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Trust and Democracy

Author(s): Mihnea Vasilescu / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2003

There is an increasing number of voices among political scientists arguing that trust is positively related to democracy and its seemingly decreasing trend should worry us. Dahl believes that owing to the scale of modem and post-modem societies, cognitive and affective obstacles hamper the achievement of predispositions toward civic virtues. Trust is considered by many as being part of these civic virtues and its dissolution should be deplored. But, is trust really important or not in a democratic regime where institutions were designed "to produce a decent political life in the absence of less than complete trust"?

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Nárcisztika a politikában

Author(s): Gábor Kállai R. / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 2 (43)/2022

Facebook is an ideal field for all forms of political narcissism. The variations range from a simple obsession with the self – which is the best-known expressive mode of narcissism – to tense compensation of self-hate. The classic narcissistic user is that who schematically hunts for likes in a fashionable hairstyle, with fashionable accessories, with fashionably cute children in a fashionable holiday spot, hiding in his/her own opinion bubble, erasing all opposing opinions.However, Facebook is also a daily field of interaction, in which debate partners and opposing opinions appear. For the atypical narcissistic user a countering opinion is a form of self-confirmation: despite all “attacks” I am right and all enemies can be defeated or erased. The elections and the currently unfolding war have fortified both types of narcissism. Professional politicians on Facebook – independent of their private personalities – are forced to appear narcissistic in either forceful or refined ways, this being a necessity of their calling. The analyst-type users – or those who present themselves in that way – are in a more complicated situation. In this circle, the most affirming partner is one who comments with an opposing opinion. One can communicate an intellectual advantage over such partners using a so-called sense of reality derived from more education or communicating an advantage in terms of grammar and use of language. The person writing the opposing opinion – depending on the topic – can be seen as uneducated, biased or a paid troll, who by the very act of posting their countering opinion confirms that the “analyst” is an exceptional individual.And is, of course, right."

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TOLERANCE AND MULTICULTURAL POLICIES

Author(s): Gigi Sorin Sasu / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 20/2020

Tolerance is desirable. It also has a hidden dimension, negative dimension, involving a power ratio of subordination, between the tolerant and the tolerated, which could at any time give rise to postponed conflicts for a while. The negative character of tolerance is visible in the form of the danger of substituting the authentic with what is relevant as being important; tolerance implies the recognition and protection of evil and the unacceptable. It was harnessed under two assumptions: that an attitude of recognizing the value of personal choice, in relation to religious and moral truth and as a restraint from the negative appreciation of the beliefs of others and their acceptance that they are theoretically justified. Religious minorities do not always or totally confused with ethnic minorities. In terms of identity diversity the state law must develop multicultural policies.Affirmation of community identity based on the principle of tolerance can adversely affect minority groups, including the religious ones, through the projections on them, that resentment of the majority group. In a tolerant environment, in case of “crisis”, minorities may become “scapegoats” of the majority or fundamentalist discourse. The discourse of multicultural policies pursues both tolerance and acceptance of the other as different. Assumption by the political will of the ideology of multiculturalism establishes the general frameworks for a dialogue between religious minority and majority, as well as inter-religious dialogue. The basis for opening such a dialogue is the responsibility of the state, national and multicultural to ensure the environment for the integration of the inter-confessional and the inter-religious dialogue in the multicultural dialogue.

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TO BE OR NOT TO BE POLITICALLY CORRECT

Author(s): Jeong O. Park,Denis-Mihai Covaci / Language(s): English Issue: 20/2020

Political Correctness is a fluid concept, in a continuous development, which is also the reason that it makes so hard to define. Being so, a lot of people trying to answer if they are pro or against, if they have to be or not to be politically correct. This article makes a short research on different definitions and its links to the neo-Marxism ideas. Analyzing different examples, people may understand better if PC succeed to fulfil its purpose: diversity, tolerance, equality.

