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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 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 ...

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...

Censorship is one of the most important defense mechanisms of a State’s ideology or political system. By controlling the information sources, auditors are able to ensure the optimal functioning of the system they defen...

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 article explores specific intersections within the gender, politics and media triangle in order to better understand the positioning of media in regards to political representation of women. The broad theoretical umb...

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...

Review of: Rob Salmond, „Parliamentary Question Times. How Legislative Accountability Mechanism Affect Mass Political Engagement“

Based on the European Integration paradigm, the present paper aims to elaborate a set of prescriptions for the Romanian economic policy that would integrate the principles of circular economy. The hypothesis of this anal...

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 ...

In this paper I hold that the European social policy is an incentive for the qualitative leap of the European Union towards a well-ordered society, characterized by an overlapping consensus. I will follow Rawls’ accoun...

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...

Review of: René Guénon, Autoritate spirituală și putere temporală

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 Eastern Question posed by the decaying Ottoman Empire re-emerged after the Sultan defeated Russia with the aid of his Western allies, along with the notion that a buffer state between Austria, Russia and Turkey could...

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...

Beside any political explanation, the only think that have remained constant, in the last 25 years of electoral campaings in Romania, was the cleavage between two different visions regarding developing the Romanian socie...

The mean value of happiness in the former communist countries in the European Union is considerably lower than the mean value of happiness in Western European countries. Nostalgia for the former totalitarian regimes has ...

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...