CONSIDERATIONS REGARDING THE BIUNIVOCAL DETERMINATION BETWEEN ADMINISTRATIVE LAW AND FREEDOM OF CONSCIENCE AND ITS ROLE IN ACHIEVING GOOD GOVERNANCE

Abstract

Considerations Regarding the Biunivocal Determination between Administrative Law and Freedom of Conscience and its Role in Achieving Good Governance.
The purpose of this paper is to bring to the public’s attention a new vision of the concepts of good administration and good governance in Romanian society and beyond. The essence of this vision is based on the idea of moving away from the perspective in which public authorities in general, and the structural elements of the public administration system in particular, are regarded as solely responsible for applying the principle of good administration and for achieving good governance — or, conversely, for defective administration — towards a perspective in which greater citizen involvement is required. This involvement concerns the activity of defining the social purpose, identifying the mechanisms for its materialization, and establishing a partnership between the elements of the public administration system and the structural forces of civil society, based on the idea of making civil society as a whole, and each citizen individually, responsible in relation to the social purpose to be achieved. The first subdivision of the paper is a motivation regarding the choice of the topic. The choice was determined by the social reality of the year 2025, both globally and in Romania, a reality characterized by a restless, even agitated society, the cause of this unrest being only to a very small extent natural phenomena and to a very large extent human action dominated by violence and egocentrism. The second subdivision is devoted to the right to good administration as a starting point in defining good administrative conduct. The third subdivision analyzes in correlation the concepts of good administrative conduct and freedom of conscience, emphasizing that between the two there exists a relationship of biunivocal determination. The next to last subdivision presents several aspects concerning the biunivocal determination between administrative law and freedom of conscience, with emphasis on the importance of this type of relationship for achieving the social purpose and good governance. The final part of the paper summarizes the defining ideas for the new perspective on the right to good administration, good administrative conduct, and good governance.