E-Administration as a Way of Increasing the Managerial Capacity in Public Sector

This paper deals with a developing concept, that of public sector reform, and explores it within the boundaries of e-administration practices. International competition and internal raising expectations have lead governments across the world to reconfigure their relationships with the surrounding environments. In doing so, they mostly switched to a newer paradigm, based not on affirmation and mechanical theories, but on the concept of a living, biological system. Following this trend, many governments and their subsequent organizations choose to become flexible and decentralized, to recognize once again the importance of horizontal collaboration and internal partnerships and to value information. In this trend, ITC represents one of the modern instruments that may help implementing democracy and developing current public services as well as educational systems. Fully aware of the need for a revolution in the organizational culture of public administration and of a transition towards a horizontal, service-oriented administration with intensive information exchange among all its partners, Romania has adopted the European vision on e-government and e-governance, preparing itself for a complete transformation that the new technologies both produce and allow. In this context, 'The Government’s Strategy concerning the National Action Plan e-administration', enacted in October 2001 by the Romanian Parliament supports the European idea of getting the governance closer to its citizens. As this vision is described within the paper, the authors will analyze the Romanian solutions to increasing administrative efficiency. In doing so, the most relevant scientific contributions to defining the 'e-administration' concept are to be summarized and implications of its content, exercised against a Romanian backgroundpublic sector reform, e-administration, ITC

E-administration as a way of increasing the managerial capacity in public sector

This paper deals with a developing concept, that of public sector reform, and explores it within the boundaries of e-administration practices. International competition and internal raising expectations have lead governments across the world to reconfigure their relationships with the surrounding environments. In doing so, they mostly switched to a newer paradigm, based not on affirmation and mechanical theories, but on the concept of a living, biological system. Following this trend, many governments and their subsequent organizations choose to become flexible and decentralized, to recognize once again the importance of horizontal collaboration and internal partnerships and to value information. In this trend, ITC represents one of the modern instruments that may help implementing democracy and developing current public services as well as educational systems. Fully aware of the need for a revolution in the organizational culture of public administration and of a transition towards a horizontal, service-oriented administration with intensive information exchange among all its partners, Romania has adopted the European vision on e-government and e-governance, preparing itself for a complete transformation that the new technologies both produce and allow. In this context, 'The Government's Strategy concerning the National Action Plan e-administration', enacted in October 2001 by the Romanian Parliament supports the European idea of getting the governance closer to its citizens. As this vision is described within the paper, the authors will analyze the Romanian solutions to increasing administrative efficiency. In doing so, the most relevant scientific contributions to defining the 'e-administration' concept are to be summarized and implications of its content, exercised against a Romanian background

Financing public education in the European Union. Case study: The higher education system

The study “Financing public education in the European Union. Case study: The higher education system” offers a brief description of the current legislation, institutional arrangements and financing sources for the higher education system in the EU. It builds on data released by the ministries and departments dealing with the higher education between 2008 and 2010, and scrutinizes both the EU founding member states, as well as Central and Eastern European countries, recently accepted as member states. The study is currently a work in progress, further research being already envisaged.financing public education, higher education system

On the Way to Modernization: The 'Good Enough' Governance Making in Romania

‘To be or not to be good governance' has probably been a question of interest to scholars for many centuries now; the issue of how to measure it as to offer alternatives for governmental actions however became of interest only recently. In this respect, this paper explores the concept of 'good enough' governance in the context provided by Robert Dahl's theory on democratization. In doing so, it elaborates the idea according to which good enough governance may be interpreted as a minimal democratic system in need of a minimal democratic administrative practice. The validation of this theoretical tool is to be completed against the Romanian administrative reform as assessed by the national strategic documents and the European Commission Regular and Monitoring Reports of 1998-2006. The larger scope of the paper is to offer a comprehensive image of the 'good enough' governance inside the spectrum of the building of a consolidated democrac

E-Administration as a Way of Increasing the Managerial Capacity in Public Sector

This paper deals with a developing concept, that of public sector reform, and explores it within the boundaries of e-administration practices. International competition and internal raising expectations have lead governments across the world to reconfigure their relationships with the surrounding environments. In doing so, they mostly switched to a newer paradigm, based not on affirmation and mechanical theories, but on the concept of a living, biological system. Following this trend, many governments and their subsequent organizations choose to become flexible and decentralized, to recognize once again the importance of horizontal collaboration and internal partnerships and to value information. In this trend, ITC represents one of the modern instruments that may help implementing democracy and developing current public services as well as educational systems. Fully aware of the need for a revolution in the organizational culture of public administration and of a transition towards a horizontal, service-oriented administration with intensive information exchange among all its partners, Romania has adopted the European vision on e-government and e-governance, preparing itself for a complete transformation that the new technologies both produce and allow. In this context, 'The Government’s Strategy concerning the National Action Plan e-administration', enacted in October 2001 by the Romanian Parliament supports the European idea of getting the governance closer to its citizens. As this vision is described within the paper, the authors will analyze the Romanian solutions to increasing administrative efficiency. In doing so, the most relevant scientific contributions to defining the 'e-administration' concept are to be summarized and implications of its content, exercised against a Romanian backgroun

