(RE)SHAPING POLITICAL CULTURE AND PARTICIPATION THROUGH SOCIAL NETWORKS

Author(s): Marija Andreeva / Language(s): English / Issue: 02/2019

The influence of social networks is growing intensely. They do not only influence only certain aspects of our lives, but they also influence political participation and political culture. In recent years, this influence has been very notable. We have seen a change of policies as a result of pressure, a lot of significant political movements started via social networks. This paper concentrates on the influence of social networks on political participation and political culture. The paper tries to foresee the future implications and the intertwining of social networks and political culture and political participation. It also gives conclusions for the past, present and future implications and it gives a comparison between political participation before and after the rise of social networks. It also analyses the positive and negative implications that social network could have on political participation.

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.

Access to Public Information as a Political Sciences Technique: What and How Should Be Studied, and What for?

Author(s): Marcin Wałdoch / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2019

Access to public information in Poland is most typically discussedin the legal and political contexts. However, it is not consciouslydiscussed as a possibility for political scholars to exercise their right ofaccess to public information. This paper, which is of postulatory nature,identifies the benefits for those political scholars who decide to use, inthe process of data collection, their right of access to public informationas a data collection technique. The proposed technic of data collectionmay be used by scholars – political scientists around the world.

ACTIVITATEA DE CERCETARE ŞTIINŢIFICĂ, DEZVOLTARE TEHNOLOGICĂ ŞI INOVARE UN DOMENIU STRATEGIC NEGLIJAT

Author(s): I. Gabriel Năstase / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: 20/2014

The problems regarding funding of the R&D area (below 0.5% of GDP), below the majority level of EU countries, deficitary (including the presence of corruption) organizing of R&D activity, destruction of human resources, of specialists who work in the R & D area, their humiliation and lack of social dialogue, are the main factors who contribute systematically, for 25 years, "step by step", to the irreversible destruction of R & D.

AKSJONORMATYWNY PARADYGMAT NAUKI PRAWA ADMINISTRACYJNEGO I JEGO METODOLOGICZNE KONSEKWENCJE DLA NAUKI ADMINISTRACJI I NAUKI POLITYKI ADMINISTRACYJNEJ

Author(s): Sławomir Peszkowski / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 28/2020

Normative constructions of administrative law are the function of values distinguished for the common good (public’s well-being). In parallel, administrative law creates the basis for the performance of public administration, whose differentia specifica is the realization or protection of legally relevant values in a direct manner. From the perspective of these general assumptions, it becomes justified to conceptualize the axionormative paradigm of the science of administrative law as a research concept applicable to detailed research, without the need to reconstruct the theoretical and methodological basis each time. This provides the universal theoretical and methodological basis for dogmatic studies in the field of administrative law. From the perspective of the triad of administrative science, the acceptance of the axionormative paradigm in the science of administrative law provides the basis for reconstructing theoretically adequate and coherent methodological assumptions in relation to the science of administration and the science of administrative policy. These assumptions can be put in the form of an axionormative explanatory scheme adapted to the specifics of these sciences. The assumption of an axionormative explanatory scheme in the field of science of administration and science of administrative policy allows for an adequate identification of eufunctions and dysfunctions of public administration, in a way that respects the constitutive conditions of public administration in a democratic state ruled by law.

Almondov koncept političkog sistema

Author(s): Štefica Deren-Antoljak / Language(s): Croatian / Issue: 02/1986

In spite of the fact that American political science is comparatively well developed, before the 1950s there have been no comprehensive analyses nor any comparative research into the problems of contemporary political systems. During the last twenty years new analytical instruments, procedures and techniques for the study of political processes have been worked out, and an enormous amount of empirical material concerning political systems both in developed and in developing countries has been collected. All this has made it possible that a method of comparative analysis should be established, that can also be applied to contemporary political systems. In American political science Gabriel Almond has particular merits for the elaboration of a comparative method in that field. This paper deals with the efforts of G. Almond, J. Coleman, and B. Powell to work out a theoretical approach convenient for the comparison of contemporary political systems.

