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DER TRANSFORMATIONSPROZESS RUMÄNIENS UND SEINE HINDERNISSE ZUR DEMOKRATIE
THE TRANSFORMATION PROCESS OF ROMANIA AND ITS OBSTACLES TO DEMOCRACY

Author(s): Roxana Alice Stoenescu
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Civil Society, Governance, Culture and social structure , State/Government and Education, Management and complex organizations, Studies in violence and power, Nationalism Studies, Ethnic Minorities Studies, Globalization, Geopolitics, Identity of Collectives, Corruption - Transparency - Anti-Corruption
Published by: Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai
Keywords: Romania; post-comunism; transformation process; democratisation; value shift; political culture;

Summary/Abstract: This article discusses the difficulties of Romania's transformation and democratisation process. Despite the "official" change of system, corruption, social inequality, clan structural organisation and nepotism prevail in Romania. Without democratic values having provided the decisive impetus for the transformation of society, the completion of the system change didn´t take place, because there was no basis for a democratic change of values. The main thesis are that if the consciousness of the broad masses, despite the formal democratisation process did not change fundamentally, changing towards a democratic identity remains rather a utopian goal.

  • Issue Year: 63/2018
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 293-316
  • Page Count: 24
  • Language: German
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