Culture politique européenne et modernité roumaine

Abstract

Representing democracy in the 19th century Romanian political discourse means, first of all, to focus the analysis on the implications the concept of democracy could provide. In the after 1848 revolution period, and especially after 1866, the concept of Romanian democracy and its place within political discourse are conditioned by philosophical and historiographical discontinuities between the periods, the intellectual sources, the political and institutional framework of that time. In those senses, democracy should be regarded as a fundamental concept to political and institutional development in the last three decades of 19th century. The present article goes on this path, analysing some examples of political discourse during the make-up of the fundamental democratic institutions in the Romanian modernity.