The role of decentralization for efficient public administration

• Author: Emilia Cornelia Stoica
• Position: Associated Professor, Nicolae Titulescu University, Bucharest
• Pages: 218-227

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THE ROLE OF DECENTRALIZATION FOR EFFICIENT PUBLIC

ADMINISTRATION

Emilia Cornelia STOICA*

Abstract

A modern public administration is focused on meeting the needs of citizens, provides

comprehensive information on matters concerning their community with full cooperate with

citizens and public control exercised carefully and neutral on the achievement of public services.

Modern public administration seeks to determine how greater participation of civil society in

decision-making process that local corporate and also provides administrative transparency and

direct communication with citizens as possible.

In this sense, decentralization of public administration, involving public services decentra-

lization and strengthening local autonomy in administrative and financial point of view, realizing

and working to enhance local involvement in management issues they face and to build policy own

- in the context of overall national economic and social development - to increase economic

performance and to improve the social life of local citizens by defining and local responsibilities

regarding local services and financial performance, for their accomplishment.

Keywords: decentralization, local autonomy, strategy, financial resources, financial

autonomy, subsidies, fiscal consolidation, Equalize local government revenues

1. Introduction

Public administration reform strategy included many aspects, the main elements among its

designed to monitor the conduct of activities. In this direction were the creation of the Government

for Public Administration Reform and Monitoring Unit of the Central Public Administration

Reform and the groups of the ministries and counties to monitor public administration reform.

Support public administration reform process must be carried out both by measures to

improve economic activity in different areas - energy, construction, research and development, etc.

-, subject for specific government programs, also by developing and implementing viable

programs for funding these programs, which includes making program budgets (which, generally,

in financial practice are basic budgets zero) and by rethinking the system of financing public

services, which involves decreasing the share of resource allocation from the central budget and

the corresponding increase in funding from their local sources.

Our country, like other Central and Eastern European countries had, before the imposition of

the communist regime, a strong decentralized government, composed of county and municipal

councils having a significant degree of autonomy and financial management, but their powers

were taken by the central authority in the period 1945-1990

In 1991, Romania adopted a new constitution, which stipulates that the responsibility of

management and financing of local affairs to return to be of the local public authorities, formed as

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*Associated Professor, Nicolae Titulescu University, Bucharest, (email: liastoica@gmail.com)