Contemporary means of communication and especially television have the capacity to fully exploit the primary passions. However, instead of becoming instruments of democracy they turned frequently into instruments of symbolic exploitation. Symbolic violence is that particular type of violence...

The word parrhêsia appears for the first time in Greek literature and it is ordinarily translated by "free speech". For Michel Foucault, the term is central to its concerns over the last years of life, especially in courses at the Collège de France in 1983 and 1984, giving the concept of...

This paper proposes an insight into the recent history of post-communist societies of Central and Eastern Europe, with the benchmark on the "great transformation" in the revolutionary year 1989. Starting from an attempt to define "post-communism", in relation to the communist project and...

Nowadays, state reform is a fundamental theme for public authorities and the civil society and its major goals are to reduce bureaucracy, to increase transparency in decision-making (democratisation) and to transfer competence toward local communities. All these political-economic targets come...

Two major trends may be observed in the modern development of the administrative phenomenon: centralism and decentralization. The former spanned throughout the 19th century and first three quarters of the 20th century whereas the latter characterizes mainly the last four decades. However, it is...

In the contemporary world, collective goods are essential products emerging from the actions of administrative authorities (in partnership with other social and economistakeholders) being politically structured and legally regulated within the broad fields of public policies. Subject to the...

The state’s involvement in the management of social problems has followed a windy road during the last century, from the classical liberal laissez-faire to stressed and all-encompassing interventionism. The state’s action or non-action in relation to the regulating mechanisms of the social...

Contemporary means of communication, and especially television have the capacity to fully exploit the primary passions. However, instead of becoming instruments of democracy they turned frequently into instruments of symbolic exploitation. Symbolic violence is that particular type of violence...

The word parrhêsia appears for the first time in Greek literature and it is ordinarily translated by "free speech". For Michel Foucault, the term is central to its concerns over the last years of life, especially in courses at the Collège de France in 1983 and 1984, giving the concept of...

Under Alexander the Great the Greeks conquered Asia. This extraordinary undertaking was made possible, beside the military achievement, by the Greek thought and philosophy. The belief in the superiority of the Greek over the barbarian and freedom of the first and slavery of the second rendered...