Изграждане на политически имидж чрез предизборни новини и послания (Президентските избори 2016 г.)

Author(s): Sonya Ivanova-Ignatova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2017

The political campaign for the presidential and vice presidential election in the Republic of Bulgaria in October – November 2016 gives rise to research interest and is topical. The campaign discusses the messages of the candidates during their coverage in online media and social networks. Focus is placed on their disclosures in the media, as well as the specific political rhetoric on the part of the candidates regarding their opponents in the campaign. Based on a content analysis and using the descriptive approach, articles in the media and social networking publications are analyzed for the purpose of the specific study. The analysis aims to trace whether the specific disclosures for candidates remain as separate publications in a media or turn into political scandals that are effective enough to discredit a presidential and vice presidential candidate. It also aims to address the question of how much media attention is given to individual politicians, their characteristics and qualities, extracts from their biographies, or it focuses public attention on their political and management achievements. Do individual politicians have a key role and do they shun the parties, institutions and organizations from the focus of the media?The paper examines media messages before the Presidential election in our country in 2016, with a focus on the journalistic style in the news and the role of media in building a political image. The subject of the study is the media messages and posts in Bulgaria before and during the election campaign of the presidential election in 2016. The subject of this paper is the process of building an image of political figures through media messages during the survey ed period. The following methods will be used: empirical observation and theoretical analysis.

Psychological Aspects of Political Choices: Focus on Cognition, Decision-Making Styles, and Emotions in Voting Behaviour

Author(s): Lucia Viteková,Ivana Václaviková / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2022

The presented paper focuses on the issue of voting behaviour. It aims to determine the importance of selected cognitive factors, decision-making styles and emotional factors in electoral decision-making and behaviour in voters with different political preferences and voters of specific Slovak political parties. The cognitive style was evaluated using the Cognitive Reflection Test - Version 2. Decision-making styles were explored using the General Decision Making Styles Questionnaire and emotion preferences in information processing were evaluated using the following affective states test. Within the research sample (N = 308, average age 36.2 years), distinct groups of Slovak voters were created: 1. based on parties with different ideological orientations, and 2. based on specific Slovak political parties. The predictive significance of the observed characteristics for the choice of a political subject with a particular ideology and the choice of a specific Slovak political party was explored. All the variables monitored – cognitive style, decision-making style, and emotion preferences in information processing – proved to be significant.

A historical and psycho-socio-political analysis concerning the evolution of political correctness in North America between the 1960's and 1980's

Author(s): Emanuele Stochino / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2022

This article focuses upon the evolution of political correctness between the 1960’s and 1980’s from a socio-psychological point of view. In time, the socio-psychological vision, through scientific experiments carried out both in the laboratory and on the field, has also dealt with themes inherent to inter-group relations and prejudice. In the article The field of socio-psychological study will be defined and various studies regarding groups, prejudice and the real possibility of their being applied on a large scale and not only to small groups in a laboratory will be illustrated briefly. Through the previously mentioned studies will analyze the emergence and evolution of political correctness. In the second part of article will concern focused regarding the North American racial integration policies which were introduced by advocates of political correctness in relation to those policies brought in by less extreme liberal groups. The latter, owing to the philosophy of their laws inherent to social policy followed the modus operandi suggested by social science. The conclusion will regard whether those social policies inherent to ethnic integration which were introduced according to the theory of political correctness have achieved better results than those proposed by less extreme liberal groups.

Verosimiglianza storica vs memoria creativa in El prodigioso príncipe transilvano

Author(s): Federica Cappelli / Language(s): Italian Issue: 44/2023

In the Spanish theatre of the Golden Age, political propaganda and the consequent need to propose heroes conforming to the prevailing political-religious ideology to the public of corrales de comedia were almost always conditioning the creative process. This is also the case of El prodigioso príncipe transilvano, a historical comedy set at the time of the long Spanish-Turkish conflict (1526-1606) and dedicated to exalting the figure of Sigismund Báthory, in truth one of the most controversial figures in the history of Romanian principalities. This contribution aims at investigating the extent and mechanisms that, in the text, regulate this intersection of historical reliability and creative reworking of a recent past for pro-Spanish and pro- catholic propaganda purposes.

