The evolution of parties supporting government forms of patronage in post-communist Romania
The evolution of parties supporting government forms of patronage in post-communist Romania

Summary/Abstract: The process of democratization in Romania implied the emergence of political parties and of rule of law. However, nine years after the fall of communism, the bureaucrats were still subject to the general labor code, being, in practice, hired and released from their functions by the minister in office. In this context, this article analyzes the politicization of the administrative apparatus and the new forms of patronage emerged, which registered a shift from the personalistic form in the selection of civil servants towards a strategic process, directed by political parties supporting the government in post-communist Romania. In this sense, we assist at a transformation of the patronage forms, from a political form towards a party form of patronage.

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