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. 23 No. 2, Winter 2023 – General issue  

ABSTRACT | This issue includes a collection of five papers. Raluca Alexandrescu's paper explores the intersection of environmental history and modernization in Romania, focusing on the politicization of nature during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Using two case studies of environmentalist civil servants, Nestor Urechia and Paula Grunau, Alexandrescu shows how nationalistic narratives surrounding deforestation and environmental protection were shaped by ideological connections, and how these ideas persist in modern patriotic discourses. In the second paper, Meta Novak and Damjan Lajh explore the consequences of growing professionalization in interest groups on member participation, particularly within the EU policymaking context. They argue that while professionalization improves lobbying efficiency, it negatively impacts member involvement, especially in non-economic groups, countering the EU’s intentions to promote democracy through increased public engagement in policymaking. The increased professionalization is linked to the implicit preference of EU institutions to interact with professionalized advocacy...
PAPERS

The Romanian Electoral Management Body: Between the Governmental Model and the Independent Model

This study examines the Romanian Electoral Management Body (EMB), focusing on its dualistic structure. It distinguishes between the formal independence and functional independence of electoral management institutions and proposes a qualitative evaluation of the Permanent Electoral Authority (AEP) and the Central Electoral Bureau (BEC). The analysis is anchored in the context of the three EMB... »

The Turkish Strategy in Libya: Ambitions, Challenges, and Limits. The Foreign Policy Evolution of a Regional Power

This paper analyzes the ambitions, challenges and limits of the contemporaneous Turkish strategy in Libya. The North African country has faced a state of insecurity, close to anarchy, since the NATO intervention that led, first to the fall of the Gaddafi regime (1969-2011), and then to his death. The objective of this research is to... »

The Impact of the Russian-Ukrainian War on European Security

The article aims to analyse the existing approaches to determining the impact of the Russian-Ukrainian war on European security and the scenarios of further involvement of Ukraine’s partners from both sides of the Atlantic in its protection. The most tangible consequences of the war for the European security environment are highlighted. Specific attention is paid... »

High Professionalisation, Low Participation? Comparing the Role of Members in Economic and Non-economic EU-level Interest Groups

This article addresses the role played by members of interest groups in their groups’ activities and lobbying. One characteristic of interest groups today is stronger professionalisation. In order to actively and efficiently advocate the interests of their members in EU policymaking, interest groups are relying ever more on their staff. Interest group scholars argue that,... »

Politicizing Nature. Environmental Political Thought in Romanian Modernity around 1900

The article starts from the general observation of a need in Romanian and central-east European literature of addressing from an environmental history lens the question of climate change and the narratives pushing the subject on the table of public policies, in a historical perspective. Drawing from the literature in the field and linking the environmental... »

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  • Bogdan Iancu
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