Author: Ana-Maria Nastase

 Pages: 91-99Introduction. Agencification is a strategy of vertical specialization of government institutions by delegating some attributions to specialized agencies. The National Institute of Administration has had a tumultuous past, being established, abolished, and re-established because it represented an ex-ante conditionality of the European Commission. Under Government Ordinance no. 23/2016, the Institute was re-established after a hiatus “by taking over the activities in the field of professional training in public administration and the professional development of public officials from the National Agency of Civil Servants and the regional centers for continuous training for local public administration”. After the completion of the…