Résidus du national-communisme et populisme. Recette du succès du parti România Mare
Residues of national communism and populism. Recipe for Success of the party România Mare
Author(s): Lavinia Betea, Luciana RãdutSubject(s): Psychology
Published by: EDITURA POLIROM S.A.
Summary/Abstract: After the communist regime fall, with a single political party, in Romania the number of political parties exploded. A marginal party from these is Great Romania Party (Partidul România Mare . PRM), the main Romanian extremist party, founded in 1992, one year after the appearance of the homonym journal, which is the official media-platform of the party. The image of the party identifies with its leader.s . Corneliu Vadim Tudor, elegist of Ceauşescu husbands, converted in a political person with abrupt elective success. He created for himself a Christian aura which awards moral values of Romanian society, which is in social and economic adrift. He bet on nationalistic perceives and populist strategy. In an intercultural research advanced at European Laboratory of Social Psychology (Paris), we studied checkpoints of Romanian nationalism and premises of postcommunist nationalism in comparison with right-wing extreme form France, Italy and Hungary. Using methods of focus-group and declamation analyses we analyzed PRM electors, militants and sympathizers opinions. Using this general lines of logic for PRM adherence, our conclusions are related at success dispense of Great Romania Party (Partidul România Mare), leader charisma, economical and political situation of country in postcommunist transition, the political populism, the typology of adherents and sympathizers of PRM.
Journal: Psihologia socială
- Issue Year: 2007
- Issue No: 20
- Page Range: 51-66
- Page Count: 16
- Language: French