILIEV
The current paper explores the relationship between urban regeneration, tourism and culture, and offers a common approach that each of these three concepts can bring. The paper proposes and develops a new and integrated conceptual analytical framework. The analysis uses the example of the capital Skopje, which provides a suitable framework for interpreting the process. The study uses combined research
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Whether and How Does the Crisis-Induced Situation Change E-Leadership in the Public Sector? Evidence from Lithuanian Public Administration Transylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences (IF 0.892) Pub Date : 2020-11-23 Rita TOLEIKIENĖ,Irma RYBNIKOVA,Vita JUKNEVIČIENĖ
In the course of the pandemic, the remote working and e-leading (leading through information and communication technologies) have also become the usual mode in public administrations, yet research on their consequences for employees in the public sector remains scarce. The aim of this article is to reveal what challenges and tensions emerge in relation to e-leadership in Lithuanian municipal administrations
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Participatory Budget and the SARS-COV-2 Pandemic in Poland Transylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences (IF 0.892) Pub Date : 2020-11-23 Jakub BARANOWSKI
The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has affected almost every aspect of social life. Public authorities are trying to combat the effects of the pandemic by introducing specific legal regulations. Even though the Polish legislature has established a number of regulations to combat the epidemiological threat, they have not regulated the participatory budget process. The obligation to establish it, especially in
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"COVID-19: Network Effectiveness of Intermunicipal Self-Organized Response in Chile" Transylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences (IF 0.892) Pub Date : 2020-11-23 Karina ARIAS YURISCH,Karina RETAMAL SOTO,Camila RAMOS FUENZALIDA
In the context of the Covid-19 pandemic, public officials are called on to implement different strategies in order to respond effectively. One of the lessons of emergency management research is that effective response is unlikely without collaboration. Research on collaborative emergency management has focused on measuring the effectiveness of intergovernmental and intersectoral relationships, but
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Rule of Law in Tough Times – A Case Study on the Romanian Sanctioning Policy During the COVID-19 Pandemic Transylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences (IF 0.892) Pub Date : 2020-11-23 Laura ȘTEFAN,Cezara GRAMA
The COVID-19 pandemic was a genuine stress test for societies around the globe. Societal values were put under public scrutiny, while fear reigned supreme allowing large margins of maneuver for governments in taking restrictive measures promising at least to win some time for health systems to adapt to the new challenges. Along with health systems governments, judicial systems and societies at large
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COVID-19 Incidence in Europe: Drivers and Government Interventions Transylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences (IF 0.892) Pub Date : 2020-11-23 Dan LUPU,Liviu-George MAHA,Elena-Daniela VIORICĂ
"This study aims to identify the determinant country-level factors that impact the trend of registered death cases from the recently emerged infectious disease COVID-19, analyzing data from March 2020 to July 2020, for 40 European countries. We use four categories of indicators covering major areas of influence: health, demographic, economic, and societal/cultural indicators. We reduce the dimensionality
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The COVID-19 Emergency in European Public Health: An Evaluation of Measures in the Transition from Healthcare Services to Healthcare Profiling Transylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences (IF 0.892) Pub Date : 2020-11-23 Ubaldo COMITE
The healthcare system is at the centre of great attention, having to demonstrate the adequate use of constantly decreasing available resources against a growing healthcare demand. In this context, the diseases characterized by the length of the healthcare assistance plan and high complexities in terms of treatments and complications must be considered. The above may refer to the healthcare emergency
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About the Fair Balance of Competing Rights in the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic Transylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences (IF 0.892) Pub Date : 2020-11-23 Georgeta Bianca SPÎRCHEZ,Nicolae BÂRSAN-PIPU
The current pandemic situation gives us the opportunity of the following research, which is a plea to use the principle of proportionality as a rational argument in substantiating the restrictive measures adopted by the authorities in order to prevent the spread of Sars-CoV-2 virus. Thus, after (1) we found it appropriate to make general considerations related to governmental measures for public health
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Post-Pandemic City: Historical Context for New Urban Design Transylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences (IF 0.892) Pub Date : 2020-11-23 Veaceslav MIR
