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Post-communist Romania at twenty-five :

1498501095

9781498501095

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Post-communist Romania at twenty-five :

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linking past, present, and future /

edited by Lavinia Stan and Diane Vancea

xix, 304 pages ;

24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-292) and index

Preface / Paul E. Sum -- Introduction / Lavinia Stan -- The start of a new era? : Romanians react to Ceaucescu's fall / Katherine Verdery -- Coming to terms with the communist past : democracy and memory in Romania / Marius Stan and Vladimir Tismaneanu -- Public space and the material legacies of communism in Bucharest / Duncan Light and Craig Young -- Ethnicity, nationalism and the "minority regime" / Levente Salat and Csaba Zoltán Novak -- On women, feminism and democracy / Mihaela Miroiu -- Political culture and participation : between enthusiasm and indifference / Radu Cinpoes -- Spectacular alterations, few changes in Romania's media / Peter Gross -- Representation, incumbency and the quality of Romanian democracy / Ronald F. King and Cosmin Gabriel Marian -- Unsocial democrats : the PSD's negative role in Romania's democracy / Tom Gallagher -- House of cards : the presidency from Iliescu to Basescu / Lavinia Stan and Diane Vancea -- Romania's commitment to the rule of law? / Dennis Deletant -- Environmental network governance in Romania / Cristina E. Parau -- Conclusion / Monica Ciobanu

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2014 marked the 25th anniversary of the collapse of communist regimes in Eastern Europe. The events of 1989 are widely seen as having ushered in new all-encompassing reforms in almost all areas of life. In few other places were reforms more contested and divisive than in Romania, a country that suffered greatly under the sultanistic-cum-totalitarian dictatorship of Nicolae Ceausescu, faced the region's only bloody anti-communist revolt, and as such had the longest to travel on the road from communism to democracy. We now have a generation's worth of experience with these wrenching reforms that have deeply affected Romania's political institutions and political culture, and ultimately allowed it to become a member of the coveted European Union club. This volume gathers key lessons for democratic theory and practice from Romania's first twenty-five years of post-communist transformation. Written by leading experts in the field of Romanian Studies, the chapters focus on the most important factors that have shaped the country's political transformation during the first 25 years of post-communism.--

Democracy-- Romania

Democratization-- Romania

Post-communism-- Romania

Romania, Politics and government, 1989-

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Stan, Lavinia

Vancea, Diane,1966-

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