The Romanian Journal of Political Science (PolSci) is the first Romanian peer-reviewed journal of political science edited and published twice a year by the Romanian Academic Society (SAR) on behalf of the Romanian community of political scientists.

The journal publishes a diverse range of political science articles, especially from fields currently under-covered, such as comparative politics, public policy, political economy, or political psychology, covering Romanian or broader Central or South - East European issues. Papers are theory-grounded and based on solid empirical work.
CURRENT ISSUE   Vol. 22 No. 1, Summer 2022 – General issue  

ABSTRACT | This general issue includes five articles, all of them covering countries in Central and Eastern Europe: two case studies on Romania, one case study on Slovakia, a comparative analysis of democratic consolidation in the region, and an analysis of the Russian propaganda in the context of the war in Ukraine. The first article, by Cristina Stănuș, studies local government compliance with transparency regulations. Developing a context-specific measure for it, Stănuș shows that particular characteristics of the local political and institutional environment - status, size, financial autonomy - influence compliance in Romania. The second article, by George Ștefan and Raluca Andreea Popa, analyzes the relationship between demand-driven clientelism, county-level economic disparities, and preferences with respect to public expenditures. Combining survey data and budgetary data, the authors show that economic difficulties at the local level are associated with a higher chance that individuals are...
PAPERS

Reductio ad Hitlerum: Reflections on the Russian Propaganda of de-Nazification in Ukraine

In the second lecture delivered at the University of Chicago in 1949, political philosopher Leo Strauss postulated reductio ad Hitlerum as a variant version of reductio ad absurdum. The inherent assumption of the argument is that the use of reductio ad Hitlerum as a justification procedure is a substitute maneuver for not having sound and... »

Alternative options for solving the problem of corruption through the activities of NGOs: A case study of Slovakia

The degree of enforcement of political accountability at all levels of government affects the level of corruption. Active civil society shaping public opinion puts pressure on politicians to act responsibly and thus reduces the risk of corrupt practices. Increasing political responsibility is possible through the activities of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) as external actors in public... »

Socio-economic factors driving consolidation of democracies in post-socialist economies

The main aim of the paper is to identify important socio-economic factors affecting the consolidation of democracies in post-socialist economies. The level of democratic environment is evaluated by the Electoral Democracy Index (the V-Dem Project). The influence of socio-economic factors is analyzed from the perspective of Modernization theory, which is compared with the other four... »

Economic disparities and clientelism in Romania. A subnational analysis

This paper analyses the relationship between demand-driven clientelism, economic disparities, and public expenditures at the county level in Romania. Using several economic and social indicators we realize an in-depth analysis of economic development disparities in Romania concerning the clientelistic incidence of the Romanian parties. The latter was based on an extensive original survey developed in... »

Leaders, institutions, or context? Explaining local government compliance with transparency regulations in Romania

The paper proposes a contextualized approach to local government transparency and its determinants. It starts by briefly discussing the distinction between local government compliance with transparency regulations and broader/more substantial local government transparency. A context-dependent measure of local government compliance with transparency regulation is built for the Romanian case and used to showcase significant variation... »

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