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The paper analyses the trust of the Romanian citizens in political institutions and leaders at two different levels: first, it is taken into account the relation between trust and institutional performance, and secondly, the influence on trust of the ethical expectations of the population and of the current corruption and lack of accountability of the political actors. Citizens grant and withhold trust based on their evaluation of the performance of the actors and institutions of government, but scientific studies...

The purpose of our study is to provide a up-to-date comparative analysis of the performance management practices implemented in public sector institutions in European Union countries and to identify the ones that could be successfully adapted to the public sector environment of countries which still need to put an effort into the reform and modernization of their human resources management system. Performance management practices create the connection between individual and organizational objectives and provide th...

The concept of "hybridism" in political science has become the result of the theoretical search to describe the new political realities that have emerged in crises, "transitional" or different socio-cultural contexts. Hybrid forms of political institutions were the subject of research interest of V. Merkel, A. Croissant, G. O'Donnell, H.K.Bhabha, S.P. Peregudov, I.L. Prokhorenko, I.V. Kudryashova et al. The purpose of our research was to assess the status and trends of development of modern hybrid political instit...

The problem of orphan works is one of the main issues in modern copyright law (or we should say droit d'auteur because law of Continental Europe is much more concentrated on an author and his/her rights than on the problem of copying). Works labeled as orphan cannot be popularized because they are protected by law for seventy years from the moment of an author's death. The problem is that we do not know who the author is or what happened to him/her, if s/he is alive or not or who the heir apparents are and we cann...

The Directive 2005/60/EC and the FATF Recommendations prescribe and drive performance and assignment of specific tasks and duties for the non-financial sector professionals in the anti-money laundering system. The scope of their activities is limited to financial transactions, bounded by professional confidentiality; where the obligation to report suspicious activity is legislatively restricted to their core business. The low number of reported suspicious transactions by the non-financial sector professionals, as ...

The paper titled “Social Policy in the Second Fico´s Cabinet” discusses the period when the government headed by Mr. Fico started in 2012 after Ms. Radicova had resigned as the Prime Minister (2010-2012). The government of Ms. Radicova was a right wing cabinet. The Fico´s government is a government of one-party so he is able to implement completely his pre-election programme that is the basis for the programme of the national cabinet. There is the only one political party proclaiming the social-democratic or...

The main sources of the Russian legislation in the field of waste management have been analyzed. The principles of the state policy in the field of waste management have been identified. On the basis of the specific features of the interaction between territorial environmental authorities and natural resource users, the author proposes a mechanism which makes it possible to systemize the basic legal regulations for hazardous waste handling at an enterprise. The practices of waste management in the USSR, as well as...

In the current Romanian legislation, more specifically after the entry into force of the Civil Code on October 1, 2011, the notions of professional and enterprise become particularly important. This importance derives from the fact that the very notion of merchant is part of the larger sphere of the notion of professional. Also, the Civil Code renounces at the notion of merchant within the meaning of the Commercial Code, which had been repealed, but uses the professional, as subject of business relationships. Also...

Both state authorities and the society are in need of performance analysis of public administration. This paper analyzes existing public administration estimation techniques used by international agencies and individual countries. This paper also quantifies an effectiveness of public administration in Russia and interprets the results.