Download or read book Democratic Consolidation and Europeanization in Romania written by Sergiu Mişcoiu and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2021-09-07 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is a multi-dimensional analysis of Romania’s political, economic, cultural and societal transformation after 1989. It synthetically depicts the main stages of the processes of democratic transition and consolidation, as well as the subsequent phenomena of Europeanization, but also the series of more recent democratic setbacks that affected the Romanian society. The overall perspective is integrative, providing the reader with a balanced and complete understanding of Romania’s post-communist challenges without being spared of the most sensitive aspects. The volume gathers the contributions of some of the most distinguished experts in different sub-fields of transition studies, including political systems, societal transformations, minority rights, macro-economic dynamics, and foreign policy.
Download or read book Democratic Transition and Consolidation in Romania written by Dragos Dragoman and published by Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften. This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book compares essential factors for democratization in Romania. It focuses on citizens' democratic resources and on political elites' behavior. It highlights the role played by ordinary citizens in the contention of populist elites and their succesful effort of keeping Romania democratic, in comparison with other East European countries.
Download or read book Revolution democratic transition and disillusionment written by Anca Pusca and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2018-04-30 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book develops a fresh and challenging perspective on the transition from communism to capitalism. Drawing on a wide and diverse range of material and texts, it argues that transition and democratisation studies should turn their attention towards processes of illusion formation and disillusionment as key to understanding the shift from one ideological framework to another. The author provides alternative approaches to otherwise classical sites of examination of social change – such as revolutions and the emergence of civil society – and proposes a number of new possible sites by analysing the politics of self-reflection, the element of shock inherent in any transition and the role of visual narratives in negotiating change. The chapters are inspired by unique interviews and discussions with the leaders of the Timisoara Revolution, the Group of Social Dialogue – the first civil society organisation in post-communist Romania, the leading author of the 'Presidential Report Analysing the Communist Dictatorship in Romania' and an innovative group of photographers tracing the Romanian transition through images.
Download or read book The success of political transition in Estonia Czech Republic and Romania written by Christian Vogel and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2007-06-08 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2005 in the subject Politics - Region: Eastern Europe, grade: 1,0, University of Tartu (Center of Baltic Studies), course: Post-communist transition and Estonian experience, language: English, abstract: 1. Introduction After having discussed major theoretical approaches regarding political transition as far as post-communist countries are concerned in the first stage, it is due to fill this theoretical framework with examples and figures. Being aware of some common steps every country, which finds itself in a transitional process, has to undertake in order to establish a functioning democracy, the theory also shows that the course as well as the success towards the before said goal might be completely different. Against this background, the main aim of the current research is a comparison of three former communist states, namely Estonia, Czech Republic and Romania, regarding their progress of the transitional process up to the present moment, thereby mainly focusing on political aspects. In doing so, one has to realise that the evaluation of political transition is much more complicated than assessing economical transition for example, because neither success nor failure of can be just displayed in figures as it might be possible for economical issues. However, theory has been proofing that one can not assess developments of countries in transition while only focusing on economical outcomes. Even the neo liberal hardliner and American scientist and philosopher Francis Fukuyama has been admitting in his recent publication “States-Building”, that creating states under the rule of law is even more important than free markets . In respect to that, this work tries to use the few measures existing in order provide an objective comparative analysis. In addition to that it should be evaluated in what way the opportunity to join international organisations (NATO and especially the European Union) has been boosting political transition in the above mentioned countries. Moreover it should be found out whether there is a connection between successful transition and deeper European integration. For that matter, the first part compares general developments of political transition. The second part is analysing developments of the three countries regarding their way towards NATO and EU accession, which has in fact both become reality for Estonia and ČR. The last part tries to provide a conclusion about the outcomes of the (political) transition process as well as to point out remaining problems which are still due to resolve.
