Democratic government impossible without the decentralization
Democratic government impossible without the decentralization

Summary/Abstract: The political, economic and social transformations in Romania after December 1989 have naturally led to substantial changes in the organization and functioning of the public administration. With the adoption of the Constitution, the extensive reform process after 1991 imposed the use of the concept of decentralization in the institutional sense, imposing the need to rethink the old centralized system in order to have an efficient public administration that would be closer to the citizens and would comply with the European principles and rules. The public administration reform must be understood as an essential condition of the Romanian democratization process, the creation of the rule of law, the moderni-zation and development of the economy in order to achieve a market economy; thus, the restructuring of the administration materialized in the conception and adoption of an adequate legal framework, a premise that removed the elements of the old administra¬tive regime (centralism, bureaucracy, hierarchical levels of subordination and control) The principles of the local public administration were determined by the Consti-tution of 1991, substantiating from a legal point of view, the administrative organization of the territorial and administrative divisions. Consequently, the state became aware of the fact that there are local authorities administered by their local elected officials and with their own forces, but under the control of the state authorities.

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