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The official papers of the Romanian Communist Party came into possession of Army that had evacuated them form the Central Committee’s headquarters during December 1989 Revolution. Gen. (r) Nicolae Spiroiu, the minister...

This paper aims to present a brief history and the evolution of the alliance respectively - NATO, since its establishment wished to respect the fundamental principles such as democracy, security and defense. In a world w...

In this article author intends to identify positioning strategies of Vladimir Putin in presidential elections March 4, 2012. What is new for this election is that for the first time were installed Web cameras at 90.000 p...

Cohesion policy represents an important resource for the social and economic recovery of the member states. Through the Cohesion Fund absorption analysis during 2007-2013 financial period in Romania, I evaluate the effic...

This article analyzes a genuine, albeit insufficiently studied phenomenon: ”the sociological monography crisis” that appeared within the Gustian School between 1932-1934. The study of this crisis – which emerged ag...

This article aims at investigating whether Facebook fosters or not the crystallization of a European public sphere in Romania. The paper addresses three questions: What do we know about the European public sphere? How ca...

Elections and presidential campaign from November 2014 have produced in Romania a unique case study. In addition to specific electoral „bait“ of our lands were recovered virtual possibilities offered by current Inter...

The aim of our study was to conduct an analysis over the ballot that was held on 24-25 May in France, with emphasis on judging the results of the National Front, the group that won the elections, leaving behind both the ...

The presidential elections reflect the electoral support provided to various political leaders. One driver for voting is the citizens’ preference for specific features that leaders possess. This article aims to investi...

This article contains a case study over the 2012 presidential campaign in France. The author elucidates the political context, positioning techniques of the main candidates – Nicolas Sarkozy and Francois Hollande, basi...

The article represents an analysis of the 2016 local elections in the broader context of the paradigm of political change, which is dominant in the Romanian public space. The starting premise is that local elections coul...

Both disinformation and propaganda are basic means of manipulation in the Russian society, thus contributing to the electoral decision-making process, as well as to the consolidation of the „orchestrated democracy“.I...

This article will pursue the image of the National Agency of Integrity as outlined in the Mechanism for Cooperation and Verification reports from 2007 to 2015, through which we can identify the perception of the European...

The aim of this paper is to describe the process of Romanian collectivization between 1949-1962. The Communist Constitution from 1948 and the Land Reform from 1945 played also an important role to the Romanian collectivi...

The article represents an analysis of the 2014 presidential elections, trying to highlight the primary cause for the outcome of electoral competition, in which the certain favorite (the candidate of the SDP-NUPR-CP elect...

Women and men entering the 2014 presidential arena. Running a campaign on social media explores how the usage of social media in the electoral campaign supports or resists representation of conventional stereotypes of fe...

The article analyzes the specificities of Romanian hate speech over a period of twelve years through a qualitative analysis of 384 Decisions of the National Council for Combating Discrimination. The study employs a codin...

Almost all academics focus on major cities when it comes to analyze the local elections. The electoral process taking place in small villages of Romania does not capture the interest of the mainstream media. Therefore I ...

The presidential elections in Hunedoara county can be characterized once more as being atypical, the citizens’ vote disconcerted the pre-election predictions of the parties. There were reported only minor problems, sim...

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This article is dealing with Romanian electoral system from a different perspective analyzing those technical and legal components of an electoral law which are neglected in classical perspectives regarding electoral sys...

25 years after the first competitive elections, the Romanian party system still exhibits high levels of discontinuity between electoral competitions and governmental functioning. Despite the ongoing party consolidation p...

This paper examines how the party system in post-communist Romania has evolved following the nine rounds of parliamentary elections. Using Blondel’s classic explanatory model and, in addition, the ENP formula, the pape...

SYMPOSIUMLIBERTY OF FAITH AND CONSCIENCEBucharest, Parliament, 23rd June 2011ADDRESS OF The Apostolic NuncioArchbishop FRANCISCO-JAVIER LOZANODean of the Diplomatic Corps in Romania