Government engagement in co-operative service delivery in Romania: knowledge and acknowledgement
Government engagement in co-operative service delivery in Romania: knowledge and acknowledgement

Summary/Abstract: This paper approaches the engagement of successive Romanian governments with service delivery by third sector organisations and uses policy discourse to assess governance practices associated with collaborative service delivery. The topic is approached by a theoretically-informed qualitative analysis of policy documents spanning a decade. Results point out that the most important subjective factors shaping collaborative service delivery in post-communist Romanian are the conditionality of EU accession and the polarisation of policy-making in key sectors. The paper identifies three stages of cooperative service delivery in Romania, each characterised by a specific mix of governance elements. It shows hierarchical and market governance discourse to be prevalent as compared to the network governance discourse, with policy consequences in the area of co-operative public service delivery in Romania.

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