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2018 Pecs J. Int'l & Eur. L. 54 (2018)
Increasing Efficiency in Public Administration through a Better System of Administrative Justice

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P6cs Journal of International and European Law - 2017/II


Increasing Efficiency in Public Administration Through

a  Better System of Administrative Justice


Mirlinda Batalli

Author, Full Professor at Faculty of Law, Prishtina University



Islam Pepaj
Corresponding  author, PhD candidate at the Faculty of Law, Prishtina University



This article seeks to examine the role of administrative justice in increasing the efficiency in public
administration. The article intends to analyze the connection between the capacity of judicial review of
administrative acts as  a crucial  instrument to improve  the functioning and  efficiency of the
administration and to ensure good governance in general.

The article raises the question how the judicial review of administrative decisions affects the level of
efficiency in public administration through increasing the legal security, prevention of arbitrariness and
raising public confidence?

There  is a causal  relation between administrative justice and the level of efficiency of public
administration, therefore the system of judicial review should be considered as the main mechanism to
promote  the main principles of good governance toward more efficient, transparent and accountable
decision making process.

Keywords:  Efficiency, administrative justice, judicial review, public administration, arbitrarily.




1.  Introduction


One  of the essential principles of public administration is reaching the efficiency at all levels of its
activity, in order to fulfill the citizen's requirements. Public administration is traditionally oriented
toward reaching the efficiency to achieve the objectives concerning the delivery of public services to
citizens. Efficiency is considered as the relationship between determined objectives and results that are
reached with minimum  resources and efforts. In general sense, the efficiency can be achieved under the
conditions of take advantage of the products of an administrative action in relation to the assets used.

The  efficiency of administration has  a direct connection with  all stages of reform  in public
administration such as modernization  of public services, computerization of public services and
interaction between administration and courts in the reviewing process of administrative acts before a
competent  court. Public administration in general and governments specifically play curtail role in the
administrative reform in order to increase the level of efficiency through offering better and more
qualified services, reducing the time for public officers and citizens, reducing the level of corruption,
increasing the awareness and trust of citizens on the work of administration, etc. Reform of public


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