Download or read book Quantitative Estimation in Democratic Consolidation written by Silviu Petru Grecu and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Institutional transparency, the equilibrium of parliamentary parties, development of civil society and economic growth are the critical conditions of Romanian democratic transitional process. Political parties and electoral competition between political actors represent Romanian minimal condition of democracy. In this context, for speaking about democratic consolidation in Romanian political system we have to underline, for political decedents and for civic community, the major role played by all these critical conditions of transition. A mix analytical strategy, which is based on normative reflection, social and political anthropology, contemporary political history and a mathematical discreet design, can be a good way of understanding and explaining political changes. The aim of this article is to create a comprehensive analytical model for democratic transition, focused on a case study, for understanding the main particularities of eastern democratic transition. In this meaning, the methodological design of research is focused on quantitative-multivariate models - the graphs and networks theory - for observing the minimum and critical routes/ways of Romanian democratic transition. For creating a general radiography of systems dynamic, we are interpreting all these statistical correlations and mathematical models in social and political terms. This research is anchored in systemic paradigm of political sciences and wants to underline the complexity and the elementary conditions of a social and political process.
Download or read book Democratic Transition and Disillusionment written by Anca Mihaela Pusca and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Problems of Democratic Transition and Consolidation written by Juan J. Linz and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 1996-08-16 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 5. Actors and contexts
Download or read book Post Communist Romania written by D. Light and published by Springer. This book was released on 2001-02-02 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on contributions from various disciplines, this up to date collection analyses Romania's experiences of the transition from the harsh realities of the Ceausescu dictatorship to the uncertainties of the efforts to consolidate democracy and introduce a market economy. With its focus on Romania's progress in coming to terms with the legacy of its communist past, the realities of pluralism, the introduction of a market economy and the challenge of European integration, the volume will be key reading for academics, students and practitioners interested in transition and Romania.
Download or read book Importing Democracy from Abroad written by Marius I. Tătar and published by Marius Ioan Tatar. This book was released on 2006 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract: This study assesses the relation between foreign aid and the contribution of civil society to the consolidation of democracy in Romania. Drawing on questionnaire data as well as internal documents the study specifically looks at the impact of international assistance on the participation of advocacy groups in the governmental policymaking process. On the one hand, it is shown that international assistance enhances the capacity of NGOs to mobilize advocacy coalitions and this in turn increases the effectiveness of their participation in influencing policymaking. But on the other hand, democracy assistance programs have a rather paradoxical effect by impeding NGOs' civic engagement with their domestic constituencies. Hence, international assistance has a mixed impact on the contribution of civil society to the consolidation of democracy: it fosters advocacy groups' "link-up" to the governmental decision-makers while in the same time it hinders their "link-down" to ordinary people
Download or read book Unseen Obstacles to Democratic Consolidation written by Andreea Florescu and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Democratic Consolidation in Eastern Europe Volume 2 International and Transnational Factors written by Jan Zielonka and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2001-06-14 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the second volume in a two-volume series of books on democratic consolidation in Eastern Europe. The first volume focused on the issue of institutional engineering. This second volume analyses the external parameters of democratic consolidation in thirteen Eastern European countries: how different international actors and various economic, cultural and security types of transnational pressures have shaped democratic politics in the region. The aim is to contrast a set of democracy theories with empirical evidence accumulated in Eastern Europe over the last ten years. The volume tries to avoid complex debates about definitions, methods and the uses and misuses of comparative research. Instead it seeks to establish what has really happened in the region, and which of the existing theories are helpful in explaining these developments. The volume is divided into two parts. The first part presents a conceptual and comparative frame of analysis, the second consists of detailed studies of individual countries undergoing democratic consolidation. Case study chapters deal with the following countries: Estonia and Latvia, Hungary, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Romania, Bulgaria and Macedonia, the states of former Yugoslavia, Belarus and Ukraine, and finally Russia. The concluding chapter identifies a set of variables responsible for the enormous impact of external factors on democratic consolidation in Eastern Europe. It conceptualises the interplay of internal and external factors impinging upon democracy, and shows the interplay of different positive and negative types of external pressures. It also evaluates the conscious Western effort to craft or engineer democracy in Eastern Europe.
