THE DEVELOPMENT OF BOUND GOVERNANCE IN BULGARIA: ACHIEVEMENTS AND LIMITATIONS
THE DEVELOPMENT OF BOUND GOVERNANCE IN BULGARIA: ACHIEVEMENTS AND LIMITATIONS

Summary/Abstract: This article analyses the concept of “bound governance” which aims to deepen the citizen participation and to improve it’s contribution to government services. Bound governance transforms the understanding of the relationship between government, business and citizens. It is directly linked to the importance of the monitoring and the effectiveness of public policies implementation. The luck of such an effectiveness became apparent in the post-communist countries during the last decades. Recent trends in the administrative reform in Bulgaria and the development of e-government provide evidence of the existence of bound governance fundaments in the country. Bound governace focuses on the rule of law and rational bureaucracy, on the economic approach to property management and on the evaluation of administrative results, the importance of the quality and the efficiency of public services. The objective of the research is, analyzing what has been done so far, to present the difficulties and limitations to the development of bound governance in Bulgaria in the context of the European perspective.Three pillars can be identified here: (1) feedback on the regulation of state performance monitoring; (2) citizen participation in the process of standardization of services; (3) portals for public services and electronic consultations at the central and local levels of e-government. All of the above have some problems and limitations in their development.

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