Examining public Policy in Romania: is it transparent and legitimated?

Dogaru, Tatiana Camelia (2016): Examining public Policy in Romania: is it transparent and legitimated? Published in: International Journal of Management and Applied Science (IJMAS) , Vol. vol. 2, No. issue-9, special issue-1 (2016): pp. 107-112.

Abstract

In the last decades, in the context of many economic and financial crisis, the policy-making became the heart of government. In Romania, they represents the main instruments for solving the citizens’ problem: health care, education, the environment, and the mechanisms by which public money is budgeted. Therefore, this paper analyses the transparency and consultation in policy-making process from the view of different policy-making stages. The paper discusses the different mechanism and procedure designed and applied by Romanian government in policy-making process. Finally, it describes possible links between policy-making capacity and indicators for transparency, starting from Joseph Stiglitz assertion on the adverse effects of secrecy in government policy-making, “with more mistakes, public officials become more defensive; to protect themselves, they seek even more secrecy, narrowing in the circle still further, eroding still further the quality of decision-making”.

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• Language: English
• Keywords: policy-making, public consultation, transparency, financial crisis
• Subjects: D - Microeconomics > D7 - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making; H - Public Economics > H1 - Structure and Scope of Government; H - Public Economics > H1 - Structure and Scope of Government > H12 - Crisis Management

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