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Vol. 15, no. 2, Winter 2015 – General issue

 ABSTRACT | PolSci Volume 15, number 2 (Winter 2015) comprises articles which deal with themes such as political party funding, recruitment in the civil service and Euroscepticism. The first article deals with the issue of financing political parties in Slovakia. The second explores the revolution-evolution dilemma in military affairs. The third article suggests an association between institutional veto power creating political constraints, and the discretionary fiscal policy reaction of governments during the economic crisis of 2008. The fourth investigates the effect of political competition on the rate of government expenditure growth using...
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The System of Political Party Funding as a Sign of Weakly Institutionalized Party System in Slovakia

This text deals with the issues of the financing of the political parties in Slovakia. We are coming out of the assumption that the Slovak system of the political party funding is based on the multi-funding, but the contributions from the government budget will form the most dominant source of the income. This system negatively... »

Evolutionary Reality of the Revolution in Military Affairs: Results of a Comparative Study

Revolution in Military Affairs has been one of the driving concepts for creating modern armed forces capable of coping with the challenges of a contemporary security environment. Revolutionary change in military affairs has been interpreted as discontinuous, radical, non-incremental, and even disruptive change. Evolutionists, however, oppose this view and stress that past military transformations were... »

Political Constraints and Discretionary Fiscal Policy during the Recent Economic Crisis

Political institutions have been found to be the source of many policy differences between countries. Elaborating on earlier work in this tradition, this article will suggest an association between institutional veto power creating political constraints, and the discretionary fiscal policy reaction of governments during the economic crisis of 2008. It will be argued that the... »

Political Competition Impacts on Government Expenditure Growth: an Evidence from OECD Countries

Political competition is defined as the level of control held by individual political parties as captured by the measures of effective number of parties, number of parliamentary parties, etc. This paper investigates the effect of political competition on the rate of government expenditure growth using competing theories and panel data from 21 OECD countries. In... »

Narratives of European Politics in the Czech Republic: A Big Gap between Politicians and Experts

The low interest in the political questions of European integration in Central and Eastern European countries which has sometimes lead to apathy, and in some cases to increasing Euroscepticism among the citizens, can perhaps be partially explained by the lack of expertise and interest among politicians. This paper analyses data on the level of knowledge... »

Challenges in Recruitment Procedures in the Georgian Civil Service

The aim of this article is to examine the current tendency of recruitment in the civil service in Georgia in the light of the wave of dismissals after the 2012 parliamentary elections and highlight the common problems that are characteristic for competitions in state organizations. Based on data collected during the research, the article claims... »
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Cass R. Sunstein, Choosing not to Choose: Understanding the Value of Choice

Cass R. Sunstein, Choosing not to Choose: Understanding the Value of Choice (Oxford University Press,... »
CALL FOR PAPERS | Call for Papers – Romanian Journal of Political Science – General Issue
PolSci (Romanian Journal of Political Science) is a bi-annual journal edited by the Romanian Academic Society (RAS). PolSci is indexed by ISI Thomson under the Social Sciences Citation Index and by other prominent institutions such as IPSA, GESIS, EBSCO, CEEOL and ProQuest. Previous PolSci contributors include Francis Fukuyama, Larry Diamond or Philippe Schmitter, as well as a significant number of young researchers. The Journal welcomes academic papers, reviews of recent publications and announcements of forthcoming volumes as well as contributions from various fields of research in the social sciences. Submissions are...

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  • Dennis Deletant Georgetown University
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