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Minorities And Ethnic Politics

 ABSTRACT | This issue of Polsci opens a series of issues reflecting how EU meets unfinished transitions. We start with minorities and ethnic politics, issues which featured considerably less on the agenda of previous enlargements. We will continue with a conference on lessons from the current enlargement for former Soviet Union and the Balkans, to celebrate SAR's tenth anniversary in July 2005. The main focus will be on Moldova, Ukraine and the Western Balkans. Interesting times are unfolding - again - and we are happy to publish good contributions making them intelligible...
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Minorities And Ethnic Politics


The recent elections in Ukraine and Romania, as well as the invitation to join the European Union extended in 2003 to Croatia and Turkey have put some strain on some of the most common assumptions regarding the relation between democratization and European conditionality. After many rounds of free and fair elections, Romania, which is well... »
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Does Tolerance Kill? The Hungarian Minority in Romania: A Case Study

The starting point for this research was the disturbingly high rate of suicide among Hungarians in Harghita. The initial impulse was to connect this fact with the minority status of Hungarians in Romania and with the problem of tolerance. However, Romania is internationally recognized as meeting the criteria of tolerance with respect to its ethnic... »

Pre-Accession, Naturalisation and ‘Due Regard to Community Law’

Altough the EU Commission holds the necessary tools to determine the candidate countries in the recent enlargement to resolve the citizenship issue, sometimes the conclusions were drawn on other basis than those resulted from the monitorization process. The examples of Latvia and Estonia are both contradictory and presented as successes for the process. When one... »

The Effects Of Interregional Wage Differentials On Linguistic Heterogeneity

Explanations of the ethnic composition of local labor markets usually focus on the role of community and political choices in minority policy rather than on that of economic factors. We propose to contribute to this literature by inquiring about the effect that voluntary labor migration driven by income differentials has on minority groups. We focus... »
PAPERS

Putin Running The Duma: A Quest for Stability, Regardless of Democratization

The institutional change on the level of Executive-Legislative relationships initiated through the Putin Presidency, although less visible than the prolonged stand-offs between Yeltsin and the Congress or the consequences related to the adoption of the 1993 Constitution, is apt to produce results at least as spectacular. Certainly some of the features of the Putin presidency... »

A ‘Grammar of Exculpation’ in Communist Historiography: Distortion of The History of The Holocaust Under Ceausescu

This aim of this article is to show how the history of the Holocaust was distorted by communist historiography during the Ceausescu regime in Romania. To this aim, the author conducts a content analysis on a representative sample of history books published in Romania during the 1970s and the 1980s and examines the main patterns... »

2004 Romanian Elections: Test Case for a True Romanian Democracy

The article analysis the development and results of the November 2004 presidential and parliamentary elections in Romania. In the first part, it is argued that elections were free, but unfair, because of the control exercised by the party in government over state and media agencies, because of allegations of electoral frauds and because of an... »

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