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War and the hybrid threat are two types of activities legally differentiated only by the word „war”. They aim at exploiting and generating vulnerabilities of the target states and have become areas of reflection to i...

This article analyzes how political prisoners from communist Romania survived after release. They don’t allow rejoining in jobs had before imprisonment, and their families suffered regime oppression to. Authorities mon...

The present research has as a goal the valuation of oral and non-oral aggressiveness in the discursive strategies used by the Members of the Romanian Parliament in the context of an acute political crisis. The analytical...

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 paper begins with the premise that the issue of the relationship between the concept and the political reality in the case of ideology can be explained by using the analysis of two important terms pertaining to cont...

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 ...

The theoretical debate on democracy for a longer period is one of the most dynamic debates within the political sciences, associated with plenty of controversies and paradoxes in terms of lack of consistent principles of...

Crisis of the political mass parties does not necessarily mean party crisis. They buy new strength from the always narrowest relationship which entertain with the state institutions. Parties go back to be of the élites ...

The main purpose of this article is to analyse the evolution of the Romanian political parties from the perspective of their performance in the three rounds of European elections that ever took place in Romania: 2007, 20...

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...

In our study we analyzed the evolution of political rights in Spain and Romania. The constitutional evolution of women’s political rights regulation is similar. Beyond the political discourse, concrete legislative mea...

In Romanian post-communist political system acts some minor political parties, with low electoral support, but with parliamentary representation, due to their major partner parties. Despite their minor status, these poli...

This article analyzes the post-communist Romanian political system from a dual perspective, the formal, institutional one and the functional, political perspective. The main novelty posited by the article is the concept ...

The paper draws upon two texts authored by Moses Mendelssohn and Immanuel Kant. They both address the question on the meaning and significance of Aufklärung raised by Berlinische Monatsschrift (1783-1784). Seemingly, th...

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 I address women’s political representation, predominantly as reflected in feminist political theories. I introduce several conceptual clarifications, between „gender interests” and „women’s poli...

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...

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...

In the present paper we investigate a somewhat uncanny relationship between Cartesian philosophy and political patterns. One of the central questions here will be why did Descartes choose to minimize the impact of politi...

This article explores the political aspects of national minority identity by analyzing the discourse of the political representative of the Hungarian minority in post-communist Romania (the Democratic Union of Hungarians...