A tranzitológiának vége, felejtsük el? Az átmenet tervezett intézményeitől a tervezetlen hibridizációig

Author(s): Ervin Csizmadia / Language(s): Hungarian / Issue: 2/2016

The essay focuses on answering the question of what happened to transitology, the main narrative of the 1989–90 process of democratization, after it prevailed. The theory lasted for just one decade and already at the beginning of the millennium Thomas Carothers declared the end of transitology. However, many things happened between its birth and demise. This essay aims to map this intermediate phase, as well as to present two experiments for the theoretical adaptation of transitology: the theories concerning the foundation and consolidation of institutions, and those concerning the creation of hybrid and illiberal regimes. The analysis would like to call attention to the fact that the theories of the period of transition were far from identical, they went through serious changes during the 90s. These changes however came about not outside of the trend, but within, therefore the approach of the founding theory pervades these pieces of writing. In some places the essay refers to criticisms incurred by transition theories, nevertheless, these are external critiques of transitology, therefore the essay only speaks of these tangentially. The author comes to the conclusion that though transitology has run out of wind, the theoretical and attitudinal lessons of it remain largely unprocessed to this day.

ANDRZEJ JAN CHODUBSKI, WSTĘP DO BADAŃ POLITOLOGICZNYCH WYDAWNICTWO UNIWERSYTETU GDAŃSKIEGO, GDAŃSK 2004

Author(s): Kazimierz Lastawski / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 03/2006

Approaches in the Political Science Today

Author(s): Ciprian Iftimoaei / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2015

In over 2,000 years of existence, approaches in political science evolved from philosophical and normative reflections on various forms of organization of the ancient world to contemporary interdisciplinary approaches based on refining concepts and theories accumulated over time and the use of complex research methodologies, own or borrowed from related fields of studies such as sociology, political psychology, econometrics, advanced statistics. Although quantitative approaches prevails in contemporary research, does not lack political philosophy studies, theoretical and ideological approaches, inspired by everyday realities and empirical research results.

Centrum federalne wobec problemu aktywności międzynarodowej regionów w kontekście ewolucji stosunków federacyjnych w Rosji

Author(s): Michal Slowikowski / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 3/2016

The paper’s aim is to explore the federal-regional model of relations as far as international activities of regions is concerned. A persistent centralization tendency,applied to the federal-regional model of relations and started under Vladimir Putin’s presidency, has created an unusual concept of centralist coordination concerning the international activity of regions. Despite the federal dominance over regions, the concept is far from being consolidated, since the Kremlin lacks the resources, mainly human, to fully control the political situation in the regions. Yet, this evolving centralist concept seems to be detrimental not only to regions’ interest, but also questions the strength of Putin’s model of an authoritarian regime in the long term.

Diplomacy and Diplomatic Protocol

Author(s): Oana Iucu / Language(s): English / Issue: 8/2012

The present study aims to observe relationships and determining factors between diplomacy and diplomatic protocol as outlined by historical and contextual analyses. The approach is very dynamic, provided that concepts are able to show their richness, antiquity and poly-valence at the level of connotations, semantics, grammatical and social syntax. The fact that this information is up to date determines an attitude of appreciation and a state of positive contamination.

Ecological Humanities

Author(s): Ewa Domanska / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2015

The article will define and identify features of the ecological humanities understood as a symptom of the emergence of a new scientific paradigm. I am interested particularly I ecoposthumanities– a tendency that is developing since the late nineties in the frame of posthumanist criticism of anthropocentrism, Eurocentrism and Western science. The paper will indicate the role of traditional ecological knowledges and native knowledges as well as the development of biohumanities (an inclusive type of knowledge that connects human, social sciences and life sciences) as important aspects of ecoposthumanities. The ecological humanities offers an utopian vision of meta-communities of humans and non-humans based on symbiotic relations, co-evolution and co-dependency and anticipates future knowledge productions in terms of extended mind and distributed cognition.

Epistemic Value of Public deliberation in a Democratic Decision-мaking Process

Author(s): Ivan Cerovac / Language(s): English,Bulgarian / Issue: 4/2016

This paper discusses the epistemic value of public deliberation in a democratic decision-making process. I first discuss David Estlund’s standard account of epistemic democracy – in order to be legitimate, a decision must be a result of both fair and epistemically reliable procedure, i.e., of procedure that in most cases leads us to (procedure-independent) correct outcomes. This approach is characterized by the idea that democratic deliberation only has instrumental epistemic value, i.e., serves as a good means to achieve desired ends – a high correctness probability of the outcomes. I defend this approach from three objections put forward by Fabienne Peter, who claims that Estlund’s position is not a practicable conception of democratic legitimacy, that it makes unnecessary demands and that it is normatively misleading. Finally, I argue against pure epistemic proceduralism, an alternative approach that tends to reject consequentialist epistemology in favor of proceduralist epistemology. By doing so, it has lost a way to evaluate the epistemic value of (deliberative) democratic procedures, and is thus vulnerable to the problem of various (reasonable) people holding different epistemic practices and disagreeing on which practice should be the one that is epistemically valuable and that produces legitimate decisions.

