Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- I Contemporary American Society and Politics
- II Ideologia Americana or Americanism in Action: Transatlantic Encounters
- III Ideologia Americana or Americanism in Action: Foreign Policy
- IV Ideologia Americana or Americanism in Action: Impact of American Values
- Lack of Arguments or a Common Sense: Reasons of the U.S. Supreme Court's Preferences to International Community in the Process of Constitutional Interpretation
- American Private Foundations: Global Philanthropy or Global Hegemony
- William Thomas Stead and His 1901 Vision of the Americanized World
- The United State's Influence in the Legal Systems of Eastern Europe: Romania's Right to a Good Administration
- American Concept of Federal Union and Its Worldwide Influence
- V Ideologia Americana or Americanism in Action: Exceptionalism and Democracy Promotion
- VI Continuity and Change
The United State's Influence in the Legal Systems of Eastern Europe: Romania's Right to a Good Administration
from IV - Ideologia Americana or Americanism in Action: Impact of American Values
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 September 2014
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- I Contemporary American Society and Politics
- II Ideologia Americana or Americanism in Action: Transatlantic Encounters
- III Ideologia Americana or Americanism in Action: Foreign Policy
- IV Ideologia Americana or Americanism in Action: Impact of American Values
- Lack of Arguments or a Common Sense: Reasons of the U.S. Supreme Court's Preferences to International Community in the Process of Constitutional Interpretation
- American Private Foundations: Global Philanthropy or Global Hegemony
- William Thomas Stead and His 1901 Vision of the Americanized World
- The United State's Influence in the Legal Systems of Eastern Europe: Romania's Right to a Good Administration
- American Concept of Federal Union and Its Worldwide Influence
- V Ideologia Americana or Americanism in Action: Exceptionalism and Democracy Promotion
- VI Continuity and Change
Summary
In Eastern Europe the United States was understood during 1945 to 1989 as an issue of liberty, and as a consequence of this, every philosophical and political concept adopted by Washington was considered as supreme truth. In 1990 it was time to discover and to apply a lot of concepts that represented for the United States (first) and the European Union (second) human rights. One of those rights was the right to a good administration. It was adopted first by European Union, and, after 1990, by the rest of former communist Europe. It was adopted because the USA's influence in promoting democracy was huge and because states understood that a real democracy must be closer to the citizens. The paper will try to answer some questions such as: Was the right to a good administration an expression of the USA in Eastern Europe or of the European Union in this part of the continent? Is the right to a good administration is the same in the USA as in Eastern Europe, or is it necessary for people and governments from this part of the world to adapt this concept to a particular situation? For all of these questions every state of Eastern Europe must provide its own answer, but our text will try to give an answer from Bucharest.
1. For the text it is important to explain a few notions, because our research cannot be understood without them.
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- The United States and the WorldFrom Imitation to Challenge, pp. 263 - 270Publisher: Jagiellonian University PressPrint publication year: 2009