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Political Representation and Governance: The Case of Second-Tier Councilors in Romania

Transylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences

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Title Political Representation and Governance: The Case of Second-Tier Councilors in Romania
 
Creator STĂNUȘ, Cristina; Associate Professor, Department of International
Relations, Political Science and Security Studies,
‘Lucian Blaga’ University of Sibiu, Romania
 
Subject second tier of local government, political representation, governance, Romania
 
Description The notion of governance stresses interaction and co-operation between many interdependent actors and, as such, poses a challenge to political leadership and the traditional electoral- based notion of political representation. Governance-oriented reforms bring about new roles for all actors involved in local politics and policy-making, starting with the elected officials. Among these actors, councilors on both tiers of local government are called upon to take on a new role as goal-steering decision-makers, while accepting a clear separation between politics and administration and the increased interdependence with non-state actors. This paper reflects on the difficulties of accommodating the representational role orientations of local elected officials with the introduction of governance-oriented policy-making mechanisms. It explores two inter-related questions in the context provided by the second tier of local government in Romania: (1) How does the representational role orientation of Romanian councilors look like? and (2) How do Romanian councilors reconcile their representational role orientation with the introduction of governance elements in the Romanian public sector?
 
Publisher Babes Bolyai University
 
Contributor —
 
Date 2016-06-01
 
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/487
 
Source Transylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences; 2016: Issue No. 48 E/June; 124-144
1842-2845
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://rtsa.ro/tras/index.php/tras/article/view/487/476
 
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