Introduction: Political Dynamics in Post-Communist Romania
Introduction: Political Dynamics in Post-Communist Romania

Summary/Abstract: The contributions to this special issue describe and analyse the institutional and behavioural dynamics of the political processes that have occurred in Romania since 1989. The country is one of the largest of the East European members of the European Union (EU) with a population and territorial area exceeded only by that of Poland, and the idiosyncrasies of its economic, political and social transition make it an appealing case study of political dynamics in a new democracy. There are the circumstances of its elite continuity and the question of corruption to consider, the positions of minorities, the comparative lateness of its democratic achievements as well as its more recent social convulsions. Largely as a consequence of many of the problems associated with those matters, Romania was able to join the EU only in 2007, although its accession process had been initiated at the same time as in other countries which were admitted to the EU in 2004.

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