Formalizarea și standardizarea procesului de elaborare a politicilor publice la nivelul Guvernului în România

Abstract

After 2005, the Romanian Government, through the General Secretariat of the Government, started a complex process for the development of a unitary and coherent legislative framework for reforming the public policy process of the public institutions from central level. This reform aimed to establish the institutions that would coordinate the public policy process, to develop the capacity of ministries to elaborate public policy documents, to create the rules and documents that would standardize this process, and, more difficult to achieve, to elaborate the budget of the ministries according the strategic objectives stated in the public policy documents. The article analyzes only two narrow aspects regarding this complex reforming process: (1) whether ministries use public policy documents to plan the strategies for addressing the issues from specific fields of activity, and (2) whether documents and rules that were newly established to ground a public policy are efficient in stimulating the ministries to prepare complex and detailed analyses that would contribute to identifying the best solutions for addressing the public problems. The article finds that, in general, the ministries do not use public policy documents to plan the strategic directions in their fields of activity, and that there is no uniform control over how ministries prepare the documents for grounding the public policy proposals and the drafts of policy regulations.