THE NEED OF REGIONAL LEADERSHIP IN ROMANIA, AFTER 10 YEARS OF EU MEMBERSHIP
Autor (i): Associate Professor, Gabriela MARCHIS, PhD.
JEL: R50; R58; R59.
Cuvinte cheie: multi-level governance; sustainable development; leadership
Abstract:
The shift from “government” to “governance”, from traditional bureaucratic and hierarchical models of policymaking to the new models that are based on shared interests and cooperation that transcends various borders and takes many goals into consideration and involves active participation of different stakeholders that constantly evolve according to circumstances, has profound implication for the exercise of local and regional leadership. After 10 years of EU membership, Romania is still learning new policy content and ways of implementation. Meanwhile, the rapid change of European socio-economic environment, characterized by the way network membership and relationships adapt to changing circumstances imposed by the dynamics of globalized world, requires to learn different thinking and behavioral patterns and values. Regional development is a collective process that involves a wide range of networks of public and private actors. In order to achieve a cohesive and coherent regional development in Romania, it is very important to have the capacity of mobilizing different stakeholders for sustainable development. This requires to have the ability of building trust among different actors, developing new systems of cooperation and leading different kind of networks. In other words, it is necessary to enhance leadership in the context of regional development. The central idea underpinning this paper is that Romania needs to learn the lesson of leadership in the context of multi-level governance, which implies a more realistic and sensitive view of the complexity of local and regional development.
The shift from “government” to “governance”, from traditional bureaucratic and hierarchical models of policymaking to the new models that are based on shared interests and cooperation that transcends various borders and takes many goals into consideration and involves active participation of different stakeholders that constantly evolve according to circumstances, has profound implication for the exercise of local and regional leadership. After 10 years of EU membership, Romania is still learning new policy content and ways of implementation. Meanwhile, the rapid change of European socio-economic environment, characterized by the way network membership and relationships adapt to changing circumstances imposed by the dynamics of globalized world, requires to learn different thinking and behavioral patterns and values. Regional development is a collective process that involves a wide range of networks of public and private actors. In order to achieve a cohesive and coherent regional development in Romania, it is very important to have the capacity of mobilizing different stakeholders for sustainable development. This requires to have the ability of building trust among different actors, developing new systems of cooperation and leading different kind of networks. In other words, it is necessary to enhance leadership in the context of regional development. The central idea underpinning this paper is that Romania needs to learn the lesson of leadership in the context of multi-level governance, which implies a more realistic and sensitive view of the complexity of local and regional development.
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