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This article represents a brief theoretical overview of the contentious politics field. Its broad aim is to present the emergence of a research domain and of its basic characteristics. But, more importantly, the purpose ...

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...

The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict is an intractable conflict that has been the agenda of the international community for over two decades, has gone through sporadic outbreaks of violence, as well as multiple and failed peace...

The article analyses the impact the electoral system on the Romanian politics of the last 25 years. The main thesis is that, despite the eclecticism of electoral formulas and despite the frequent changes of the laws regu...

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 ...

In 2008, Romania instituted an electoral system that uses proportional methods for distributing seats to political parties and uninominal constituencies for assigning parliamentary seats to candidates. Uninominal constit...

The phenomenon of migration among Romanian doctors has particularly increased following Romania’s adhesion to the European Union. This study in an exploratory one and its aim is to thoroughly investigate the doctors´ ...

The present article aims at addressing the role played by media in influencing young people’s political and social attitudes. In an era where debates about minimal media effects are arousing, we want to analyse if and ...

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...

Over the past five decades there have been regionalization bills in Europe, more or less successful. The representative ones for the subject in question are those elaborated in Francophile and Francophone countries such ...

2012 election, which took place under exceptional political auspices, is generally considered atypical when compared to the other five post-communist local election cycles, the two reasons for this being the increased ci...

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...

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...

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...

The aim of this paper is to provide an overview of the most important theories on „brain drain” socio-economic effects both on sending and host countries. Therefore, all the main results of the analysis of three gene...

The Lisbon Treaty established the new institutions for the Common Foreign and Security Policy of European Union. A new structure is the European External Action Service (EEAS). The aim of this paper is to analyse the imp...

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...

The article analyzes the new electoral law voted and enacted in the spring of 2015, which reintroduced the plurinominal vote, regarding the election the senators and deputes, not by uninominal election, but by voting a p...

The intervention of the USSR, Poland, Bulgaria, the German Democratic Republic and Hungary in Czechoslovakia on the night of 20 to 21 August 1968 produced a huge shock in the international community, but also a deepening...

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...