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...

International organizations have developed as derived subjects of international law without substitute the role and the importance of the states as fundamental actors in adopting policies that go beyond national powers. Therewith, national governments tendency to impose the rules of procedure at...

The paper provides a cultural analysis of the first official document used to regulate the government of the American colonies, and aims at highlighting the fact that the most important political legacy of the Puritan world to the modern American world is the concept of government by mutual consent.

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...

Two forms of universalism, two global phenomena, Human Rights and Globalization involve states in different manners. The way globalization acts on the economic, political rights and which are the visible consequences of this process and, at the same time, which is the role of human rights in the...

The central hypothesis underlying this paper is that public intellectuals play a particularly important role in the plan of democratic operation. Being a part of the elites whose agreement is necessary in order to maintain the public opinion’s confidence in the functioning of the political...

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...

The analysis of the post-communist transition phenomenon has usually encompassed two fundamental components: the democratization of political establishments and the privatization of the economy. However, there are also studies focusing on the collective mind and the social patterns and imagery....