Democrație și birocrație în politicile publice: factori de analiză critică și evaluare în contextul Republicii Moldova [Articol]

Abstract

This approach, inspired by general systems theory and policy science thinking, allows for a holistic understanding of how political, administrative and social factors influence policy outcomes. Thus, we can explicitly mention that public policies are variables dependent on numerous political-administrative and social factors, especially when a systemic approach to the state-society relationship is maintained. In other words, the performance of a policy (the output for society, in the form of public services or the implementation of public solutions through programs) depends to a large extent on the organizational behavior of both the political sub-system (governmental) and the administrative sub-system(public bureaucracy), as well as on the way in which they interact in the state-society as a whole. At the global level, the issue of the effectiveness of public policies is closely linked to the current challenges of governance. Many democracies are facing an erosion of public trust in institutions, fueled by „anti-politics” corruption, abuse of power, and inefficiency, which currently generates a state of crisis in legitimacy and representativeness.