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Consolidarea partidelor politice și reforma instituțională a autorității publice în Europa Centrală și Orientală: pluripartism și pluralism politic în postcomunismul românesc
Political Parties and Institutional reform in Central and Eastern Europe: Pluriparism and Pluralism in the Romanian Postcommunism
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Abstract The article explores the way political participation, representation and governance
are conceptualized and rationalized by the Romanian legislation on parties. The
plurality of parties was initially set up as a way to discipline and organize the
political pluralism manifest in society in order to... view more
The article explores the way political participation, representation and governance
are conceptualized and rationalized by the Romanian legislation on parties. The
plurality of parties was initially set up as a way to discipline and organize the
political pluralism manifest in society in order to contain it within the boundaries
imposed by the Constitution. This disciplinary vocation of parties was confirmed
and reinforced by the laws enacted in 1996 and 2003 that embedded parties into
a functional vision of democracy where they were explicitly endowed with
the public mission of ensuring the political integration of Romanian citizens.
The detailed rationalization of parties’ mission to organize citizens’ political
participation and to contain the expression of their political will contrasted
sharply with both the ambiguity of their governmental role within the ”eclectic”
institutional design of the Constitution, and with their organizational friability.... view less
Keywords
democratization; pluralism; political participation; party law; party system; Romania; post-communist society
Classification
Political Process, Elections, Political Sociology, Political Culture
Document language
Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
Publication Year
2013
Page/Pages
p. 111-124
Journal
Studia Politica: Romanian Political Science Review, 13 (2013) 1
ISSN
1582-4551
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed
Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works