Democratic Transition and Consolidation in Romania
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Democratic Transition and Consolidation in Romania

Civic engagement and elite behavior after 1989

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Democratic Transition and Consolidation in Romania

Civic engagement and elite behavior after 1989

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Democratic transition is a very complex phenomenon. It relies on the outcome of the political competition between key actors during its initial stages, as well as on economic, social, and structural constraints inherited from the previous authoritarian regime. The book compares both series of factors by focusing on citizens' democratic engagement and on political elites' behavior. Despite a strong path-dependency to the previous authoritarian structures and low levels of initial democratic resources, citizens made proof of remarkable willingness to support democracy. By street protests, they even pressured political populist elites in power to abandon radical undemocratic regime changes. Romania managed therefore to maintain its European course and to avoid serious democratic backsliding.

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Publisher
Peter Lang Group
Year
2019
ISBN
9783631782569
Edition
1
Topic
Politics & International Relations
Subtopic
International Relations
Index
Politics & International Relations

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Copyright information
  3. Contents
  4. Introduction
  5. 1 Regime change and transition trajectories
  6. 2 Social trust, citizen engagement and the role of civil society
  7. 3 Social capital and the support for democracy in Romania
  8. 4 Social capital and political engagement in Romania
  9. 5 Social dependency and predatory elites: from state capture to external conditionality
  10. 6 Why no backsliding? Populism and the unrestricted use of executive power following the 2007 EU accession
  11. 7 Unpopular populists: public overt contestation and political survival strategies
  12. 8 Twenty-five years of democratic transition and consolidation
  13. Bibliography