Max Jacob - Villonelă/ Profesorul Eugen Todoran/ Acei Dom' Profesor

Author(s): Şerban Foarţă,Marcel Tolcea,Ileana Oancea / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 12/2002

This issue's "Copyright" section includes, apart from the usual poetical display offered by Şerban Foarţă, two articles written in commemoration of one of Timişoara's most reputed Humanities Professor, Mr. Eugen Todoran. Five years from his departure, Marcel Tolcea and Ileana Oancea, Dean of the University of the West's Faculty of Filology step back for a moment to let the readers contemplate an emotional restrospective on an uncommon cultural personality.

The birch tree

Author(s): Slavko Kolar / Language(s): English Issue: 1/1986

All the speculations and well-maning resurances that Janica might pull through alive and even weel enough to leave the sick bed where she had been lyng for five weeks now were cut short by old Mika Labudan, head of house hold number 27 on Labudan Hll, in the village of Bikovac.

Sete

Author(s): Marin Franičević / Language(s): Italian Issue: 1/1986

L'ATTIMO (Čas) STRADA DI VRISNIK (Ulica u Vrisniku) SETE (Žeđ) RICORDO DI UNA NOTTE (Sjeéanje na jednu noć)

Современная картина хорватского народного возрождения

Author(s): Josip Vončina / Language(s): Russian Issue: 1/1986

Научная конференция посвяшенная 150 годовшине движения Хорватского народного возрождения Югославская академия науки и искусства, Загреб – Крапина 11-14 декабра 1985

Rustichello

Author(s): Antun Soljan / Language(s): English Issue: 1/1986

Poem by Antun Šoljan

The society of writers of Croatia- 85 years

Author(s): Božidar Petrač / Language(s): English Issue: 1/1986

In a long span from 1900 to the present, the Society of Writers of Croatia has been enjoying a rich and productive life since its founding 85 years ago, when it was called the Society of Croatian Writers.

A l'exposition universelle de 1900

Author(s): Antun Gustav Matoš / Language(s): French Issue: 1/1986

Ces lignes vous paraitrons peut-etre ennuyeuses dans la mesure où vous avez pu voir avant moi les oeuvres de nos artistes croates. Je me console à l'idée que nos jornaux vous ont habitues à ce sentiment de solitude.

The lexicon of contemporary Croatian writers

Author(s): Branko Maleš / Language(s): English Issue: 1/1986

The lexicon of contemporary Croatian writers

Preface

Author(s): Author Not Specified / Language(s): English Issue: 01/2004

The 2004 General Election And Left–Right Change In Lithuania

Author(s): Mindaugas Jurkynas / Language(s): English Issue: 01/2004

The parliamentary election of 2004 was the second “earthquake” shock for the Lithuanian party system after 2000. The number of parties and voter volatility increased. Distrust in older parties, issue divides of centre-periphery, better-off-socially disadvantaged, urban-rural, religious, anti-Russian, and transitional relevance of personalities in politics and miscommunication between politicians, experts and voters on the Left-Right dimension provide account for the unstable electoral preferences and fluidity of the party system. Recent studies reveal diminishing importance of the Left-Right dimension in Lithuania. However, this article considers the Left-Right dimension of political conflict as “empty boxes”, which are filled in with most important political problematique. Therefore political conflict always exists, but its contents might change from country to country. The study analyses expert opinions of the Left-Right dimension in Lithuania in 2004 and concludes that political analysts identify withering of old Communist-Anticommunist cleavage and hold social and economic issues as the most important for the Left-Right dimension in Lithuania. According to experts, parties line up along the Labour-Capital cleavage.

Policy Transfer In The Pre- And Post-Accession Period: Experience Of The New Eu Member States*

Author(s): Vitalis Nakrošis / Language(s): English Issue: 01/2004

This article analyses the process of policy transfer in the candidate countries/ new member states before and after EU eastward enlargement. The analysis is based on the experience of Lithuania in several policy areas. Policy transfer is analysed at three different levels (macro, medium and micro), the analysis is based on the new institutionalist approach. The paper assesses the effectiveness of different policy transfer types, the impact of EU-level and domestic factors on policy transfer as well as main outcomes of policy transfer. Finally, the paper summarises main findings of the analysis and discusses the future of policy transfer in the enlarged EU.

