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Vote et réforme territoriale en Europe Centrale et Orientale: administration et politique électorale en Roumanie postcommuniste
Ballot and territorial reform in Central and Eastern Europe: electoral management and politics in postcommunist Romania
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Abstract This article retraces the evolution of the Romanian electoral management system
during the postcommunist decades, by considering it from an institutionalist
and strategic perspective. Electoral management is the setting where various
institutional actors are in constant interaction with the view ... view more
This article retraces the evolution of the Romanian electoral management system
during the postcommunist decades, by considering it from an institutionalist
and strategic perspective. Electoral management is the setting where various
institutional actors are in constant interaction with the view of producing the
postcommunist democratic legitimacy. Their very interaction is a test of the
validity of the postcommunist polity. If the general design of electoral management
remained relatively stable, the institutional actors called to participate in the
endeavour changed their political status, and their institutional attributes and
their policy capacities. The sequence of postcommunist elections unravel the
process of institutional disjunction and political re-conjunction between the
central government, local administration, and the judicial, which set the patterns
for the institutionalisation of Romanian democratic politics.... view less
Keywords
post-communist society; Romania; election campaign; democratization; administration
Classification
Political Process, Elections, Political Sociology, Political Culture
Document language
French
Publication Year
2012
Page/Pages
p. 539-554
Journal
Studia Politica: Romanian Political Science Review, 12 (2012) 4
ISSN
1582-4551
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed
Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works