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Vol. 16, no. 1, Summer 2016 – General issue

 ABSTRACT | PolSci Volume 16, number 1 (Summer 2016) comprises articles which deal with themes such as effects of military coups on the economy, private pension funds and foreign direct investments. The first article deals with the effects of Xi Jinping's political and economic transformation in China. The second explores the effects of military coups on Turkey's Gross National Product. The third article investigates whether privately managed pension funds represent a long term alternative for the pension system in Romania. The fourth discusses participation in the administration of local welfare systems in...
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Xi Jinping’s Political Economic Transformation and Its International Implications: A Preliminary Assessment

Xi Jinping, a “princeling” scion of China’s revolutionary aristocracy, rose from a blameless but unprepossessing background as a provincial official as blank as a Rorschach inkblot, prudently keeping his political agenda under wraps. Belying early expectations of political reform, Xi has instead since his ascension prioritized the monopolization of political power and implementation of a... »
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The Analysis of the Effects of Military Coups on Gross National Product in Turkey: 1950-1984

This study examines the economic effects of military coups on the Turkish Economy between the years 1950-1984 by employing a special statistical method, called Hybrid Spline Regression Technique, which is appropriate for this particular case. Throughout these years, the army took over the economic and politic administration of Turkey three times. All these experiences caused... »

Global Ageing: Do Privately Managed Pension Funds Represent a Long Term Alternative for the Romanian Pension System? Empirical Research

Worldwide, pension funds face a series of difficulties due to the decrease of the dependence rate, as a result of the ageing phenomenon of the population, correlated with a decreasing birth rate. The present study aims at analysing to what extent the economic and social policies in Romania are able to counteract the difficulties of... »

Participation in the Administration of Local Welfare Systems in Spain

The study, carried out from 2012 to 2015, has produced a typology of the mechanism, organisms and processes of civil participation in the autonomic system of social welfare in Spain. The study also performed a comparative analysis of cases, and assessed the impact, in terms of contributions of the Councils, in the democratic deepening of... »

Foreign Direct Investments and their Institutional Quality Factors in Romania and Bulgaria

The economic literature has focused on the traditional factors impacting foreign direct investments (such as fiscal factors), while the non-traditional factors (such as institutional factors) have been less analyzed. The aim of this paper is to present an econometric analysis using Least Squares Method for emphasizing the political institutional factors, economic institutional factors and the... »

The Contribution of Military Members in Creating a Transparent Security Policy: the Case of Poland

This study aims to give an empirical overview of the contribution of military members and the public in the process of creating transparent security policy in the Republic of Poland. A qualitative-quantitative approach will be used from analyses of academic publications and scientific papers, as well as answers from interviews with military experts about Polish... »

Exposure to Foreign Information as an Influence Factor on R&D Activity. The Case of the Romanian Textile Industry

Theoretical models analysing the innovation process suggest that globalization stimulates creativity through a process of knowledge combination when foreign expertise combines with domestic knowledge. One possible outcome is that development can be fostered in an indirect way by policies that encourage transfer of knowledge between countries and regions through FDI, partnerships and mobility of researchers.... »
CALL FOR PAPERS | Call for Papers from the Romanian Journal of Political Science (PolSci) – 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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  • Alina Mungiu-Pippidi (chair) Hertie School of Governance
  • Larry Diamond Stanford University
  • Tom Gallagher University of Bradford
  • Alena Ledeneva University College London
  • Michael McFaul Stanford University
  • 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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