Conceptions Of Democracy In Post-Soviet Lithuania

Author(s): Ainė Ramonaitė / Language(s): English Issue: 01/2004

The purpose of the article1 is to analyse the popular views of democracy in a post-communist society. It seeks to explore how the meanings of democracy are formed by the citizens that were socialised by the Soviet regime and have neither knowledge nor direct experience of democratic rule. The article will draw on qualitative research data collected in 2004 in four Lithuanian districts. The data reveal two conceptions of democracy dominating among ordinary citizens in Lithuania: 1) democracy as an opposition to the Soviet rule, and 2) democracy as an “ideal” type of government. The first conception mainly relates democracy with the

Content - Lithuanian Political Science Yearbook 2004

Author(s): Author Not Specified / Language(s): English Issue: 01/2004

The Idea Of Political Representation In Lithuanian Political Imagination

Author(s): Inga Vinogradnaitė / Language(s): English Issue: 01/2004

The aim of this article is to discuss the idea of political representation in Lithuanian political imagination. The starting point for a discussion is existence of two opposite doctrines of political representation: “independent mandate” and “imperative mandate”. Constitutional Court of Lithuania has decided that Constitution establishes the “independent mandate” for a political representative. Any institutional arrangements that tend to bind the independent judgment of a politician are unconstitutional. This article argues that the doctrine of independent mandate, however, does not adequately express the idea of political representation in Lithuanian political imagination. On the basis of discourse analysis, an alternative articulation of the image of a political representative is provided.

Party Systems In Central East Europe

Author(s): Algis Krupavičius / Language(s): English Issue: 01/2004

Contemporary transitions from authoritarian rule to democracy in many ways represent institutionalization and consolidation of parties and multi- party systems in new democracies. Still the post-communist polities often are characterized as taking an antiparty stance, political parties as lacking responsiveness and accountability, party systems as being in flux and unconsolidated. Central East European party systems are differing from one country to another: there are no two identical party systems in the region. But general trend is that a model of multiparty system without a dominant party is most popular here. Still high rates of electoral volatility in Central East Europe might be potentially a single most dangerous factor to party system stability in its current configurations.

Rethinking Russia

Author(s): Kæstutis Paulauskas / Language(s): English Issue: 01/2004

In this paper, the author argues that “high politics” of the ever-complicated Lithuanian-Russian relations are over. Yet, it is maintained that tensions persist in “low politics” and the security concerns related to Kaliningrad region, and Russian energy policy top the agenda. The author maintains that Lithuania needs to become more pragmatic in its daily business with Russia, more flexible within the EU about its policies towards Russia but also stay assertive in its long-term interest to see Russia becoming a normal democracy.

Kant and the Kaliningrad Problem

Author(s): Alvydas Jokūbaitis / Language(s): English Issue: 01/2004

The aim of the article is to disclose a possible view of Kant towards the solution of the Königsberg problem after World War II. Nowadays philosophers usually show little interest in debates on the so-called “Kaliningrad Puzzle”. This is a kind of misunderstanding. As one of the most prominent representatives of the idealistic paradigm of international relations, Kant may be a competent participant of the debates on the future of the Kaliningrad region. His political philosophy contributes to a better understanding of certain important aspects related to the Kaliningrad problem.

Ekonomické slobody v Európskej únii po vytvorení jednotného trhu

Author(s): Beata Lipková / Language(s): Slovak Issue: 05/2011

Single market is the basic pillar of the EU’s economic integration. Its func-tioning influences Union’s economic growth and its global macroeconomic per-formance. Article analyzes current state of market integration resulting from economic freedoms of common market – free movement of goods, persons, ser-vices, and capital. Key areas where economic protectionism of the EU member states persists are in focus. Even though goods and financial markets were already integrated to a large extent, services, labor, and public procurement markets are still national in character. Macro- and microeconomic effects of the creation of single market are also constituent part of the analysis.

Jozef CHAJDIAK – Marek RADVANSKÝ: Pohľady na ekonomiku Slovenska 2011

Author(s): Marek Radvanský,Jozef Chajdiak / Language(s): Slovak Issue: 05/2011

Dňa 12. apríla 2011 sa v aule Ekonomickej univerzity v Bratislave konal jedenásty ročník konferencie Pohľady na ekonomiku Slovenska 2011 (PES). Konferenciu každoročne organizuje Slovenská štatistická a demografická spoločnosť (SŠDS) pravidelne začiatkom roka spravidla mesiac po zverejnení údajov štvrťročných účtov za predošlý kalendárny rok.

Hysteresis in Unemployment: Evidence from 23 OECD Countries

Author(s): Hülya Kanalici Akay,Feridun Yilmaz,Mehmet Nargeleçekenler / Language(s): English Issue: 05/2011

Unemployment is one of the most important problems that all countries must overcome. As a result, it has become one of the centrally explored issues in mac-roeconomics, and several theories have been proposed to explain the existence of high unemployment rates. Traditional theories describe movements of unem-ployment as fluctuations around a natural rate. However, theories that rely on a natural rate of unemployment have been challenged by hysteresis theories. According to hysteresis theories, all shocks have permanent effects on the level of unemployment. This paper tests hysteresis effects in unemployment using panel data for 23 OECD countries covering the period 1963 – 2007. The paper applies both a univariate time series and a panel data unit root test with and without a structural break to test for unemployment hysteresis in OECD coun-tries against the alternative of a natural rate. The results point to the rejection of the hysteresis hypothesis for the OECD and are compatible with structuralist theories as described by the structuralist view.