Bureaucracy – Angel or Demon?

After the 1989 Revolution, for 20 years, the Romanian public administration from has gone through deep changes, and not always positive ones. According to the current thinking, the activity of public administration is negatively influenced by a series of factors such as corruption, politicizing and bureaucracy. From this list, without having an exhaustive enumeration, a phenomenon which people face more in the daily life is the bureaucracy. This paper aims at analyzing, firstly, the way in which bureaucracy influences the activity of the administration, and if this influence represents a negative factor or it is just the wrong perception of this phenomenon, and secondly, we will identify the means by which bureaucracy makes the public administration activity more efficient in Romania.