Abstract:
The public administration communication is a type of mass communication which
involves the dissemination of public information to citizens and the receiving of an efficient
feedback in the form of an active participation in decision-making processes that concerns that
community. Citizens not only have access to information concerning drafted legislation to be
debated by central and local public administrative bodies, but they are also invited to participate
to the administrative decisions, getting actively involved in the process. Our paper aims to
analyze how the communication of public administration is regulated by Romanian law and
which difficulties occur on putting into practice legal provisions. We argue that the distance
between the letter of the law and its spirit must be covered by the ethic liability of participants in
the communication between public servants and citizens.
