Comparative Aspects Regarding the Management of Swiss and Romanian Local Public Services. Neuchatel and Suceava Cases

Abstract

The idea from which we start in our scientific route is that, in order to satisfy the community members’ needs, the local public administrations have to ensure the provision of local public services of the quality and quantity required by the customer-citizens. On this basis, we intend in this article to treat considerations of comparative nature, aiming at the management of Swiss and Romanian local public services. The analyses of the management of local public services in the two local administrative structures involves, first of all, the outlining of the content and significance that local public service receives in the literature. Our approach continues by putting face to face the management met in the sector of local public services in Switzerland and Romania, with particularization at the level of Neuchatel Canton and Suceava County, in order to highlight possible similarities found in the two administrations in question. Amid those set out in this work, we are entitled to affirm that, although there are found elements specific to each of the two analysed systems of local public services, however, considerable similarities will be emphasized during our scientific route.