Protestul din 10 august 2018, un catalizator al implicării civice românești
The protest of August 10, 2018, a catalyst for Romanian civic involvement

Summary/Abstract: This article investigates the global conditions that determined the protest action of August 10, 2018, so our approach is at the intersection of several fields of analysis: transition and democratic consolidation. In order to answer the research question (to what extent did the socio-political context determine the mobilization of the diaspora in 2018?), we set out to develop the outline of an analysis model that takes from Neil Smelser`s structural theory essential elements for explanatory logic of this new model. Recent events in Romania are strongly influenced by the post-communist transition and in order to identify the causal relationship between participation in contentious actions and participation in voting, the study applied a retrospective analysis of the postDecember transition. Our approach was motivated by the concern to validate or invalidate the hypothesis that the perception of a poor functioning of institutions facilitated the emergence of the protest of August 10, 2018. On the background of a complex and multifaceted reality of diaspora protest, our approach was inspired by theories that follow a structural perspective. As a result, based on direct observations, informal discussions, summaries of various press reports, following Facebook pages and groups as well as data obtained from 69 questionnaires applied in Victoriei Square, at the time of protest, we identified and analyzed structural tensions which were generated by the way in which the political factor managed the situation regarding the legislative changes in the field of justice.

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