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...

The issue of the various interconnections between the discourses on national self and leftist ideologies has long been an important part of the theoretical preoccupations regarding Central and Eastern Europe. The argument of Anton Allahar’s paper is developed in terms of class consciousness...

The article explores the ways in which language is a factor in the generation of social realities. Having as a foundation social constructionism, the appreciative inquiry is a form of intervention in the organisational environment that can produce a rapid change in the way an organisation’s...

We live in a diverse, multicultural, post-colonial world in a time of general crisis, accelerated migration and chaos. My research places a few well-known contemporary novelists within the framework of post-colonial theory. By comparing the works of these contemporary writers in exile to some of...

The aim of this research is to identify and study the discourse opposing the official one in feature films of Soviet cinematographi. The argument is that artistic autonomy existed in Soviet cinematography and it created a niche space for political communication in which a reverse discourse...

Besides its dogma, the Romanian Orthodox Church (BOR) also built itself an ideology. This ideology is not a new one, but is nationalism. Being one of the institutions which have accompanied the modern Romanian state since its establishment up to nowadays, and having an important role within 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...

This study aims to identify the ideological groundwork of public services. It is my opinion that, in an age in which globalisation seems to have undermined the variety of the viewpoints related to how goods and services may be distributed in a given society and in which the global economic...