Territorial-administrative reorganization, a perspective of the scientific concepts

• Author: Emil Balan
• Position: Professor Ph.D., National School of Political Studies and Public Administration, Bucharest, Romania
• Pages: 261-267

Emil Balan

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LESIJ NR. XVIII, VOL. 2/2011

TERRITORIAL-ADMINISTRATIVE REORGANIZATION,

A PERSPECTIVE OF THE SCIENTIFIC CONCEPTS

Emil B;LAN∗

Abstract

The traditional problem posed by the organization of public administration is to determine

whether the activities that offer it content are going to be entrusted to one and the same

administration – the State’s one – or are they going to be distributed to several components,

having their own authority and territorial dispersion. Without denying the unity of Romanian

public administration, we are going to notice that we are facing in front of an administration built

in such a manner to ensure two main categories of interest: the national interest and the local

ones. In the field literature we find the opinion of two subsystems of the public administration: the

national subsystem and the local subsystem. Both public administrations have a common

territorial support, even if it has different significations as the one of administrative

circumscription in the national subsystem and the other one of collectivity in the local subsystem

The reorganization of the Romanian public administration must be grounded on the consecrated

scientific significance of the terms employed, the present study aiming to be a contribution to this

process of clarification.

Keywords: public administration, system, administrative unit, local collectivity,

reorganization.

1. Introduction

The study of the organization of public administration involves the research of the principles

that ground the constitution of the assembly that formally form this system, the rapports between

them and the characteristics of e ach component.

From a material point of view, as an activity that serves the public interest transposed into

law, public administration is realized through a variety of organizational forms that make the

public administration system.

At its turn, this gearing is a subsystem of the global society.

Having the role to accomplish political values, through which the general interests of the

society are expressed, public administration is related to the state power. Executive power is the

one that ensures the management and the control of the whole public administration system,

established for the realization of the general interests of the society.

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* Professor Ph.D., National School of Political Studies and Public Administration, Bucharest, Romania

(email: emil_balan2005@yahoo.fr). Beneficiary of the project “Re-structuring the program of doctoral training and

research in the fields of political sciences, administrative sciences, sociological and communication sciences -

DOCT”, co-funded by the European Union through the European Social Fund, Sectorial Operational Program

Human Resources Development 2007-2013.