The Ombudsman Institution: Alternative Justice?

The volume edited by Dacian-Cosmin Drago and Bogdana Neam u is welcomed in the area of scienti c literature regarding the complex issues surrounding the institution of the Ombudsman. In fact, it is known, and this volume emphasizes it, that the debates regarding this institution can be integrated in the wider theoretical sphere of issues regarding the principles of good governance, the problematic relation between the various state institutions and the relation between these institutions, and the citizen. This volume comes as a corollary of the research project nanced by CNCSIS1 between 2008 and 2011, and reunites prestigious researchers from Romania, The Netherlands, Canada, Belgium, France, Great Britain, Argentina and South Africa, whose contribution is uni ed by the scienti c strictness of the Public Administration Department at Babe -Bolyai University.