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Podzielone społeczeństwo: strach jako czynnik kluczowy liderów stylu Johna Wayne'a

Author(s): Maciej Milczanowski,Philip G. Zimbardo / Language(s): English Issue: 03/2022

Fear is one of the strongest motivators. It induces and seals the borderlines between nations, society groups, races, religions, but also family members, students, kids in the neighborhood. We can differ in many things, even strongly conflicting yet with no violence, but when fear appears, especially enforced by lack of responsibility conviction, conflicts turn, step by step into spiral we call “Lucifer Effect”.Politicians who pursue more control in all spheres of life, claim they need this control to protect “us” from “them”. Such extraordinary controlling measures must be taken because all who disagree with “us” are the enemy –“them”, who threat our safety. Such leaders “play”the role of symbolic John Wayne, inducting fear, which make people insecure and looking for strong –uncompromising leader, who will defend “us” from “them”.

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Putin´s declaration of war: discourse, narrative, propaganda

Author(s): Srđan Mladenov Jovanović / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2023

This study presents a comprehensive analysis of the declaration of war speech delivered by Russian President Vladimir Putin, utilizing three distinct yet complementary analytical frameworks: Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), Narrative Analysis (NA), and Propaganda Analysis (PA). Through the application of these methods, the research aims to examine the linguistic features, narrative structures, and propagandistic elements within the speech to better understand the persuasive tactics employed by Putin and the socio-political implications of his rhetoric. The findings of this study contribute to the growing body of literature on political discourse analysis and highlight the value of combining multiple analytical approaches for a more nuanced understanding of political rhetoric. Ultimately, this research emphasizes the significant role that language and narrative play in shaping public opinion and promoting specific political agendas.

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THERAPY OF EMOTIONS IN THE FACE OF THE GREAT WAR

Author(s): Sorin MIHAI / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 24/2021

The Great War (1914-1918) comes along with in – depth change of the emotional universe. Within the writings of some Ego-documents signed by the early twentieth century contemporaries of the events, the portrayed emotions reflect the changes in the image of the war, as well as the effort to adjust to a new reality. The First World War means paramount shifts of the already existing model that will define the evolution of the humanity from that moment on. The Great War contemporaries stand for a generation that will decisively influence the perspective on the "show" caused by the conflagration that changed the destiny of the whole world.

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THE PRESPA AGREEMENT: THE PRICE PAID FOR MACEDONIA’S EUROPEAN INTEGRATION

Author(s): Marijana Nakeva / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 25/2021

This article intends to analyze the issue of constitutional reforms in Macedonia, as implemented under the Prespa Agreement – an international agreement signed on June 17, 2018 by the foreign ministers of the Republic of Macedonia and Greece and the UN mediator on behalf of the dispute – Matei Nimetz. According to the agreement, Macedonia should change its name to Northern Macedonia so that the official name of the country is the Republic of North Macedonia. Officially, the Prespa Agreement is called the “Final Agreement” which resolves the disputes shown in UN Security Council Resolutions no. 817 and 845 of 1993, which replaces the Interim Agreement between Greece and Macedonia of 1995. The interest is to establish a strategic partnership between the parties and to allow the Republic of Macedonia to join the EU and NATO. The main purpose of this article is to establish a clearer picture of the European aspirations of the Republic of Macedonia and the price it has to pay in the context of the break-up of Yugoslavia and the problems it faces.

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Podziały społeczne i ich upolitycznienie jako przykłady toksycznych struktur władzy?

Author(s): Piotr Borowiec / Language(s): Polish Issue: 30/2021

The article reflects the burgeoning academic interest in social cleavages and various ways of their politicization. It addresses their origins, identifi cation, interpretation and also — to a limited extent — the ways they can be applied to politics. Th e article shows that cleavages are historical and social constructs that exist in time. On the other hand, they also confi rm the existence of real divisions and inequalities already present in a social structure. Th e divisions discussed in the paper are, fi rst of all, distinguished through the existing inequalities, their depth, and then the politicization and social-political consequences. At the same time, the cleavages, as phenomena observed at a group level, can also by symptomatic of asymmetric intergroup

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ON THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN NATIONAL IDENTITY AND EUROPEAN IDENTITY

Author(s): Adrian-Claudiu Stoica / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 26/2021

Having a European identity does not conflict with having a national identity. The nation and national identity are imaginary constructions. In the process of building national identity, myths and symbols play an essential role. European identity is based on the promotion of national identities and common cultural elements of European countries.