Analiză Asupra Statelor Democratice cu Privire la Diminuarea Drepturilor Omului în Timpul Pandemiei de Sars-Cov-2

Author(s): Flavius Cristian Mărcău / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: 15/2020

The year 2020 is a serious test for current democratic societies. If the twentieth century was marked by the two world wars, the twentieth century is tested by a pandemic due to the sars-cov-2 virus,guilty of covid-19 disease. The governments of the world have acted to stop the spread of the virus, limiting therights and freedoms of citizens, and the population has become more and more hopeful. In our study, wepropose to analyze the measures that democratic governments have applied, and still apply them, wanting tounderstanding if the democratic states become fragile.Authority, Democratic Consolidation, Covid-19, Sars-Voc-2,Democracy

ANALIZA LEGISLAŢIEI ANTITERORISTE ROMÂNE. PERSPECTIVĂ COMPARATIVĂ ASUPRA REGLEMENTĂRILOR INTERNE

Author(s): Robert Dragos / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: 1/2018

The 9/11 terrorist attacks upon the United States urged Romania to criminalise terrorist acts by adopting the Government Emergency Ordinance no. 141/2001 on punishment of terrorist acts and breaching the public order provisions. The first stage of response, the Government Emergency Ordinance no. 141/2001, becomes insufficient to prevent and fight efficiently against terrorism, as a result in 2004 is adopted Law no. 535/2004 on preventing and combating terrorism, a complex law which consists of five chapters and 47 articles. Several amendments have been made to the Law in order to respond adequatly and efficiently to emerging threats. The paper presents a comparative analysis between the GEO no. 141/2001 on punishment of terrorist acts and breaching the public order provisions and Law no. 535/2004 on preventing and combating terrorism.

And Yet the Black Sea Can Be an Essential Geostrategic Pivot in the Solution of Euro-Asiatic Endogenous Conflictuality

Author(s): Sebastian-Gabriel Popescu / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

One of the geopolitical and geostrategic synthesis key areas on the strategic axis Black Sea - Baltic Sea reluctance re-opened following the Ukrainian crisis is the more or less extensive Black Sea region. The historical, political, economic and civilian arguments, as well as the new challenges of the regional security environment, but also cross-border and global, leave the great powers on both sides of the strategic axis Black Sea - Baltic and riparian countries a chance that we consider not only an alternative to ... war, otherness, but also a way of transforming divergences into confluences and confluence in unity, prosperity and security. Even though the complicated and tense realities at this point seem not to encourage such a prospect, we believe that the Black Sea area can become − and indeed become − an East-West welding space, a true geopolitical and geostrategic, economic, social synapse and inter-civilization, which will put an end to the strategic flaw effect here in bitter weather. In the following, we will present this point of view.

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

Author(s): Kazimierz Łastawski / 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.

Badania nad działalnością legislatur – interdyscyplinarny obszar nauki

Author(s): Jacek K. Sokołowski / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 3/2008

Badania nad populizmem w Polsce

Author(s): Aleksandra Murzańska / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 4/2011

Benchmarking w doskonaleniu podstawowej jednostki samorządu terytorialnego. Korzyści i ograniczenia

Author(s): Stanisław Nowosielski,Dorota Sało / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 3.2/2015

The paper firstly presents the essence and the specification of using benchmarking in the public sector entities.It also describes the benchmarking methodology in the City Hall in Dzierzoniow. Particular emphasis is placed onshowing generally presented defects and weaknesses of the method and verifyingvalidity of their occurence in the local government units.

