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The Social Construction of Policy Targets and the Interest Groups

Transylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences

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Title The Social Construction of Policy Targets and the Interest Groups
 
Creator POPESCU, Luminița Gabriela; Senior lecturer, Faculty of Public
Administration, National School of
Political and Administrative Sciences,
Bucharest, Romania
 
Subject Policy targets; interest group; social construction; citizen; corruption; political system;
 
Description Frequently the major pressures on the political system are generated by groups that project their objectives and interventions – private interest groups. The presence of these groups in the public arena is considered destructive, and the influences they exercise on the political system are deemed similar to those of corruption. However, political analysts consider that, effects notwithstanding, the presence of interest groups represents an unavoidable cost in any democratic system. A reason for maintaining interest groups is the connection established between citizens and public officials through unions and business, trade or professional associations. The value of such a link may be equivalent to the actual price of the unavoidable distortion that occurs when interest groups are active within the public policy process. The interest groups are certainly too important to be eliminated under the pressure of the myth of corruption.
 
Publisher Babes Bolyai University
 
Contributor —
 
Date 2007-02-01
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Peer-reviewed Article
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://rtsa.ro/tras/index.php/tras/article/view/357
 
Source Transylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences; 2007: Issue No. 19 E/February; 86-99
1842-2845
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://rtsa.ro/tras/index.php/tras/article/view/357/347
 
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