Local Political Post-Communist Elite: Reproduction or Circulation of Elite? Study case: Râmnicu Vâlcea Municipality Cover Image

Local Political Post-Communist Elite: Reproduction or Circulation of Elite? Study case: Râmnicu Vâlcea Municipality
Local Political Post-Communist Elite: Reproduction or Circulation of Elite? Study case: Râmnicu Vâlcea Municipality

Author(s): Mihaela Ruxanda
Subject(s): Political history, Government/Political systems, Post-Communist Transformation
Published by: Editura Universitaria Craiova
Keywords: politics; elite; democracy; Central and Eastern European countries; democratization process;

Summary/Abstract: This paper presents the democratization processes across Europe, either after the Second World War (e.g. West Germany, Italy) or after the fall of communism (e.g. Central and Eastern European countries). These have placed the new political elites in a delicate position in which the arrangements selected should have impeded the restoration of authoritarianism or totalitarianism and ensure the unproblematic consolidation of democracy.

  • Issue Year: 2013
  • Issue No: 37+38
  • Page Range: 45-54
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: English