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Transparency and Responsibility in the Public Administration Institutions. The case of Romania

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  • Vrabie, Catalin
  • Tirziu, Andreea-Maria

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An important topic often found in the media, but ambiguously treated is “transparency”. This article will present a blueprint for Romanian municipalities’ Websites done through the transparency concept’s filter. We will see that althoughthe law imposes to municipalities to post specific items on the Internet, they either omit or post a minimum of information just to “follow” the rules, without giving any evidence of interest. Assuming that displaying online more information requested by the law will lead to an increased users’ confidence in the system, we accessed the Website of each municipality in Romania (103) to search for the existence of financial data (budgets, financial indicators, assets etc.). In the end, we have presented a brief report on how the government responds to citizens’ concerns. The results are not very satisfactory, but we consider that such analyses will create a competition between municipalities, in which citizens are the winners.

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  • Vrabie, Catalin & Tirziu, Andreea-Maria, 2017. "Transparency and Responsibility in the Public Administration Institutions. The case of Romania," MPRA Paper 83139, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    • Handle: RePEc:pra:mprapa:83139
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    1. Catalin VRABIE, 2013. "Increasing Transparency Through E-Communication Systems," HOLISTICA Journal of Business and Public Administration, Association Holistic Research Academic (HoRA), vol. 4(1), pages 63-70, January -.
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      government; municipality; electronic; transparency; responsibility;
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      • H83 - Public Economics - - Miscellaneous Issues - - - Public Administration

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