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Monday, February 23rd, 2026
The 2025 Romanian presidential elections in the Republic of Moldova: Voting behavior, public perception, and contextualization
This study provides a critical analysis of the 2025 Romanian presidential elections, focusing on their unfolding and public reflection within the Republic of Moldova. Interest in these elections grew significantly among Romanian citizens residing in Moldova. The May 2025 vote followed a prolonged and intricate electoral process that began in...
Wednesday, September 18th, 2024
The Romanian Electoral Management Body: Between the Governmental Model and the Independent Model
This study examines the Romanian Electoral Management Body (EMB), focusing on its dualistic structure. It distinguishes between the formal independence and functional independence of electoral management institutions and proposes a qualitative evaluation of the Permanent Electoral Authority (AEP) and the Central Electoral Bureau (BEC). The...
Tuesday, October 18th, 2022
Strong state, weak society: state capacity, economic development and clientelism in modern Russia
This paper provides a comparative analysis of how highly differentiated regions of Russia perform in terms of economic development, public services delivery and overall quality of governance while linking these factors to levels of political support for the current incumbent during the latest presidential electoral campaign in 2018. It introduces...
Sunday, July 1st, 2012
Clientelism: Electoral Forms and Functions in the Romanian Case Study
ABSTRACT
The ambition of the study is to provide a description of the forms and functions of clientelism, thus looking at the differences between “rural” forms of clientelism that still rely on familiar brokerage, and their implications in terms of the power status of local bosses, and the “urban” forms of...
Wednesday, September 8th, 2010
Non-partisan Local Actors As The Element Of Absorbed Local Democracy?
The paper focuses on a lesser known political phenomenon seen in Slovenia since the country gained its independence in 1991. At every local election since 1994 so-called independent candidates and non-partisan lists 1 have been gaining ever more votes and increasing support . For various reasons, this phenomenon does not...
