Dilemmas of the intermediate level of the administration

• Author: Valentina Cornea
• Position: Senior Lecturer, PhD, Dunarea de Jos University of Galati, Romania
• Pages: 517-524

ISSN: 2067 – 9211 Miscellaneous

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Dilemmas of the Intermediate

Level of the Administration

Valentina Cornea1

Abstract: The administration and the authority of the intermediate level are organized very different. The

invoked reasons for creating this level are varied: for a better democracy, efficiency, effective, decentralization

etc. But there are points of view which associate, especially the third intermediate level with bureaucracy

amplification, corruption increasing, a bad management of the new structures created, the overlapping of the

responsibilities in some technical, legislative or financial fields. The study systematized these points of view,

as well as the initiated changes by the European Union on the organizational and structural aspects of the

intermediate level.

Keywords: intermediate level; democracy; efficiency; effective; decentralization; management;

responsibilities

1. Introduction

Without claiming to present exhaustively, several reasons make the administrative levels issue so

susceptible of an obvious academic interest:

1. The administrative levels are determined by phenomena “it can be hardly stopped (globalization)”,

their functional organizations proved the essential economic and cultural integration in the international

circuit.

2. There is a need for effective relay between local and global, avoiding downtime generated by the

central bureaucracy (Groza, 2002, p. 338).

3. A backdrop of political and emotional, which feeds the idea of reform, rebalance of territorial systems;

4. Today, contrary to any constitutional rule which requires a permanent power, the administration is a

force (Tofan, 2008, p. 128), (Alexandru, 2005)

2. What is Meant by Spatial Level of Decision and Administrative Action?

With the exception of the smallest states, consisting of a single human settlement, whose area does not

exceed several square kilometers (Vatican, Monaco) each state has several human settlements which are

the focus of polarization for surrounding rural areas. Thus the convergence centers of flows appear

corresponding to the human settlements and areas of divergence (peripheral) which correspond to the

areas of discontinuity. They make the state territory more or less homogenous in terms of natural and

1Senior Lecturer, PhD, Dunarea de Jos University of Galati, Romania, Address: 111 Domneasca Street, Galati, Romania, Tel.:

+40.336.130.165, fax: +40.236.493.370, Corresponding author: valentina.cornea@ugal.ro.