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Que font et que sont les partis politiques roumains?
Romanian political parties: what they are and what they do?
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Abstract At the very moment of the fall of Romanian communism, pluripartism was viewed as an irrefutable sign of democracy. However, political pluralism was not a value to be simply inserted in a sphere of political representations forged during communism, nor parties political objects to be easily conceived... view more
At the very moment of the fall of Romanian communism, pluripartism was viewed as an irrefutable sign of democracy. However, political pluralism was not a value to be simply inserted in a sphere of political representations forged during communism, nor parties political objects to be easily conceived and build in a political life deserted by the Communist Party. The article explores and synthesizes the ways those two fundamental references of a democracy -i.e. political pluralism and political parties- were conceptualized by the Romanian postcommunist politicians: what is a political party? what parties are supposed to do in the emerging political regime and what kind of societal pluralism are they supposed to mirror? Those are questions whose answers and the way they were answered lies in the heart of Romanian democratization and regime building in the 1990 and 2000.... view less
Keywords
Romania; post-communist society; party; party system; pluralism; democratization; twentieth century
Classification
Political Process, Elections, Political Sociology, Political Culture
Document language
French
Publication Year
2007
Page/Pages
p. 257-266
Journal
Studia Politica: Romanian Political Science Review, 7 (2007) 2
ISSN
1582-4551
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed
Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 1.0