POLITICAL CONSEQUENCES OF ROMANIA’S MODERNIZATIONS: how the Romanian party system evolved from the 1990’s to the present Cover Image

POLITICAL CONSEQUENCES OF ROMANIA’S MODERNIZATIONS: how the Romanian party system evolved from the 1990’s to the present
POLITICAL CONSEQUENCES OF ROMANIA’S MODERNIZATIONS: how the Romanian party system evolved from the 1990’s to the present

Author(s): Florin Feșnic
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences
Published by: Centrul de Analiza Politica
Keywords: modernization; transition; values; partisanship; voting; Romania;

Summary/Abstract: This paper offers a structural account of the evolution of the major partisan alignments in Romania1. I argue that in the 1990’s there were three major blocs: left, right and “extreme right” (welfare chauvinist), and these were largely the outcome of two processes, modernization from above during Communism and the subsequent transition to democracy and a market economy. Unlike in the case of the other two blocs, the success of the extreme right (PRM) was short-lived; one major consequence of generational replacement is that its natural constituency, the nostalgics of the old regime, is slowly disappearing. The result is that we are moving away from party competition between three major blocs to competition between just two blocs, left and right.

  • Issue Year: 9/2015
  • Issue No: 02 (18)
  • Page Range: 113-124
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: English
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