Europinė dimensija Lietuvos referendumų kampanijose

Author(s): Aušrine Jurgelionyte / Language(s): Lithuanian / Issue: 71/2015

The referenda of the 21st century were also inevitably related with the European dimension: the referendum in 2003 on the membership of the Republic of Lithuania in the European Union (EU); the referendum of 2008 on exceeding the operation of the Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant (INPP); the referendum of 2013 on building a new nuclear power plant in the Republic of Lithuania; and the referendum of 2014 on land for sale to foreigners. These four referenda are the object of this paper. It analyses the reflections of the European dimension in the referenda campaigns. The campaign slogans are mainly taken into account when reconstructing various discursive devices. The explanatory power of the new institutionalism (discursive) theories is discussed.

Housing Policy and Housing Market in Serbia

Author(s): Snežana S. Ðordevic,Dora Z. Petronijevic, / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2015

This article analyses housing policy and the quality of housing market in Serbia. Housing policy is analyzed in connection with policy of spatial and urban planning and building and construction policy, focusing on the housing availability as vital need in everyday life for each person, family and community in general. Numerous researches show that this policy field in Serbia has been pretty neglected, letting citizens alone to find their way on housing market. Above all that, this policy field is centralized, poorly coordinated between state and local government, and local government as important actor, still doesn`t have enough competencies and capacities for this kind of activity. The analysis of housing market focuses on the most important factors that influence the housing demand and supply. Through empirical research was predicted how long it will take for housing to be approachable to population. The aim of this paper is to show the possible way for development of housing policy in Serbia, to procure more affordable housing market for citizens, upgrading the quality of their lives. The main methods used in this study are: analysis (quantitative and qualitative), comparative analysis, empirical research, and predictions of future developmental scenarios. The paper has two parts: housing policy and housing market.

Hranice a cezhraničná spolupráca. Úvod do výskumu hraníc. Prešov: ADIN s.r.o. 2017. 152 s. ISBN 978-80-89540-89-1.

Author(s): Jurij Ostapec / Language(s): Slovak / Issue: 1/2017

O.: Duleba, A. a kol.: Hranice a cezhraničná spolupráca. Úvod do výskumu hraníc. Prešov: ADIN s.r.o. 2017. 152 s. ISBN 978-80-89540-89-1

Hu Chunhua – dotychczasowa kariera i szanse na awans

Author(s): Dominik Michonski / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 10/2016

The article aims to describe the political career of one of the most promising members of the so-called sixth generation of Chinese leaders, Hu Chunhua. Hu, a protégé of the former Secretary Hu Jintao, is currently a strong candidate for a place in the Standing Committee of the CPC’s Politburo, whose members will be officially appointed next year. However, there are several indications that Hu’s political future may not look as bright as in 2012, at the beginning of Xi Jinping’s first term of office. The conclusion of the paper therefore aims to critically assess Hu Chunhua’s chances of future promotion in the context of the changing political status quo.

Impact strategic

Frequency: 4 issues / Country: Romania

Impact Strategic is the Romanian edition of Strategic Impact, an academic open access quarterly, edited by the Centre for Defence and Security Strategic Studies (CDSSS) since 2001, published by „Carol I” National Defence University Publishing house.

The publication gathers a Scientific Board of academic professors and researchers who evaluate the scientific content of the submitted papers according to double blind peer review process. Previous to the evaluation, the papers are subject to a process of anti-plagiarism analysis (www.sistemantiplagiat.ro).

Strategic Impact collaborates with leading figures in the field of national and international scientific research and military and civilian higher education, from the Romanian Ministry of National Defence, General Staff, military services, the Ministry of Interior, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, military units and other state institutions, non-governmental organisations, companies, etc.

The quarterly publishes analyses, syntheses and evaluations of strategic level, points of view which study the impact of national, regional and global actions dynamics, on the following topics: security and defence related issues; security and military strategies; NATO and EU policies, strategies and actions; political-military topicality; geopolitics and international relations; future of conflict; peace and war; information society, intelligence community.

Inauguracja prezydentury Andrzeja Dudy jako zespół roszczeń legitymizacyjnych

Author(s): Malgorzata Kolodziejczak / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 3/2016

The author of this paper analyzes a specific political fact, namely the inauguration of presidency in modern democratic systems. Focusing on the inauguration of Andrzej Duda’s presidency, the author answers the question of whether this extensive range of activities (encompassing the act of swearing in, symbolical acts, presidential address and other speeches) is an element of a consciously created legitimacy claim made by the president-elect. Answering this question in the affirmative, the author illustrate show the claims that refer to all three of Weber’s types of legitimacy are encompassed in the successive parts of the inauguration: the swearing in refers to the legal element of legitimacy, an extensive range of symbolical acts refers to tradition, whereas the presidential address introduces yet another element justifying legitimacy, this time resulting from the heritage of Lech Kaczyński’s charisma.

