The Romanian Journal of Political Science (PolSci) is the first Romanian peer-reviewed journal of political science edited and published twice a year by the Romanian Academic Society (SAR) on behalf of the Romanian community of political scientists.

The journal publishes a diverse range of political science articles, especially from fields currently under-covered, such as comparative politics, public policy, political economy, or political psychology, covering Romanian or broader Central or South - East European issues. Papers are theory-grounded and based on solid empirical work.
CURRENT ISSUE   Vol. 22 No. 2, Winter 2022 – General issue  

ABSTRACT | This general issue includes four articles: a comparative analysis of the performance of democratic regimes in dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic, a case study of the formation of the anti-corruption agency in Bulgaria, a case study of the meaning of a feminist Twitter hashtag in Turkey, and a bibliometric analysis of the literature on political socialization. The first article, by Mălina Voicu and Simona Maria Stănescu, compares the performance of political regimes in dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic. Using statistical data on mortality around the world during the pandemic, the authors argue that COVID mortality is significantly lower in advanced democracies, indicating that democracies have some advantages (preparedness, ability to cope with disasters, health outcomes) that, by comparison to non-democratic regimes, allow them to minimize the mortality rate. In the second article, Kristina Tsabala describes in detail the context that led to...
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  • Alina Mungiu-Pippidi (chair) Hertie School of Governance
  • Larry Diamond Stanford University
  • Tom Gallagher University of Bradford
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  • Dennis Deletant Georgetown University
  • Helen Wallace London School of Economics and Political Science

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  • Claudiu Tufiș
  • Bogdan Iancu
  • George Jiglau
  • Ingi Iusmen
  • Gabriel Bădescu
  • Andrei Macsut
  • Laura Voinea

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