Issue № 18. March 2009

National Administration vs. Private Foreign Investors

Graduate student, Faculty of Public Administration, National School of political Sciences and Public Administration, Buharest.

The article is devoted to one of the modern tendencies in public administration — signing contracts with private investors in almost all domains of administration. To better understand this idea and give an answer the author first examines private intervention in the period of dictatorship and then tries to determine some of the principles of private intervention in democracy. As the 1990s brought democracy to the forefront of political discourse (1945–1989 being ideological conflict years), the author determines what is politically correct1 in the area. According to the author the problem should be regarded in two aspects — discussing domestic and foreign investors separately. The author tries to define a set of rules for dealing with those two groups of investors.

Keywords

Democracy, dictatorship, public property, private intervention, contracts, administrative legislation, intervention boundaries.