Innovation Management, Entrepreneurship and Sustainability (IMES 2018)

Proceedings of the 6th International Conference Innovation Management, Entrepreneurship and Sustainability

Author(s): / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 2018

The 6th International Conference Innovation Management, Entrepreneurship and Sustainability (IMES 2018) took place on May 31 – June 1, 2018 at the University of Economics, Prague. The conference was organised by the Department of Entrepreneurship of the University of Economics, Prague, Czech Republic in cooperation with other partners. Sound keynote speakers – Roy Thurik (Erasmus University Rotterdam), Ute Stephan (Aston Business School), Michael Fritsch (Friedrich Schiller University Jena), Stefan Schaltegger (Leuphana University Lüneburg), Marina Dabič (University of Zagreb and Nottingham Trent University), Martin Srholec (CERGE-EI) and Jiří Hnilica (University of Economics, Prague), discussed the trends in the fields of innovation management, entrepreneurship and sustainability. The conference aimed to achieve academic excellence in a regional context and to establish a platform for mutual collaboration, exchange and dissemination of ideas among researchers and professionals. These conference proceedings contain contributions of the conference participants presented during both days of the conference. Authors of papers come from 30 countries all over the world, namely from Australia, Bangladesh, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Ghana, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Iran, Italy, Netherlands, Paraguay, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Turkey, USA, Vietnam. All these contributions have successfully passed the doubleblind peer-review process.

Institutionalisation of the Analytical Support Function to Ensure Credibility of Defence Management

Canada, Norway, Sweden and NATO Case Study

Author(s): Josef Procházka / Language(s): English / Issue: MC/2017

The paper outlines several recommendations for strengthening the institutional framework of the analytical support function for credible defence management. Recommendations are drawn based on the outcome of the institutional research project named Strategic Alternatives conducted by the Centre for Security and Military Strategic Studies of University of Defence (CSMSS). The multi-objective research focuses on organisational arrangement of the analytical support function within the overall ministry of defence organisational architecture of several countries (Canada, Norway, Sweden) as well as the NATO structure and management (in this case, the main focus embraces the analytical support to defence planning).

Instrumentet e Diplomacisë parlamentare: Rasti i Italisë

Author(s): Ervis Iljazaj / Language(s): Albanian / Issue: 1/2014

Lately, we have seen that alongside traditional foreign policy lead by governments there is also a new, informal kind of foreign relations, that is widespread and it involves directly or indirectly parliamentary structures. In some cases, these inter-parliamentary activities create short-term and transitory initiatives, but, in other cases, they bring to life stable and permanent forms of collaboration. In this context, in the last years, it has been created an “environment” of inter-parliamentary relations that represents a valuable tool for solving issues among countries, even in hard moments. These collaboration practices between national parliaments are known as “parliamentary diplomacy”. This analysis will look at “parliamentary diplomacy”, focusing on Italy as its case study: created in 2001 to direct the collaboration among National Assemblies in order to participate in international governance. This study will analyze the instruments of “parliamentary diplomacy” by also looking at other cases, such as the inter-parliamentary dialog between European and Asian nations.

Izbori i izborni sustavi

Metodološki prinosi

Author(s): Andelko Milardovic-Ivankovic,Wilko Zicht,Martin Fehndrich / Language(s): Croatian / Publication Year: 2003

This book offers an overview of different election systems, with their specific features, rules and methods. Case studies include Austria, Denmark, Ireland, Germany, UK, USA, Croatia and the European Union. With contributions by Martin Fehndrich and Wilko Zicht.

Je li egalitarni sindrom samo teorijska fantazija? Empirijski hommage Josipu Županovu

Author(s): Aleksandar Štulhofer,Ivan Buric / Language(s): Croatian / Issue: 03/2015

The egalitarian syndrome theory (EST), proposed in 1970 by Croatian political scientist and sociologist Josip Županov (1923-2004), is likely the most important theoretical contribution to the Croatian social sciences. Due to the fact that EST has never been operationalized and systematically verified, its influence has been steadily diminishing – particularly among mainstream researchers. The aim of this study is to operationalize EST and, using confirmatory factor analytic approach, to construct and validate a multi-faceted measure of the egalitarian syndrome. Based on two models characterized by acceptable fit to data, the authors propose a longer version (27-item long) and a shorter version (15-item long) of the Egalitarian Syndrome Scale. The initial validation of the scale suggests that the composite measure can be useful in a wide range of social science studies. For the first time, Županov’s claim that egalitarianism remains a persisting obstacle to the country’s socioeconomic development can be rigorously tested.

K teorii schopnosti ozbrojených sil

Author(s): Milan Kubeša,Radek Dubec / Language(s): Czech / Issue: 3/2013

The paper presents reflections over the issue of armed forces capabilities. It is a phenomenon much discussed and written earlier, namely from the point of its building, estimation and development. Nevertheless the question is whether practical experiences are backed by theory fundamentals. Now we have a chance to introduce the live theory of quality management [1] into this specific and frequented military problem. The article is a polemic consideration over possibilities of introducing capabilities management into command and control capabilities system in armed forces.