Seminar for PhD Students and Junior Researchers: List of Papers

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Aliona BALAN, Anca CUCU, The Efficiency of Human Resources Management in the Public Sector: conditionality or a necessity? Comparative study between the civil servant system in Romania and Republic of Moldova.

Damien BOLGER, Defining Cross-Border Cooperation in the Irish and Northern Irish Administration Context: A ‘State of the Art’ review of the impact of Strand II of The Belfast Agreement on administration and governance on the island of Ireland.

Bogdan BERCEANU, Emerging Institutions in the EU Member States: Causes and Consequences.

Galina BORISOVA, A Comparative Study of Anti-Corruption NGOs in the U.S. and Russia.

Cláudia C. COSTA, Tourism Policy Instruments: An Emerging Analysis of Portuguese Local Governments.

Sorin DAN, Non-existent? Limited? Growing? Evidence on the Evaluation of Impacts of New Public Management Reforms in Romania, Estonia and Hungary.

Camelia DOGARU, The Implications of Rational Choice Theory in the Practice of Public Policy-Making. Correlations between the public policy for the insertion of graduates on the labour market and the educational training policy – Case Study.

Stephan DORSMAN, Commons knowledge and the definition of risks in policy-making processes.

Jörn EGE, Bureaucratic Autonomy – A Useful Conceptual Tool to Compare International Administrations?

Seemab Ara FAROOQI, Decentralisation and Organizational Performance: the case study of Service Delivery in Pakistan under Devolution Plan 2011.

Sergui-Ioan IRIMIA, Decentralisation 2.0: Open Source Government as New Instrument for Bidirectional Communication between Providers and Users of Public Services.

Maarten JANSSENS, Non-profit care providers on the internal market: the middle out of balance.

Sebastian JILKE, Steven van de WALLE, Two Track Public Services? Equity and Citizens’ Voice towards Services of General Interest.

Mindaugas KASELIS, Adaptation of Performance Management in Lithuanian Public Sector.

Tobias KRAUSE, Managing Behavioural Risk in Municipality Owned Companies.

Corina Georgiana LAZAR, Dynamics of Formal Structure of Central Public Institutions in Romania from 1900-2010.

Luis MOTA, The Power of Communities of Practice of Local Implementers within Public Service Coordination: Lessons from a Portuguese Lifelong Learning Policy.

Simonetta MUCCIO, The Public Management Reform: from theory to reality. A theoretical study and an empirical research of factors affection adoption and implementation of performance measures in Italian local governments.

Andreea NASTASE, Administrative ethics in the European Commission: individual attitudes and organizational processes.

Maria PIETILÄ, Obey or Masquerade: Universities’ Adaptation Strategies to Specialisation Demands.

Cristina SANDU, The Role of Social Entrepreneurship in the Public Sector in Romania.

Sabina SCHNELL, Translating Transparency – Case of Romania.

Bianca STAGLIANO, The Quality of Public Finance as key factor for Fiscal Consolidation: Debate and Empirical Evidence from European Stability and Convergence Programs.

Michele TANTARDINI, Davide GALLI, Performance measurement in central government administrations: a comparative analysis through Italian lenses.

Mihaela TUCA, Corporate Social Responsibility – Supporting Policy Frameworks in the EU.

Nina van LOON, Toward a Theoretical Framework on the Effect of Public Service Motivation on Performance. On the Relevance of Person-Environment Fit.

Dominik VOGEL, How to motivate public employees? Focusing on leadership as an important motivational factor.