Emergența modelului guvernanței multi-level în România

Abstract

The communitarian model of Multi-Level Governance has become the EU model of territorial policies governance. This paper aims to show that the characteristics of the Multi-Level Governance model are currently emerging in Romania. Such a system is based on principles that strive to increase the number of decision-makers, as well as to make both the governing levels and the processes of institutional coordination more effective. The article starts by defining the concept of Multi-Level Governance and by outlining the major characteristics of the model; it is followed by a discussion of different patterns of multi-level governance in the EU new member states. The last section describes and analyzes the Romanian reforms process which strives to rearrange the division of public competencies among several tiers of the government.