Prague Economic Papers 2009, 18(1):26-37 | DOI: 10.18267/j.pep.339

Some notes about decentralization process implications on public administration corruption in romania

Tudorel Andrei1, Ani Matei2, Stelian Stancu3, Bogdan Oancea4
1 Academy for Economic Studies, Bucharest (andreitudorel@yahoo.com).
2 National School of Political Studies and Public Administration, Bucharest (amatei@snapa.ro).
3 Academy for Economic Studies, Bucharest (stelian_stancu@yahoo.com).
4 Artifex University, Bucharest (oanceab@ie.ase.ro).

The paper investigates some features of the corruption in the public administration in a country, which is in the process of integrating into the new structures of the European Union. We estimated the parameters of a regression model that analyses factors like political system pressure, administration transparency, and service quality provided by civil servants using data sets for a representative civil servants sample. Using the regression model and ANOVA we came to the conclusion, that the perception of the corruption has significant differences at the level of the four types of public administration institutions analysed in this paper. The main result is that the corruption level in the public administration is negatively influenced by the stability of the remuneration system, by the lack of transparency and by the political system pressure. On the other hand, church, media, and schools have a positive influence on the reduction of the corruption level.

Keywords: econometric models, corruption analysis, public administration
JEL classification: C01, C13, H83

Published: January 1, 2009  Show citation

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Andrei, T., Matei, A., Stancu, S., & Oancea, B. (2009). Some notes about decentralization process implications on public administration corruption in romania. Prague Economic Papers, 18(1), 26-37. doi: 10.18267/j.pep.339
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