Download or read book Democratic Transitions written by Sujian Guo and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-03 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Democratic transitions have occurred in many countries in various regions across the globe, such as Southern Europe, Latin America, Africa, East and Southeast Asia, Eastern Europe and the Middle East, and these nations have undergone simuntaneously political, economic and social transformations. Yet, the patterns and characteristics of transitions have varied significantly, and different modes of transition have resulted in different outcomes. This book offers cross-national comparisons of democratic transition since the turn of the twentieth century and asks what makes democracies succeed or fail. In doing so it explores the influence the mode of transition has on the longevity or durability of the democracy, by theoretically examining and quantitatively testing this relationship. The authors argue that the mode of transition directly impacts the success and failure of democracy, and suggest that cooperative transitions, where opposition groups work together with incumbent elites to peacefully transition the state, result in democracies that last longer and are associated with higher measures of democratic quality. Based on a cross-national dataset of all democratic transitioning states since 1900, this book will be of great interest to students and scholars of international politics, comparative politics and democracy, and democratization studies.
Download or read book Romanian democratic consolidation in comparative perspective written by Teodor Viorel Stan and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Perspectives on Democratic Consolidation in Central and Eastern Europe written by Dirk Berg-Schlosser and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume consists of twenty studies on problems related to "transition to democracy" in central and eastern Europe during the decade following the collapse of communist states. The book focuses on preconditions and problems of transitions, case studies, patterns of performance and consolidation and inter-regional comparative aspects.
Download or read book The Challenges of Transition written by Vladimir Pasti and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A detailed political, economic, and social analysis of Romania in recent years, this book examines reasons for the failure of both political revolution and internal transition.
Download or read book An Examination of the Political Transformations of Poland Romania and Belarus After the Fall of the Soviet Union written by Yuliya Brel and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When communist regimes in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and in the former Soviet Union collapsed, the general expectation was that the countries in the region would move in the direction of democratization. Almost thirty years later, it is clear that the establishment of democratic forms of government in the CEE states and the former Soviet Union is far from ubiquitous. Some countries did democratize and even managed to consolidate those democracies; others built semi-democratic regimes, while still others went full circle and consolidated their authoritarianism. This dissertation is a comparative case study of post-communist development in Poland, Romania, and Belarus along the dimension of civil society. It employs Ronald Inglehart's theory of modernization and post-modernization to analyze the connection between economic development and democracy, and to determine whether civil society was a prerequisite for successful democratization, or whether it could emerge over time due to other factors. It also explores the idea of whether strong national consciousness (or the absence of it) could be another possible explanatory factor of the countries' divergent post-communist trajectories. The analysis confirms that economic development alone is not a sufficient condition for a successful transition from authoritarianism to democracy. It also finds that the presence of a vibrant civil society is not always a requisite condition for the initiation of a democratic transition. Civil society is, however, required for the consolidation and sustainability of democracy. Finally, the findings suggest that the strength of nationhood, ethnic or civic, might have exerted a significant impact on the trajectory of the countries' post-communist development.
Download or read book Modern Romania written by Tom Gallagher and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2005-06 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the 1989 fall of Communism in Eastern Europe, Romania, arguably the most regimented of states in the Soviet bloc, has struggled with the transition from totalitarian state to democratic nation. In this insightful examination of modern Romania, Tom Gallagher provides an overview of Romania’s unique political and social history, focusing on both its national identity as well as the legacy of Soviet rule. Gallagher provides an in-depth look at Romania since 1989, focusing on the government’s attempts at economic reform, engagement with democracy, problems with corruption among the ruling elite, as well as the weakness of civil society and the resilience of implacable expressions of nationalism. Ultimately, Gallagher argues that thus far democracy has essentially failed in Romania. In fact, he warns that Romania is on its way to becoming one of the most unequal states in Europe and quite possibly a future trouble-spot unless efforts to resume much-needed reforms are undertaken.
