Semestrul I

This course is intended to introduce second year Leadership students to the field of Administrative Law. It offers a short introduction regarding the general theory of law and a broad analyse of the basic components of administrative law. First, the course will focus on describing and analysing the principles of administrative law, the administrative organisation (local and central) and the administrative procedure (especially the acts, facts and operations in administrative law). Secondly, it will emphasise the concepts of public property and administrative contracts and the last part of the course will concentrate on studying the field of administrative disputes.

In order to become better performers and also to be more responsive to the new challenges of the globalized world, the public sector needs innovation. The public sector needs to find ways to innovate its structure and ways of working, but it also needs to innovate the way in which it delivers public goods and manages public resources.

The course’s objectives are:

• To support students to acquire the innovator mind-set;
  
• To equip students with the knowledge and skills necessary to bring innovation in organizations, respectively to create the institutional context for development, implementation and diffusion of innovations;
  
• To equip students with the relevant knowledge on how innovation can be used in delivering public goods and managing public resources.

The syllabus of the course is available here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/11Si3a4Oo3pHOEfRK713zP0eJjnzNGDCcJq9ZXEoBb3U/edit?usp=sharing

Course description

The overall objective of the course is to familiarize students with the various ways in which the center-periphery relationship can be structured in an administrative system, focusing on factors determining this choice: administrative tradition in a country, external factors such as EU integration, and the broader administrative reform process. In the first part of the course we focus on decentralization and fundamental issues concerning the organization and functioning of local government and its relationship with central government. In the second part of the course, the emphasis is placed on developing the regional level (decentralized or not) and the European Union's regional policy. In the context of Romania, we are mainly interested in the impact structural funds have upon local and regional development. 

Learning objectives: At the end of the class the students should:

-          Be able to discuss the phenomenon of state rescaling at the international level, with emphasis on current trends;

-          Be able to describe and analyze administrative restructuring (with emphasis on regional level) in Romania and other CE states;

-          Have a clear understanding  of the evolution of regional development policy (cohesion policy) in Europe and how structural funds contribute to local and regional economic development’;

-           Be able to analyze the trends in EU cohesion policy in the medium and long run and their influence upon member states, especially Romania.

The course is designed to introduce students the study of the public policy cycle. In particular, the course examines the various methods of identifying and structuring public policy problems and issues, formulating and analyzing alternative responses, recommending policy actions for decision making, and designing and evaluating implementation plans and the means to monitor and evaluate the resulting policy outcomes.