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Recruitment of technocrats in Romanian cabinets

Not long ago, Romania was run by a cabinet of “technocrats”, ministers with no party affiliation, most of them with a good professional reputation. That was not the first time Romania welcomed “experts” or “technocrats” in the cabinet, but it was for the first time when the government was “genetically” assembled to include only experts and to have no connection with any political party. The paper looks back at the history of technocratic recruitments in Romanian cabinets in order to put this recent episode in perspective. There is no solid theoretical framework to provide a general explanation on why and under what circumstances experts rather than party politicians are called to run ministerial portfolios. This is why the paper puts forward a list of possible factors that may be at work in these cases and illustrates the impact some of them had in the formation of Romania cabinets over more than twenty four years (May 1990 to November 2015).