Browsing by Author "Leoveanu, Andy Constantin"

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Active Ageing in Inclusive Urban Social Innovation
(MDPI, 2025) Matei, Ani; Dobre, Alexandra Elena; Matei, Oana; Leoveanu, Andy Constantin
This article examines the convergence between active ageing, inclusive social innovation, and smart city development, proposing the concept of the Inclusive Urban Social Innovation Ecosystem (IUSIE) as a systemic framework for enhancing the quality of life for older adults in urban environments. The study explores how urban governance, digital transformation, and community-based collaboration can collectively support health, autonomy, and participation among ageing populations. Using a literature-based review combined with comparative analysis of recent international policy and innovation practices, the paper develops and validates three interconnected research hypotheses. These hypotheses address the role of IUSIE as a complex adaptive system for active ageing, the function of inclusive social innovation as a bridge between ageing processes and artificial intelligence, and the expression of smart city adaptability through urban inclusiveness. Case studies from Europe, Asia, and North America illustrate how age-friendly urban innovation is being pursued through participatory methods, technology-enabled services, and ecosystemic policy integration. The findings confirm that addressing active ageing in smart cities requires interdisciplinary, inclusive, and context-sensitive strategies. The IUSIE model offers an integrative perspective for designing urban environments that are not only technologically advanced but also socially responsive and longevity-ready.
Logical Pillars of the Public Decision. From the Logic of Cooperation to the Political Market
(Elsevier, 2013) Matei, Ani; Leoveanu, Andy Constantin
The logic of cooperation substantiates the strategic powers of the public agents and their coalitions, thus bringing contribution to understanding the political mechanisms which determine the public decision. The public bodies, derived from a process of political choice turn into account the logic of cooperation in view to establish own managerial structures. In most situations, the political cooperation will represent a consequence of negotiation, based on political programmes, their compatibility as well as the voting power of the actors/political agents. The political market will represent the support of political cooperation and public decision, thus contributing to understanding of social phenomena such as the political or electoral ones. The current paper aims to emphasise the logical mechanisms of public decision in the context of the necessity to create post electoral coalitions, aimed at maximization of the impact of political options of the electorate. The empirical examples will refer to the recent local elections in Bucharest Municipality. The main tool consists in the "voting power" of the political agents and the results will substantiate a theoretical framework aimed to highlight the logical and systemic connections of public decision with the political market. The research methods will take into consideration both documentation and theoretical analysis, empirical research, modelling and statistic interpretation.