ULOGA OPĆE SKLONOSTI NASILJU U ODNOSU OPĆE MRAČNE OSOBINE LIČNOSTI I PONIZNOSTI/POŠTENJA S PODRŠKOM POLITIČKOM NASILJU

Author(s): Tomislav Pavlović / Language(s): Croatian Issue: 1/2023

Various contemporary psychological models of radicalisation, next to contextual factors, also highlighted the role of relatively stable dispositions in accepting extremist ideologies and political violence related to these ideologies. Newer studies, focused on the role of dark personality traits in the context of radicalisation, relatively consistently found that persons high on dark personality traits are more likely to support political violence and extreme politics. However, empirical explanations of this relationship are still rare. Therefore, this study, in line with previous research, tested if aggression, a common characteristic of dark personality traits, lies behind the relationship between dark personality traits and the honesty/humility dimension from the HEXACO model with support for political violence, while taking into account potential sources of bias that were present in earlier studies. The results obtained on a sample of 191 faculty students robustly exhibited that the relationship between the studied personality traits and support for political violence disappears after statistically controlling for aggression. Therefore, the results of this study offer a valuable contribution to the understanding of extremist attitudes and provide empirical argumentation in favour of the hypotheses on the role of dispositions in the political lives of citizens.

Socijaldemokracija u Hrvatskoj: ideološka samoidentifikacija i biračke preferencije

Author(s): Višeslav Raos / Language(s): Croatian Issue: 01/2023

The article focuses on social democracy in Croatia and on electoral demand ‎in the context of the general crisis and declining political support for social‎democracy. The paper seeks to contribute to the understanding of the state of ‎social democracy in Croatia, by examining the relationship between voter ideological ‎self-identification and party preferences regarding social democracy ‎and voting for the SDP. The analysis uses data obtained through field surveys ‎from 1999 to 2020, to identify factors that influence social democratic voters‎ to vote for the party that represents this political ideology – the SDP. The paper ‎tests a generalized linear mixed model in which survey years are treated as random‎ effects. Self-identification on the left-right scale, as well as the attitude on ‎abortion are found to be significant factors explaining why some social democrats ‎vote for the SDP and others do not, with SDP voters leaning towards more ‎left-wing positions and being more likely to support a woman’s free choice on‎ abortion when compared to other social democratic voters. The random effect‎ of survey years has shown low variability, but the amplification of the impact ‎of the fixed effects is evident for 2003 and 2012, where we can see fragmentation ‎and consolidation, respectively, of social democratic voter support for SDP.‎ The model points to the importance of ideological self-identification for voter‎ orientation even among voters from the same ideological camp.‎

LEADERSHIP IN TIMES OF PANDEMIC CRISIS

Author(s): Nicoleta Lașan,Claudiu SULEA / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 25/2021

In the last decades, leadership has become a very interesting topic for organizations as well as for employees, both of which consider that leadership brings a plus values and a raising profit. For a long time, researchers as well as professionals have tried to find the best type of leadership, but the pandemic crisis affecting the entire world since 2020 has complicated things even more. The paper starts from presenting the main aspects regarding leadership, in order to analyze how the pandemic crisis has affected leadership and what is the best way to lead in times of crisis.

EU INVOLVEMENT IN THE SITUATION OF AFGHAN REFUGEES

Author(s): Ana Maria Comșa / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 26/2021

The EU has encountered several times with emigrant issues, which wanted to be established in one of the Member States of the European Union. But it seems that the situation generated by the withdrawal of allied troops from the territory of Afghanistan has generated a global crisis, catalogued by analysts as the worst since the end of the last World War. Therefore, the states of the European Union have mobilized in order to receive and distribute over 160,000 refugees, which will be divided between member countries. This situation, however, stirred numerous controversy between Member States, some of them, such as Austria, the Czech Republic and Denmark, considering that refugees should remain in neighbouring states, and others consider it to be a division on quotas, each state following a certain number of refugees. In this article we have proposed to make an analysis of the situation of Afghan refugees and the EU's involvement in helping them.