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POPULIST OFFENSIVE IN ROMANIA. AN EXAMPLE AS A WARNING

Author(s): Vasile Pleşca / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 27/2021

The twenty-first century has experienced enough instances of populist politics to allow analysts to be relatively confident of their identification. What is yet unknown is what their development might be over time. It is not at all clear that there is a pattern of development that they all exemplify. Some populist leaders rose to govern nations, other populists led political associations that have been languishing for years at relatively low levels of performance. Still other populists achieved nothing, disappearing into history with their followers. This study tries to analyze to what extent the populist discourse has chances to impose itself in Romania.

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Ciprian Pripoae-Șerbănescu, Subconștient, comunicare, sens (Subconscious, communication, meaning), TopForm, Bucharest, 2018, 95 p.

Author(s): Ionuț Horeanu / Language(s): English Issue: 28/2022

The volume Subconscious, communication, meaning, published in 2018, by TopForm Publishing House, within the Psychology collection, represents a real contribution in the field of intelligence studies. The author Ciprian Pripoae-Șerbănescu successfully summarizes the concerns in the field of psychology, critical thinking and intelligence, with an emphasis on the persuasive role of communication. After all, the paper can be a starting point for future research, especially due to the interdisciplinary perspective.

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ROMANIAN-RUSSIAN RELATIONS IN THE CONTEXT OF THE CONFRONTATION OF THE INTERESTS OF THE GREAT POWERS IN CENTRAL AND SOUTH-EAST EUROPE (1900-1914)

Author(s): Ștefan-Cristian Florescu / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 29/2022

This article analyzes the evolution of Romanian-Russian relations in the 1900-1914 period. In the run-up to World War I, international relations were dominated by the Great Powers. Romania, in turn, followed, as after obtaining state independence, the line of a foreign policy capable of ensuring its state existence. By the end of the 19th century, the attitude of the great powers towards central and south-eastern Europe was about to change. Pursuing its own economic and political targets, the European Great Powers set out on diametrically opposite paths, and after some calm at the end of the century, the beginning of the twentieth century meant a tumultuous period for the Balkan states and implicitly for Romania's foreign relations.

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Conspiracism and the Shadows of Transparency

Author(s): Radek Chlup / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2021

Following the approach of cultural studies, which views conspiracism as reflecting larger cultural and social anxieties and concerns, the paper argues that one of these anxieties is connected with the modern ideology of transparency. While at first sight a widely shared positive value, transparency can be shown to hide various tensions and paradoxes on closer inspection. This paper interprets conspiracy theories as imaginative attempts at capturing these tensions, at highlighting the inconspicuous opacity of the late modern transparent world and its institutions. Conspiracists are themselves entangled in the modern ideology of transparency, but at the same time, they knock against its boundaries, making explicit the unspoken premises of the entire system in all their paradoxicality. They draw attention to numerous inconsistencies and dark cracks in our late modern social and ideological system, symbolising them through various disturbing narratives that should not be taken literally but that are interesting precisely in that they offer an opportunity to reflect on the limitations of transparency

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Psychologiczna struktura faszyzmu a informacyjna struktura postfaszyzmu

Author(s): Piotr F. Piasek / Language(s): Polish Issue: 27/2021

The article consists of two parts. The first describes the analysis of the fascist movement carried out by Georges Bataille in the 1930s. This philosopher emphasized the psychological determinants responsible for the emergence of a specific fascist unity. The second part presents an analysis of post-fascism symmetrical to Bataille’s. In connection with the social changes diagnosed by the author, the emphasis was placed on information factors. The basic condition considered here is the transformation of the social base and superstructure into domains separate from each other. The article is a part of the 21st-century discussion on the refascization of the political landscape.

