Instabilité du personnel gouvernemental et continuité décisionnelle en Roumanie postcommuniste
Instability of Governmental Personnel and Continuity in the Decision-Making Process in Post-Communist Romania

Summary/Abstract: The study focuses on the functioning of the post-communist Romanian cabinets from the perspective of the behavior of high-level government actors: ministers and state secretaries. The study underlines the empowerment of the executive decision on vertical axis, as well as the role of the institutional logic in the formation of cohesion networks among political actors. The insertion of governmental actors in these networks, on the basis of a coincidence of the institutional trajectories, lessens the instability of the governmental personnel and ensures a continuity of the decision-making process forged on the principle of the accumulation of executive experience. The study thus employs a two-fold approach. In a first instance, the author investigates personnel reshuffles, as a measure of personnel instability; the study also performs a quantitative analysis on the reproduction of political actors in executive functions. The second part of the article scrutinizes the effects generated by the personnel’s dynamics on the decision-making procedures and the strategies adopted in order to lessen the discontinuities produced by the governmental actors’ fluidity.

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