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    La comunicación interna y externa de las administraciones públicas es de alta importancia para asegurar la calidad, eficiencia y eficacia de prestar los servicios. Sea por la coordinación interna del trabajo, que pavear el camino para más innovación y cooperación entre los empleados, o por la interacción con los usuarios/público, cuyos inputs, opiniones y observaciones contribuyen al desarrollo de la institución, la comunicación es un ámbito que debe ser considerado cuando se habla de las reformas del trabajo público.       Tal como Talavera (en Pastor, 2001: 255) nota «la organización no puede sobrevivir como un ente aislado de lo que le rodea ya que en función de ese entorno, que produce unas exigencias, definirá su misión, políticas y objetivos, estableciendo con él una interacción continua». Por esto, las organizaciones no solamente deben establecer un buen mecanismo de comunicación interno, sino también un mecanismo de co...

      Prime Minister Abdullah Al Nsour responded to the Jordanian parliament's demands to  break off relations with the Israeli state with a clarification that relations with Israel is an issue related to sovereignty, stressing that any decision to change Jordanian-Israeli relations would mean abolishing the Peace Treaty signed between the two countries in the 90s. His Excellency’s remarks raise an important question, and a series of related questions: what does he mean with a sovereign decision? Does not sovereignty mean the manifestation of the will of people through their governments? Does not the parliament represent the people? Or is it only meant to pass, amend and propose laws? Is the Peace-Treaty a holy script that cannot be reconsidered? Is it logical to abide by agreements that were penned decades ago, when circumstances and conditions are very different at the present time? I am not proposing that the peace deal be annulled, ...

Jordanian Parliament   Jordan has been on a path towards democracy and good governance for the past two decades. The National Covenant of 1991 came after  a ban of nearly 30 years on political parties, following the events of 1957 and the confrontation between leftists and pan-Arabists with the regime. Parliamentary work was also frozen after the 1967 war and the resulting state of emergency. Democracy saw its way back in 1989 with the celebration of general elections, and two years later, the reconciliation between the regime and the opposition that took form in the National Covenant. The Covenant served as a starting point towards political plurality and reviving party life; it led to the 1992 Political Parties Law which served as a new clean slate for relations between parties and the regime. Of importance was the Jordanian vision of a gradual transformation into a full democracy where cabinets are the product of parliamentary elections, formed by the winni...