Comparative Public Administration and Management – Good Governance and Regulatory Quality in the 21st Century

The current volume represents the outcome of the international conference “Comparative Public Administration and Management – Good Governance and Regulatory Quality in the 21st Century,” organised in Bucharest on 19 June 2014. The conference has been organised by the National University of Political Studies and Public Administration – Faculty of Public Administration, Bucharest, Romania and Kaunas University of Technology – Faculty of Economics and Business and Faculty of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities (Institute of Public Policy and Administration), Kaunas, Lithuania. The conference brought together practitioners, researchers and specialists involved in various fields of activity.Permanent working groups of the conference was: WG 1: Regional Policy and Cooperation WG 2: Motivation and organizational behavior WG 3: Policy networks and regulatory governance WG 4: EU studies WG 5: Public law and administration WG 6: Finance, budgeting and accounting WG 7: Social economics and budgeting WG 8: Management and leadership WG for students.The contents of the papers presented have been focused on the following topics: The Manager’s Role in Organizational Communication; The Importance of New Common Assessment Framework 2013 in Public Administration. Differences between CAF 2006 and CAF 2013; Public Policy Instruments and Themes in the Field of Social Responsibility; Being Ethical in the Business Arena. The Case of Business Consulting Managers; Smart Specialisation for Bucharest-Ilfov Region – Managing the Project of Defining the Region’s Research and Innovation Strategy; Comparative Conceptual Framework for e-government Services in the EU; Evaluation Systems for Civil Servants. Comparative Analysis; Development of Public Services in Romania. Comparative Analysis; Best practices on the Government – Parliament Relationship in some EU Countries. An Adaptive Approach; Screen Tourism – Project Management for a New Regional Product; The Accounting Information System – An Indispensable Component of Public Sector Governance; Institution of Parliament in the Constitutional Monarchical Regimes. Comparative Analysis; The European decisional system ante and post the Lisbon Treaty; Anticorruption Strategies in Eastern and Central Europe. Comparative Analysis.