Cities have been almost completely unprepared for the COVID-19 pandemic. Urban history has known many epidemics and pandemics, and there are clear historical parallels between the 13th and 19th century plague pandemics and cholera epidemics and the 21th century COVID-19 pandemic, from an administrative point of view. However, the cities’ public administration did not take into account the experience
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Resilience in Times of Pandemic: Is the Public Procurement Legal Framework Fit for Purpose? Transylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences (IF 0.892) Pub Date : 2020-11-23 Laura-Alexandra FARCA,Dacian C. DRAGOŞ
"This article aims to analyze whether the legislation enacted in the field of public procurement in Romania, based on the 2014 EU Directives, is effective in fostering resilience of the public institutions and indirectly of communities, and toprovide a fit-for-purpose mechanism for dealing with the pandemic generated by the new type of coronavirus, Sars-CoV-2. The article discusses the necessity of
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Time Capital in Strategic Planning and Sustainable Management Transylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences (IF 0.892) Pub Date : 2020-10-28 Marian Preda,Ștefania Matei
In this paper we propose an emerging vocabulary to approach strategic planning and sustainable management in terms of time capital at four levels of analysis: (1) individual, (2) microsocial, (3) mesosocial, and (4) macrosocial. Besides proposing a taxonomical granularity, the paper brings conceptual clarifications by using equations as cognitive resources, as well as by discussing issues of convertibility
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Non-Compliance in Public Procurement – Comparative Study under EU Law Transylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences (IF 0.892) Pub Date : 2020-10-28 Tünde Tátrai,Gyöngyi Vörösmarty
There is an expectation towards public policy to ensure efficiency in public procurement (manage public spending properly), ensure accountability and support the social, environmental and other economic and political goals. Increasingly complex regulation raises the question of whether its complexity helps or rather hinders the efficient spending of public money. This paper aims to contribute to the
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Formation of National Positions on EU Legislative Proposals in Slovenia: What Role for Civil Society Organizations? Transylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences (IF 0.892) Pub Date : 2020-10-28 Damjan Lajh,Meta Novak
This article considers the EU policymaking process from the national perspective, emphasizing the involvement of civil society organizations (CSOs) in the process of formulating national positions prior to negotiations in the Council of the EU. Its scope is limited to the stagist model of policy analysis, focusing on the policy formulation stage and 20 of the most salient EU legislative proposals on
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"Social Work in Romanian Rural Communities: An Inside Perspective from a Qualitative Study" Transylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences (IF 0.892) Pub Date : 2020-10-28 Cristina Faludi,Nicoleta Neamțu
The social work profession was revived in Romania in 1994, when the first generation of university graduates went to the field. However, only in 2011, when the Law no. 292 of Social Work was issued, the framework for the activity of social workers in the rural communities was settled. Although the legislation provided a proper context for the unfolding of a meaningful social work in rural settings
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Students’ Sense and Sensibilities. An Exploratory Study of Gender Perceptions At Romania’s Largest University Transylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences (IF 0.892) Pub Date : 2020-10-28 Alexandra Columban,Mihail Buse,Cornelia Macarie
Academia is one of the main hubs for promoting gender equality and non-discrimination, yet very few programs in Romania actively tackle the topic. An assessment of students’ perceptions is thus necessary in order to identify the level of awareness around gender issues and potential barriers hindering an inclusive academic environment. The present exploratory study aims to fill this gap by providing
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Demand Elasticity for Local Public Transport in Polish Cities: Do Local Policies Matter? Transylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences (IF 0.892) Pub Date : 2020-10-28 Paweł Swianiewicz,Agata Brzóska
Since 1990, the number of local public transport passengers has been steadily decreasing with a simultaneous increase in the number of residents using individual transport. Since that process has contributed to an increase in traffic congestion and the deterioration of air quality in cities, local governments have tried to reverse that negative trend. A few years now, a reversal of this trend has been
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The Labor Market, Employability and Entrepreneurship in the Romanian Public Sector Transylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences (IF 0.892) Pub Date : 2020-10-28 Nicu Gavriluță
The issue of employability and the development of entrepreneurship presents a real challenge, given that today’s labor market is highly dynamic. Projections made for the next twenty years indicate important changes. The present study capitalizes on a research carried out in the Romanian academic environment, within three universities. The sample included students and employers from the public sphere