BESSARABIA– A BORDER WORLD BETWEEN CIVILIZATIONS AND POLITICAL ORDERS

Author(s): Felicia Mich / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 27/2021

The literary imagination sketches an exotic projection of the territory between the Proute and the Dniestr rivers – Bessarabia. This projection to which it also contributes the fact that it is situated between two particularly civilizations – german-latins in the west and slavic-byzantine in the east. The bessarabian man is a tragic man by his assumption of his estranged destiny under the mark of historical terror. C.Stere, both as novelist and political man channeled his entire energy into the attempt to reform the social and political structures and the fulfilment of the social credo– unification of Bessarabia with the old Moldova – a mission which he depicts in details in his novel Close to revolution.

Политика на границата на нормалността

Author(s): Bernhard Waldenfels / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2002

PUBLIC RELATIONS CAMPAIGN - FROM THEORY TO PRACTICE

Author(s): Melinda Izabela Achim / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 28/2022

Any PR campaign should start with a well-defined message, which should usually be built around an axis of communication. This axis is like a skeleton or a base that supports the correct line of the campaign and must unify all the ideas of that campaign into one, so that the main message of the campaign is concise, clear, and understood by the target audience. This paper aims to address the public relations campaign from the perspective of those who build the message and to highlight the effects that this message of the campaign has on the public.

LEADERSHIP STYLE

Author(s): Elena Oliviana Epurescu / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 28/2022

A reference title - leadership and organizational behavior, which pursues specific competencies and objectives that allow the individual to become familiar with the field but also with the implementation of the acquisitions. That is why I recommend that courses, modules or trainings with this topic be organized both in the school and in the organizations. Leadership takes place on levels and sets of values. These lead to the approach of a certain style of leader with a certain typology. In this article I have chosen to present leadership styles.

THE BEHAVIORAL DIMENSIONS OF MANAGERIAL DECISION-MAKING PROCESS

Author(s): Lavinia Constantinescu,Radu Bogdan Matei / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 29/2022

This research paper provides an in-depth analysis of the managerial decision-making process. The paper belongs to the economics and subscribes to the general area of research on accounting, with a focus on behavioral accounting, seen as an area of accounting that focuses on the relationship between human behavior and the accounting system. In this context, the field of research intertwines and expands some elements specific to the field of accounting with other social sciences such as psychology, social psychology and sociology. In this framework, the synergy of the two concepts is created: the accounting information and the decision-making process, analyzed at unitary level from the perspective of the sustainable development of the entity. Thus, the paper has a strong interdisciplinary character, being aimed at addressing the issue of behavioral accounting through complementary dimensions. The approach is a detailed research and is limited to descriptive-conceptual research, identifying and presenting the characteristics of the decision-making process, component of behavioral accounting, by giving a major interest in literature and specialized articles.

MEDIA RECEPTION OF U.S. PRESIDENT WOODROW WILSON'S THESIS IN BUDAPEST

Author(s): Andrei Ando,Mihaela Ozarchevici / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 30/2022

The 14 points at which the President of the United States, Woodrow Wilson, in 1918 compressed his vision of the freedom of the peoples were widely publicized in the Europe of The First World War. They also justified the national aspirations of the small peoples of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and were an argument in their struggle for the imposition of nation states. We proposed a research on how Wilson's theses were received by newspapers in Budapest, in a political context in which in the two poles of influence of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the coagulation of some nation states was categorically rejected until the end of the war.

Cosmic Prison Break: From Gnostic Movies to Conspiracist Cosmology

Author(s): Jan A. Kozák / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2021

The article thematically and structurally analyses a group of films usually designated as “gnostic films”. These films share a common ideology as they postulate the existence of two worlds – one illusory and the other true. The hero must escape the false world and reach the true one. As the majority of gnostic films appeared at the turn of the millennium, the article also suggests what contributed to the emergence of these films. As the cosmology of the films bears a close similarity to the cosmology of conspiracy theories, the emergence of the films is shown to be a part of the sociocultural development of the conspiracist mindset entering the mainstream. In the 1990s, conspiracism was out of the closet and gained popularity, but it was not yet perceived as an imminent societal threat and therefore was not a taboo for Hollywood filmmakers. The 1990s were also the decade of a unipolar world order where the absence of an inimical Other engendered anxiety about the system itself, which is reflected in the analysed films.

