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PolSci Volume 14, number 1 (Summer 2014) comprises articles which deal with the general topic of political communication by touching upon themes such as the use of social media by political parties, Euroscepticism and the national identity discourses of ethnic minorities. The first article employs sentiment analysis to empirically examine the use of Twitter for political purposes in Slovenia. The second investigates the discourse of Vaclav Klaus on the Euro and European integration by using the critical discourse analysis method. The third article presents the perceived national representations of the...
ARCHIVE Vol 13, no. 2, Winter 2013 – General issue
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PolSci Volume 13, number 2 (winter 2013) comprises articles which touch upon themes such as political parties' electoral success and voters' behaviour, normative power and regional security in East Asia and the endurance of informal practices within a transitional bureaucracy. The first is an empirical analysis (case study Bosnia and Herzegovina) of the question whether nationalism and ethnicity continue to influence elections in consociational political frameworks. The second focuses on post-communist party systems and the ability of new parties to maintain their long-term presence in the Parliament (case study Slovenia). The...
ARCHIVE Vol 13, no. 1, Summer 2013 – General issue
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PolSci Volume 13, no. 1 (summer 2013) presents a viewpoint from the Commissioner for Fundamental Rights of Hungary on the recent constitutional challenges and novelties experienced by this country and in particular on the relations between the Ombudsman and the Constitutional Court. In addition, this issue features articles which examine the democratic backsliding in the European Union’s New Member States, with a particular focus on Hungary, the argument according to which Turkey’s foreign policy has experienced an “Eastern turn” by using statistical methods of analysis, the relevance of monetary policies...
ARCHIVE Vol 12, no. 2, Winter 2012 – General issue
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The latest issue of the Romanian Journal of Political Science (PolSci) covers issues such as the development of e-governance in the Romanian public administration, good governance via the Open Method of Coordination in the Slovenian educational and employment fields, the necessity to develop a different conceptualization of Euroscepticism, the actual importance of the EU Council Trio Presidency for the presiding state (case study on Slovenia) and the limitations of foreign...
This paper tries to point out that the three consecutive crises (the triple crisis) in the New Member States (NMS) have claimed the heavy social price that has been responsible for the drastic “backsliding of the new democracies”. These countries underwent a transformation recession in the early nineties and, once members of the EU, they... »
Abstract This article represents a viewpoint from the Commissioner for Fundamental Rights of Hungary on the constitutional challenges and novelties experienced by this country, in particular on the relations between the Ombudsman and the Constitutional Court. It covers the practice involving these two institutions and offers some justifications for the substantial changes introduced in recent years,... »
The drive towards Europe has been part of Romanian and Bulgarian political agenda, the syncope of communism apart, since the early days of state building and nation-building in the nineteenth century. This “’geocultural Bovarism,’ a disposition to leap frog” into Europe, was motivated by the “fear … that the country would fall right off the... »
The article examines the impact of the new European Union member states from Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) on the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) during the period 2004-2013. This article specifically addresses the agricultural policy preferences of the newcomers, emerging coalitions and voting behaviours in the Council of Agricultural Ministers on CAP issues. The analysis... »
The fiscal rules of the Stability and Growth Pact on deficit and debt have become the focus of many scholarly works in the past 15 years. The study of domestic fiscal rules, however, has remained a neglected part of research. The new Treaty on the EMU’s Stability, Cooperation and Governance (TSCG) makes the analysis of... »
This paper deals with national representations of the Hungarian minority from Transylvania and its group boundaries within the context of the Hungarian and Romanian nation. The main empirical source is represented by qualitative data, based on a focus group analysis from 2009. It analyses the ways in which Hungarians from Transylvania reconstruct national group boundaries... »
The aim of this paper is to investigate the discourse of Vaclav Klaus on European integration by analysing his discourse on the euro during his term of office as President of the Czech Republic. The authors apply critical discourse analysis to selected speeches by Klaus, using their findings to analyse Klaus’s position on the Euro and European integration... »
The Slovenian political arena has been marked with historically based polarization, relative inefficiency in achieving consensus and a positive contribution to socio-economic development and stability in the country. The present article examines the reflection of these trends in political communication over the web and via Twitter. Using qualitative data analysis and content analysis we first... »
The aim of this article is to address the lack of academic knowledge about public services in post-Soviet Georgia. Its attention is focused on the practices of career progression in public institutions in the context of meritocratic principles. In the new, ever-changing environment, with the inherited general mistrust of Soviet-type institutions, and at the time when formal democratic... »
The present research focuses on the problem of personality determinants of individual voting behaviour. The applied methodological approach was the Five Factor model, based on the trait theory of personality. The study (sample size N = 726) used a questionnaire drawn up by Paul T. Costa and Robert R. McCrae – creators of the Five... »
The concept of normative power has gained prominence, and consequently, invigorated research endeavours in recent years. With the exception of the “normative power Europe”, the concept still remains a relatively under-researched topic in international relations. This is particularly valid for case studies of East Asian countries, and this article attempts to fill this void to... »
The present research focuses on the problem of personality determinants of individual voting behaviour. The applied methodological approach was the Five Factor model, based on the trait theory of personality. The study (sample size N = 726) used a questionnaire drawn up by Paul T. Costa and Robert R. McCrae – creators of the Five... »
This article addresses a gap in the literature concerning the survivability of new political parties in existing parliamentary systems. It focuses on the particularities of post-communist party systems and considers the impact that the recent international financial and economic crisis has had on decreasing the legitimacy of the established parties – for which Slovenia will... »
In “Making democratic governance work: how regimes shape prosperity, welfare, and peace”, Harvard Professor Pippa Norris tries to untangle the intricate relationship between liberal democracy, state capacity and human security. Norris’s objective is to explain why liberal democracy should be valued as intrinsically good for prosperity, welfare and peace, the core components of human... »
Book review Professor Douglas A. Irwin’s Third Edition “Free Trade Under Fire” is a striking proof that mercantilism still rules the minds of people. The book is a sound and clear exposition of all important problems of modern international trade (environmental and labour standards, multilateral and bilateral trade agreements, antidumping issues etc.), in an obvious... »
Submissions are now being accepted for the summer 2014 issue.
Please submit your work saved as a Microsoft Word document at polsci@sar.org.ro before April 20, 2014, midnight Central European Time. Please note that we will not review manuscripts that have already been published, are scheduled for publication elsewhere, or have been simultaneously submitted to another journal.
The Romanian Academic Society requires the assignment of copyright. If you are interested in submitting an article, please visit our website for details on the Authors’...
Submissions are now being accepted for the winter 2013 issue.
Please submit your work saved as a Microsoft Word document at polsci@sar.org.ro before 15th of September, 2013, midnight Central European Time. Please note that we will not review manuscripts that have already been published, are scheduled for publication elsewhere, or have been simultaneously submitted to another journal.
The Romanian Academic Society requires the assignment of copyright. If you are interested in submitting an article, please visit our website for details on the Authors’...
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