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PSIHOLOGIA MEDIULUI ȘI MEDIUL MILITAR

Author(s): Cristian Dobre / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 4/2022

The article briefly presents one of the newest field of general psychology, namely Environmental Psychology, along with its applications and implications in the military environment. Although, apparently, there would be no connection between Environmental Psychology and the military environment, in reality the points of contact between those fields are numerous and complex. Thus, the article, after a brief introduction to the field of reference, focuses on the implications and applications of environmental psychology in the military system. Their discovery and their implementation in real life will represent an important step in ensuring the security of the natural environment, both at the individual level, but especially at the institutional level.

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Profiles of Cognitional, Emotional, and Behavioural Characteristics Influencing Value Systems and Public Policies

Author(s): Kim Young Ki,Lee Yang,Kim Young Gon / Language(s): English Issue: 3/2023

This study purposed to analyze inter-influences among the administrators’ profiles of characteristics, their value systems, and their public policies in the situations of local governments in South Korea. The characteristic profiles are attributed to behavior, emotion, and cognition. The value systems are referred to as economics and job ethics. The public policies were divided into distribution and regulation. The research methods were based on a questionnaire that constructed items for the above three variables and requested Likert scales. The sample size was 1061, recruited from all eight Korean local governments. The results of the structure analysis suggested that the administrators’ decisions about their public policy were influenced by their value systems attributed to their characteristics profiles. Further studies required the application of this study’s paradigm to the diverse values and policies that were limited in this study and to the world’s nations, where the governmental processes are different in economic ideology and political culture from Korean structures.

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PRZESŁANKI STRATEGICZNE PROWADZENIA W POLSCE KAMPANII WYBORCZYCH OPARTYCH NA ODWOŁANIACH DO KOMPETENCJI I UCZCIWOŚCI

Author(s): Wojciech Rafałowski / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2023

The article presents the concept of valence campaigning which is based on references to non-programmatic components of political image, such as competence and integrity. The analysis covers the premises for introducing ref- erences to these characteristics in the campaign derived from the strategic position of competing political parties. The empirical section contains the results of measurement of the frequency of these appeals in the pre-election rhetoric of par- ties participating in parliamentary campaigns in Poland between 2007 and 2019. The Comparative Campaign Dynamics Dataset was used for the study. The results show that the high frequency of arguments related to competence results primar- ily from the advantageous position of a party in the polls as well as its earlier participation in the government. Integrity is mainly emphasized by new parties and, unexpectedly, the ones involved in scandals in the past.

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Kolektif Narsisizmin Siyaset Psikolojisi Açısından Çıktıları Üzerine Bir Derleme

Author(s): İrem Eker / Language(s): Turkish Issue: 28/2023

Collective narcissism is a form of social identity that reflects the convictions about an in-group’s greatness and exceptionality. Since these grandiose beliefs are dependent on getting validation from other groups, those identiying with their in-groups in the narsissistic way have preoccupations about these in-groups being underappraciated. This review aims to provide a comprehensive summary on the outcomes of collective narcissism regarding political psychology in the Turkish literature. Accordingly, the first part of the review includues the theoretical background of collective narcissism and the empirical studies investigating its origins. The second part includes the review of the empirical studies that examined the effects of collective narcissism on politics under four sections (perceptions about country and history, conspiracy theory beliefs, voting preferences and views on democracy, supported policies and applications). The research reviewed demonstrate that collective narcissism studied in the national contexts predicts electorates’ political preferences and beliefs that could have harmful consequences both for internal and external politics. The last part of the review points out research gaps based on the critical analysis of the reviewed studies, and presents future research suggestions for the researchers and students who would like to study on this topic.

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The Pronunciation of the Capital of Ukraine in English-Speaking Media

Author(s): Lina Bikelienė / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2023

Speaker identity is one of the factors that might play a role in the realisation of sounds. Previous studies have observed that phonetic variations, alongside the formation of speaker’s identity, can index political meaning. This article aims at analysing a politically conditioned variation in rendering the name of the capital of Ukraine. Though the change from ‘Kiev’ to ‘Kyiv’ precedes the beginning of the Russian war in Ukraine, the analysis shows 24 February, 2022 has accelerated the process. Contrary to the general tendency for a language change to manifest first in the spoken mode and then proceed to writing, the findings indicate faster shift from ‘Kiev’ to ‘Kyiv’ in written English.

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