Consensualism administrativ și partidocrație
Consensualist Admi­ nistration and Partycracy

Summary/Abstract: An informative survey and in-depth discussion of the outcomes at the Ro­manian local elections of 2004 and of the majorities in the county councils, the study confirms previous research by the author. The awkward combination between the consensualist goals of the Law on local public administration and the partycracy tendencies entrenched in the political regime yields the con­clusion that the same six main political parties that had won seats in the Par­liament in the 2000 general elections continue to dominate the administration and the outcomes of the local elections. Therefore, for the moment, the 2000 national elections remain decisive for articulating the Romanian party system, which oscillates between the two models of Arend Lijphart, majoritarian and consensualist, with a pragmatic emphasis on the former.

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