Between Contextualization and Comparison: A Thorny Relationship between East European Studies and Disciplinary “Mainstreams”

Author(s): Jan Kubik / Language(s): English / Issue: 02/2015

The essay introduces five principles of an approach that helps to combine context sensitivity with generalizing ambition necessary for any serious comparative work. It also offers a list of five areas where East European experts are or should be making major contributions to the “general” knowledge while remaining attentive to the “specificities” of their region. It emphasizes a dialogue among scholars of several theoretical and methodological persuasions. Such synthetic/syncretic studies—also in the study of power and politics—may and often do begin with the work of researchers who construct panoramic vistas (via large-N statistical work) and/or reconstruct mechanisms of individual decision making (via game theoretic models). Nevertheless, they cannot do without the work of those who delve into the details of social processes (via sociological analysis); those who decipher the intricacies of meaning creation, transmission, and decoding (via interpretive work); and those who are able to place all of this in proper historical contexts.

BRIDGING THE GAP BETWEEN THEORY AND PRACTICE IN ACCOUNTING

Author(s): Delia Corina MIHĂLŢAN / Language(s): English / Issue: 20/2019

The current paper aims at raising awareness about the differences between theory and practice in accounting. It focuses on the logical path that a student or a novice in this field must follow in order to apply theoretical knowledge into practice. The role, the structure, and the features of the financial information system (as part of the informational system of the entity) are presented in comparison with the accounting ledgers used in the traditional accounting (where transactions were recorded manually). These ledgers are the starting point of any accounting when acquiring the practical knowledge. In addition, the paper considers the didactic principles most suitable to bridge the gap between theory and practice in accounting.

Carl Schmitt as a Resource for Democratic Consolidation Studies. The Case of the President’s Impeachment in Lithuania

Author(s): Zenonas Norkus / Language(s): English / Issue: 04/2008

This article is a case study of the recent impeachment of President Paksas of Lithuania, exploring the heuristic value of Carl Schmitt’s extremalist methodology for research on the institutional dimension of democratic consolidation. This methodology considers the performance of the democratic regime under extreme or exceptional conditions as the test of its consolidation. As presidential and semipresidential regimes are predisposed to evolve into authoritarian regimes and delegative democracies, effective use of the impeachment procedure can be considered to be the positive Schmittean test of the state of democratic consolidation for a political system involved in democratic transition.

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

Author(s): Michał Słowikowski / 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.

Conceptual Metaphors of Identity in Contemporary Romanian Public Discourse: A Cognitive and Quantitative Approach

Author(s): Simina-Maria Terian / Language(s): English / Issue: Suppl. 1/2019

By using the Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT), Comparative Imagology (CI) and a corpusbased approach, this article studies the frequency and the content of conceptual metaphors of Romanian and European identity in the Romanian public discourse of 2012–2018. Our working practice focuses on the systematization of the characteristic occurrences of the Romanian autoand hetero-images, the comparison of the two series of data, as well as the analysis of the dominant trend therein, in relation to the previous time interval (2007–2011). The conclusions of the article concern the increase or decrease in the Romanian speakers’ interest in identity-related problems, the structure of each identity ethno-profile, with a special attention paid to the relationship between the negative and the positive traits assigned to the two communities, as well as the analysis of the extent to which the Romanians have assumed a European identity, at the level of their public discourse.

Constructing the Muslim Threat: A Critical Analysis of Marine Le Pen’s Twitter Posts During the 2017 French Election Campaign

Author(s): Nihad Ahmić,Adis Maksić / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2020

In recent years, the radical right-wing has been gaining ground in international politics. This analysis seeks to advance scholarly understandings of a major theme of right-wing discourse in Europe, the portrayal of Muslims as a threatening ethnoreligious other. It focuses on the Twitter activity of Marine Le Pen, the leader of the French right-wing National Rally (called National Front at the time) and former presidential candidate. Building on original research that extracted hundreds of tweets posted during the 2017 French presidential elections campaign, the study subjects 110 most popular tweets to a critical analysis. It shows that Le Pen’s discourse worked to amplify prejudices and existential fears in ways that could appeal both to the radicals and the mainstream, thus creating demand for a national saviour.