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"Encouraging University – Community Collaboration: Why, How and Towards What End?" Transylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences (IF 0.892) Pub Date : 2020-06-22 Polya KATSAMUNSKA, ", Allan ROSENBAUM, Professor, Public Administration Department, Faculty of Management and Administration, University of National and World Economy (UNWE), Sofi a, Bulgaria E-mail: polya.katsamunska@unwe.bg", "Professor and Director, Institute for Public Management and Center for Democracy and Good Governance, Florida International University, Florida, USA E-mail: rosenbau@fi u.edu"
Increasingly, all throughout the world, universities have begun to initiate activities and projects that go beyond the classroom and which profoundly impact both the communities of which they are a part and society more generally. In order to better understand how such initiatives work to benefit both university and community, we examine two very different projects emerging out of the private and public
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Overview of Social Entrepreneurship Development in Slovenia Transylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences (IF 0.892) Pub Date : 2020-06-22 Barbara BRADAČ HOJNIK, ", Associate professor, Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Maribor, Maribor, Slovenia Tel.: 00386-22-290.256 E-mail: barbara.bradac@um.si"
The aim of the article is to analyze public policies of social entrepreneurship in Slovenia and their developmental phases, the characteristics of social economy organizations, and to assess the framework conditions for social entrepreneurship by social enterprises. Since social entrepreneurship follows mainly social objectives, it needs the support of the ecosystem to develop properly. The EU allows
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Pro-Civic Representation? Citizens’ Participation in the Opinion of Finnish and Polish Local Councilors Transylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences (IF 0.892) Pub Date : 2020-06-22 Katarzyna RADZIK-MARUSZAK, ", Arto HAVERI, Agnieszka PAWŁOWSKA, Associate professor, Institute of Political Science and Administration, Faculty of Political Science and Journalism, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Lublin, Poland Tel.: 0048-81-537.6015 E-mail: katarzyna.radzik@umcs.pl", "Professor, Faculty of Management and Business, Tampere University, Tampere, Finland Tel.: 00358-40-190.4020 E-mail:
In the recent years we have witnessed the growing criticism of the representative framework and the way it operates in many European countries. At the local level, numerous authorities try to answer the shortcomings of representation by applying new participatory agendas. This, however, not only influences the governing process, but also often leads to the clash between elected politicians and citizens
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Internal Functioning of Romanian Non-Profit Organizations – A New Governance Model and Its Effect on Services and Community Relations Transylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences (IF 0.892) Pub Date : 2020-06-22 Claudia PETRESCU, ", Martin BALOGH, Natalia Monica BALOGH, Paula BEUDEAN, Professor, Dean of Graduated Education, Oakland University, Rochester Hills, Michigan, U.S.A. E-mail: cpetrescu@oakland.edu", "Associate Professor, Public Administration and Management Department, Faculty of Political, Administrative and Communication Sciences, Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania Tel.: 0040-264-431
The Romanian non-profit sector is experiencing an explosive growth, an increase of 60% in the last ten years due to the rapid economic and political changes taking place in the region. Currently, there are over 100,000 non-profits with approximately 40% of them being active (FDSC, 2017). This exploratory research aims to provide an understanding of the current Romanian non-profit governance model,
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Local Sales Taxes and Spending Patterns in U.S. County Governments Transylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences (IF 0.892) Pub Date : 2020-06-22 Jongmin SHON, ", Yilin HOU, Assistant professor, Ph.D., School of Public Affairs and Administration, Rutgers University – Newark, Newark, U.S.A. E-mail: jmshon@rutgers.edu", "Professor, Ph.D., Public Administration and International Affairs, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University, Syracuse, U.S.A. E-mail: yihou@maxwell.syr.edu"
The fiscal effects of local (option) sales taxes (LOSTs) have remained an open question. This paper assembles a county-level dataset of all the U.S. states from 1970 to 2006, and employs two empirical methods to obtain more convincing and generalizable results. The main goal of this study is to consider the different purposes of LOSTs for county governments and examine the effects of each purpose on
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The Determinants of Public Pension Debt in U.S. States Transylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences (IF 0.892) Pub Date : 2020-06-22 Jae Young LIM, ", Senior Researcher, Center for Government Competitiveness, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea Tel.: 82-2-880-8530 E-mail: jaeyounglim@yahoo.com"
State and local governments across the United States of America (USA) were hit hard by the recent recession. The fiscal stress alerted the public to the increasing amount of public pension debt for which, despite snowballing levels of pension debt, the causes are unclear. This article examines the factors contributing to annual changes in unfunded public pension ratios, focusing in particular on public