THE RECONFIGURATIONS OF THE ADMINISTRATIVE-TERRITORIAL ORGANIZATION OF ROMANIA AND THEIR IMPACT ON THE EVOLUTION OF REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT POLICY AFTER 1989

Abstract

The main objective of this study is to analyze the evolution of Romania’s administrative-territorial organization and study the impact of each stage on the regional development process after 1989 in order to identify national features that could contribute to the improvement of Romania’s current regionalization process.
Starting from the premise that any proposal for Romanian regionalization must be based on a rigorous research of the historical context in which the territorial administrative reconfigurations took place, the present study aims to present a synthetic analysis of different territorial configurations proposed by various regimes as well as the political and social circumstances in which they were implemented.