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The triple crisis in Hungary: The “Backsliding” of Hungarian Democracy after Twenty Years

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... »

Proceedings of the Constitutional Court and the Ombudsman’s Activity: First Steps in Practice on the Basis of Regulation of the Basic Law

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,... »
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Risks of corruption and the management of EU funds in Romania

The suspension of EU payments in four operational programmes in 2012 showed how problematic Romania’s correct and effective management of EU funds is. Such funds aim primarily at decreasing the socio-economic disparities among EU members and support the economic convergence of less developed new EU members with their Western counterparts. Consequently, a poor absorption rate... »
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Wenceslao, J. Gonzalez. (2015). Philosophico-Methodological Analysis of Prediction and its Role in Economics. New York: Springer

Wenceslao, J. Gonzalez. (2015). Philosophico-Methodological Analysis of Prediction and its Role in Economics. New York:... »
CALL FOR PAPERS | Call for Special Issue Contributions – From Democracy to e-Democracy: How Social Technologies and Media Interact with Democracy
Romanian Journal of Political Science invites scholars to contribute to the Special Issue From Democracy to e-Democracy. This compendium will pursue the question of how social technologies and media interact with democracy. In recent years, digitalization has gone from a simple process to the status quo and a whole digital world, so that it appears to be one of the few sure constants of the future. As a result, the terrain of democracy cannot remain unaffected by the specific processes of digitalization and technologization. Social processes, as essential element of democracy, have...
CALL FOR PAPERS | Call for Papers, Vol. 13, No. 2 (Winter 2013) – General issue
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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