Rhetorical Patterns on Minority Language and Education Rights in Post-Communist Romania: Finding the Middle Ground (1996 – 2004) Cover Image

Rhetorical Patterns on Minority Language and Education Rights in Post-Communist Romania: Finding the Middle Ground (1996 – 2004)
Rhetorical Patterns on Minority Language and Education Rights in Post-Communist Romania: Finding the Middle Ground (1996 – 2004)

Author(s): Monica Andriescu
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences
Published by: Central European University (CEU) - Center for Policy Studies

Summary/Abstract: This article critically analyzes minority and majority rhetoric in postcommunist Romania with the purpose of uncovering the key factors that have shaped discourse and practice on minority language and education rights toward relatively accommodating stances. A second level of research examines the limits in the majority’s willingness to compromise on the extension the legal-institutional minority rights framework beyond the “autonomy threshold”.

  • Issue Year: 2007
  • Issue No: 04
  • Page Range: 425-449
  • Page Count: 25
  • Language: English