Strategic Management in Public Administration

Strategic management is a way of setting strategy by public organizations that integrates strategy, and thus includes its planning to formulate new strategies, ways to integrate strategies, as well as continuous strategic study. This strategic management can support public organizations to achieve their very important objectives as well as to develop public value. This strategy is what unites the capabilities and aspirations of public organizations. There are four types of strategists, as individuals, teams, organizations or collaborations and in public administration, as in other situations: the reactor who has low desires, mediocre capabilities, the dreamer, who aspires to special results, with low capabilities, i.e. the one who does not achieves nothing, another who has low aspirations, quite high capabilities, being also a skilled strategist, leading to high aspirations and high capabilities. There are eight approaches to strategic planning. Broader process approaches include those influenced by the Harvard Policy Model, i.e. logical incrementalism and stakeholder management. Process approaches in a partial way include strategic negotiations, the management of these strategic issues as well as strategic planning as a framework for continuous innovation. Finally, there are also two background approaches, namely an analysis of the portfolio as well as of the forces inscribed in competition

The Multifunctional Content of the Human Right to the Environment

If the protection of the environment inevitably entails the attainment of fundamental freedoms, such as, for example, the right to property or the restriction of certain easements or the restriction of the right to move in certain protected areas, it ends up, as we have shown, to broaden other concerns. The right to the environment was initially closely linked to the right to health and the right to life; this later translated into the assertion of a right to better living and working conditions such as occupational health and safety and the development of the right to rest and recreation. But environmental law is the bearer of fundamental rights, such as the right to information and participation, decision-making, the right to association, and, thus, the strengthening of the social and collective function of existing rights. Law is the mass of duties both for the state and public authorities and for the individual. Environmental protection may be the reason for the increased participation of citizens in public life and the democratization of all procedures

Modern Intellectual Slavery

Slavery from the medieval Latin sclavus - slavus refers to the human condition of persons (slaves) who work for a master without remuneration and who do not have rights over their own person. Slaves must obey all orders of the master from birth or capture (transition from freedom to slavery) to death or release (transition from slavery to freedom). From a historical point of view, slavery means, by definition, the denial of equality between people, and philosophically slaves were considered a separate and inferior species. This is also the condition of the expert before the court. The court may order at its discretion, without recourse to another expert in the field, the cutting of explanatory estimates regarding the costs involved in carrying out expertise’s in civil or criminal cases, the use of expert reports in cases after their annulment and taking the money back. The works of experts are most often accompanied copyright because many experts come from academic field, people who most often publish their work for teaching purposes. The profession of expert is a liberal profession, but through legislation and the attitude of magistrates, it has become a slavery, because most of the time the works of experts remain unpaid or at best, poorly paid far below their intrinsic value

Mediating High-Stakes Global and Judicial Disputes

What matters is the fact that mediation is a powerful possibility to cover human requirements, using a very fast, very effective but also relatively cheap solution to close the conflict. It raises the question of the existence of social justice which is closely related to the fact that mediation can bring individuals from a strong community to the same table. Mediation has the extraordinary ability to transform conflictual interaction into strengthening the relationship between the parties, including the society of which the parties are a part. However, we cannot deny the negative aspect of mediation, its harsh but also oppressive character that can increase the power of a state over individuals, respectively of the strong over the weak. The timely resolution of the conflict is the main beneficial effect of mediation as an inexpensive and fast alternative to the legal process, but it thus denies the right of the poor parties to compensation, to the legislation on the protection of human rights, although speed is guaranteed. The purpose of deepening the notion of mediation is to show its potential both from a legal point of view and in society, in the resolution of minor, traditional conflicts

Tax Evasion – between Civil and Criminal Law

Establishing the boundaries between the behaviors that constitute tax evasion and those that are outside the criminal law is a subject of maximum interest both for the people called to apply the law, and especially for the litigants. In this article, the authors propose to analyze the relationship between tax evasion and payment due. Over time, a non-unitary practice at the level of judicial bodies has formed around it, capable of generating confusion. The authors believe that some problems are placed in the litigious-fiscal area, coming out of the authority of the criminal law. In support of this opinion, arguments regarding the requirement of the typicality of the deed both on the subjective and objective side, as well as on the need to apply the criminal law as an ultima ratio, are presented at length

Brief Considerations Regarding the Concept of Rule of Law in the Context of the Covid-19 Global Crisis

In the present paper we aim to analyse some aspects in which the COVID-19 pandemic generated a crisis regarding the application of the rule of law. First, we will refer to some general aspects regarding the content and importance of rule of law concept in democratic societies. Then, taking into account the fact that the law regulates situations that occur in real life, in society, we will discuss the fact that the COVIC 19 pandemic situation generated circumstances which had not been foreseen by the democratic states authorities and this generated an actual global crisis. This crisis affected the rules regarding the good governance. As the pandemic is approaching its end, our societies are not yet prepared to enforce new necessary aspects of the rule of law. Also, we will refer to the fact that the year 2021 was the third year in a row in which WJP Rule of Law® reported that the rule of law scores of several countries have declined rather than improved