RHETORIC AND ARGUMENTATION IN POLITICAL DISCOURSE

Author(s): Daniela Dunca / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 31/2022

The totalitarian discourse, as an instrument of terror, had the purpose of excluding otherness. Alterity, never innocent, was conceived as an adversary, an enemy, who had to be identified, unmasked and eliminated. Excitatory, the totalitarian discourse appeals through its rhetoric to a certain kind of pathos, which by its negativity, induces in public the installation of emotions of a destructive character. The totalitarian communist propaganda, both in Romania and in other countries of the former bloc of "popular democracies", built its rhetorical discourse of domination on this pathos, having as double purpose the induction of contempt and hatred towards adversaries, and then the emotional support, from the public, of the illegitimate acts that the regime wanted to impose.

NATO’S NEW STRATEGIC CONCEPT AND THE NATIONAL DEFENSE

Author(s): Diana Chiș-Manolache / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 32/2023

2022 was a year very rich in important security events, given the international security situation, deeply marked by the events taking place in Ukraine. During the NATO Summit in Madrid, held on 28th June 2022 – 30th June 2022, it was approved NATO's new strategic concept. In this concept, it is evaluated the current strategic environment, are redefined the important tasks of the Alliance and are highlighted the elements that ensure its continued success. In this context, the elements regarding national defense occupy a priority place in the national strategy of our country. Romania, an important actor in the international security architecture, is positioned on the eastern flank of NATO, an extremely sensitive geostrategic position, which involves both multiple responsibilities and series of advantages.

THE BEGINNING OF ROMANIAN-AMERICAN RELATIONS

Author(s): Anamaria Lepcaliuc / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 32/2023

The aim of the present research is to establish the relations between a small or medium-sized country and a great power, especially with a remote one from a geographical point of view. As a rule, since the two actors in the international relations scene do not interact directly, there are enough reasons for the political, economic or even cultural bilateral relations to evolve. The topic that we chose to develop in the present paper is one that captivated us due to the fact that the last quarter of a century in the history of communist Romania is a dense one and full of notable events. Moreover, it gives the historian the chance to research numerous archive fonds containing lots of new documents. Therefore, it is the historian’s privilege to write a paper in which to introduce new or lesser known documents to the academic environment.

NEW APPROACHES TO LOCAL AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT IN THE CONTEXT OF EUROPEAN POLICIES

Author(s): Cristina Vasiliu (Patrașcu) / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 33/2023

In a world where choosing the development model of the communities we live in is at the heart of many debates, it is increasingly difficult to establish predefined development models for all communities. Whether we are referring to centralized development models (top down), whether we refer to regional or local ones (bottom-up) they must be addressed in a context and meet both local and national and European needs. Debates around the most effective development models are in the attention of the European Union (EU) whose „heart” is cohesion policy. Where and how we act, who we are considering when setting development priorities are the most complex issues we need to look at in order to maximize the results of EU cohesion policy aimed at „reducing development gaps between European countries and regions”. How the new regional development paradigm is approached, what development models are effective at EU level, what are the new approaches and how their choice is justified in the context of the last programming exercises are the questions that this presentation seeks to answer.

ROMANIA AND ALGERIA'S WAR OF INDEPENDENCE. BETWEEN SUPPORTING THE ALGERIAN PEOPLE AND TENSIONING RELATIONS WITH FRANCE (1954-1962)

Author(s): Iulian Bogdan Ranteș / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 34/2023

The present work aims to analyze the main events of the Algerian war of independence and Romania's position in relation to it. In the first part, a retrospective of the Franco-Algerian conflict will be made, from its beginning on November 1, 1954 until the conclusion of the Evian Peace Agreement on March 20, 1962. In the second part of the paper, we will present how Romania positioned itself to this conflict. Like almost all states in the communist camp, the RPR helped the Algerian people by sending aid consisting of medicine and clothes to the Algerian Red Crescent in 1958 and 1962. Although there were several contacts, Romania was reluctant to recognize the Provisional Government of the Algerian Republic, established in 1958 in exile because there was a possibility that diplomatic relations with France could deteriorate. Thus, the Romanian government waited for the right moment to recognize the Algerian leadership, and this happened on March 20, 1962, after the conclusion of peace, despite the protests of the French Legation in Bucharest. Later, Romania and Algeria established diplomatic relations, and on November 1, 1962, the first official Romanian delegation visited the North African state.