State Structure and Political Regime Structure

• Author: Paul Iulian Nedelcu
• Position: 1University of Craiova, Faculty of Social Sciences
• Pages: 289-292

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State Structure and Political Regime Structure

Paul – Iulian Nedelcu

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Abstract: The political regime is the concrete form of or ganization and functioning of political system and

therefore, the regime means the concrete way of organize, institutionalize and function a political s ystem

and of the exerc ise of political power by a social-political force in a social community or global social

istem. The political regime is not limited to institutions and state bodies, but it covers the entire political

system. Form of expression in social practice plan is the result of balance of forces between classes of

citizens, organizations, between them and c ivil society and politics.Designates the concrete form of

government formation and organization, of state bodies, in aspect of their characteristics and principles, the

relations between them and other state bodies, and also as the relationship between them and other

institutionalized forms of political systems. Instead, the political regime is an explicit realization of

axiological operations, a specific hierarchy of values, in gener al and political values, in par ticular. Even if

some elements of the political regime overla p to some extent and in some respects, those of form or

structure of guvernamnt s tate, thus they dissolve his identity, distinct quality of being specific traits of the

political regime.

Keywords: public administration; ministries; government; authorities of public administration

1. Introduction

The State, whose birth is determined by historical circumstances, is, first of all, an idea, a product of

human intelligence.

Regulator of the political struggle, the State has to ensure a homogenous base which situates it above

all divergent social interests. The liberal state, the state of the unique party or the pluralist state have

tried, each in its manner, to answer to this requirement.

The fundamental elements inherent to the existence of a state are: the territory, the population, the

power of the sovereign policy.

Constitutionally, the territory is interesting first of all as structure of state, component of the form of

state, alongside with the form of government and political regime.

The state structure is object of study both for international law and for the constitutional law. This fact

is explained through the complexity of the problematic and, of course, through its political, juridical

and scientific involvements.

The state structure has been defined in the doctrine as being th e organization of the state power in

certain spatial limits, meaning on a certain territory, designing the specific relations established among

the elements which compose the state assembly, as well as the specific relations between "whole" and

"components" (

Ioan & Ivanoff, & Gilia. 2008, p.38-58.

). From the state structure point of view, the states can

be divided into unitary states and federal states.

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University of Craiova, Faculty of Social Sciences, Address: 13 A. I. Cuza Str., Craiova 200585, Romania, Tel.: +40 251

414398, fax: +40 251 411688, Corresponding author:paul_iulyan@yahoo.com