THE HISTORICAL AND CULTURAL BACKGROUND OF POLITICAL COMMUNICATION IN ROMANIA Cover Image

DER ZEITHISTORISCHE UND KULTURELLE HINTERGRUND DER POLITISCHEN KOMMUNIKATION IN RUMÄNIEN
THE HISTORICAL AND CULTURAL BACKGROUND OF POLITICAL COMMUNICATION IN ROMANIA

Author(s): Marc Stegherr
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Politics, Media studies, Politics and society
Published by: Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai
Keywords: Media; Crisis; Transformation; Democracy; Discourse.

Summary/Abstract: The media in Western (and Eastern) Europe are in a serious crisis. The gap between published and public opinion is steadily widening. The crisis of Romanian transformation policy and political communication is reflected in a media crisis and more generally in a crisis of trust in political institutions. The disappointment with sluggish political and social change is growing. The article describes the political, social, cultural and intellectual background and the problems of the present Romanian political and public discourse. The main reason why since the end of communist dictatorship no fundamental change towards an open and “impartial discourse” could be achieved is seen in the persisting deficits of democratic transformation and political communication.

  • Issue Year: 61/2016
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 5-31
  • Page Count: 27
  • Language: German