On the Way to Modernization: The 'Good Enough' Governance Making in Romania

‘To be or not to be good governance' has probably been a question of interest to scholars for many centuries now; the issue of how to measure it as to offer alternatives for governmental actions however became of interest only recently. In this respect, this paper explores the concept of 'good enough' governance in the context provided by Robert Dahl's theory on democratization. In doing so, it elaborates the idea according to which good enough governance may be interpreted as a minimal democratic system in need of a minimal democratic administrative practice. The validation of this theoretical tool is to be completed against the Romanian administrative reform as assessed by the national strategic documents and the European Commission Regular and Monitoring Reports of 1998-2006. The larger scope of the paper is to offer a comprehensive image of the 'good enough' governance inside the spectrum of the building of a consolidated democrac

Finanţarea învăţământului public în Uniunea Europeană. Studiu de caz: învăţământul superior

The study “Financing public education in the European Union. Case study: The higher education system” offers a brief description of the current legislation, institutional arrangements and financing sources for the higher education system in the EU. It builds on data released by the ministries and departments dealing with the higher education between 2008 and 2010, and scrutinizes both the EU founding member states, as well as Central and Eastern European countries, recently accepted as member states. The study is currently a work in progress, further research being already envisaged

Evaluation of transfer and bioaccumulation factors of heavy metals in different parsley samples

Heavy metals transfer factors help to observe metals impact on agricultural products (vegetables and/or fruits) to evaluate different bioaccumulation scenarios to interpret available experimental results and for designing fingerprints or bioaccumulation maps. The aim of this study was to evaluate the transfer factors (TF) of some heavy metals (HMs) including (Fe, Mn, Zn, Cu, Ni, Pb and Cd) from soil to root and leaves of parsley samples cultivated on polluted and nonpolluted areas and to identify the fingerprint of transferred metals. The heavy metal (HM) content was analyzed using Flame Atomic Absorption Spectrometry (FAAS) technique. The bioaccumulation factor (BF) and TF in parsley samples were used for obtaining the fingerprints (HMs bioaccumulation maps) of parsley samples

HEPATORENAL SYNDROME: A REVIEW

Hepatorenal syndrome (HRS) is defined as a functional renal failure in patients with liver disease that features morphologically intact kidneys, where regulatory mechanisms have minimized glomerular filtration and maximized tubular resorption and urine concentration. The syndrome occurs almost exclusively in patients with ascites. Type 1 HRS develops as a consequence of a severe reduction of effective circulating volume due to both an extreme splanchnic arterial vasodilatation and a reduction of cardiac output. Type 2 HRS is characterized by a stable or slowly progressive renal failure so that its main clinical consequence is not acute renal failure, but refractory ascites, and its impact on prognosis is less negative. Liver transplantation is the most appropriate therapeutic method, nevertheless, only a few patients can receive it. The first line treatment includes terlipressin plus albumin. Renal function recovery can be achieved in less than 50% of patients and a considerable decrease in renal function may reoccur even in patients who have been responding to therapy over the short term. Other therapies include transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunts (TIPS), dialysis and peritoneovenous shunts which are most commonly done when patients are awaiting a liver transplant or when there is the possibility of improvement in liver function

The Internalization of the European Administrative Space - principles in national public administrations. Study Case: Romania

Among different sociological concepts and theories applicable to the study of the process of Europeanization of public administration, internalization is but seldom to be encountered. The internalization of the principles of the European Administrative Space (EAS) in the national public administrations appears as both a learning process, as well as a process of organizational change, a consequence of the interaction between individual learning, civil servants and public employees, and organizational learning, at the level of public institutions and authorities. The mechanisms that favor internalization are multiple, and are extracted from the complexity of the activities implied by the European integration; without it, one could not differentiate between the amounts of information available. The authors of the present report chose to make an assessment based on empirical researches, and an interpretation in accordance to the statistical instruments employed. This report is structured in three chapters regarding the European Union and the process of Europeanization, EAS in the context of Europeanization, as well as the internalization of the EAS principles in Romania. The empirical and statistical approach represents the largest part of the report, offering significant details for which those interested may constitute the premises for further developments. Actually, the formulated conclusions may be even more deepened and associated with action plans to determine a further internalization of the EAS principles