The armed hand of State-party: The National Guard Cover Image

Brațul armat al partidului-stat: Garda Națională
The armed hand of State-party: The National Guard

Author(s): Florin Grecu
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences
Published by: Fundaţia »Societatea Civilă« (FSC)
Keywords: militarization; recruitment; bureaucracy; Single Party; (anti)propaganda; National Guard

Summary/Abstract: The single party was the militarized political institution of the new authoritarian regime lead by King Carol II by using the armed hand of single organization in the state, The National Guard. The militarization of policy represented the main dimension of the regime and the state architecture revealed the single party capacity to militarize the administrative institutions. The architecture of National Renaissance Front was similar to a military unit, the official attributions of the National Guard consisted in the maintenance of order in the territory, and unofficially regarded the monitoring of members and opposites of the party and regime, by control and surveillance activity. The National Guard was politicized institution of the regime and of the single party which proved its inefficiency because of the subordination of the commandant general to the single party. Militaries lead the single organization as well as the National Guard.

  • Issue Year: XXII/2014
  • Issue No: 180-181
  • Page Range: 121-129
  • Page Count: 9
  • Language: Romanian