The role of private regulation in achieving public sector transparency in Romania project

Research objective. To analyse in a comparative context the role of private sector regulation (coming from civil society organisations) in shaping local government transparency in Romania

Brief description. This project approaches the good regulation - the good practice of local government transparency nexus. On the normative level, it starts from the suggestion that top-down (central government) over-regulation of local government openness and transparency leads to limited local initiative and self-regulation and reduces the meaningfulness of co-operation and communication with different public stakeholders. Empirically, this discussion is contextualised via an analysis of information policy and practice in Romanian local government.

Timeframe: July 2016-July 2018

Financing: The project is financed by the Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu through grant LBUS-IRG-2016-02.

Project outputs:

Stănuș, C. 2023. Leaders, institutions, or context? Explaining local government compliance with transparency regulations in Romania. Romanian Journal of Political Science 22(1): 7-24. https://www.ceeol.com/search/article-detail?id=1136295 

Stănuș, C. 2022. Under Construction: Local Government Transparency in a New Democracy. Filosofija. Sociologija. 33(2). https://doi.org/10.6001/fil-soc.v33i2.4713.