Romania's politics of dejection

Journal of Democracy

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 156-169

  Pop Eleches, Grigore ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 0035628428     PISSN: 10455736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/jod.2001.0055     Document Type: Review

References (20)

1. In July, just before he decided to enter the presidential race, Isarescu's popularity reached 66 percent, higher than any other politician at the moment. See IMAS survey, July 2000.
2. According to an IMAS opinion poll on 12-15 November 2000, available at www.imas.ro.
3. See, for example, "Former Chief of Romania Retakes Office over Rightist," New York Times, 11 December 2000.
4. Data from the 2000 CD-ROM edition of International Financial Statistics.
5. These figures include the vote share of the smaller liberal factions that ran separately in both 1996 and 2000 and failed to cross the threshold for parliamentary representation.
6. Ironically, in a display of political myopia, the CDR did not even consider the possibility of missing the electoral threshold and had supported raising it.
7. See Michael Shafir, "Romania's Road to 'Normalcy,'" Journal of Democracy 8 (April 1997): 144-58.
8. România Mare (Bucharest), 29 August 1998, cited in Evenimentul Zilei (Bucharest).
9. România Mare (Bucharest), 29 August 1998, cited in Evenimentul Zilei (Bucharest).
10. See the exhaustive list published in Monitorul (Bucharest), 5 December 2000.
11. According to an IMAS poll from September 2000 (available at www.imas.ro), Vadim Tudor was expected to win 10 percent of the vote, compared to 15 percent for Isarescu, 19 percent for Stolojan, and 43 percent for Iliescu.
12. Cited in Expres (Bucharest), 21 January 1999, available at www.expres.ro/arhive/ 1999/ianuarie/21/investigatiil6-5.html.
13. Of course, in doing so, the PRM chose to ignore the fact that it had supported and even taken part in the PDSR-led government until 1996.
14. While this percentage is indeed very high, I doubt that it would be much lower in most countries of Eastern or even Western Europe.
15. Remarkably, in Transylvania, where the overwhelming majority of Hungarians live, only 15 percent of respondents objected to Hungarian neighbors, compared to 33 percent for the country as a whole.
16. See the Soros public-opinion barometer (available at www.sfos.ro) and the IMAS survey on 12-15 November 2000.
17. Sec Central and Eastern Eurobarometer 7 and 8, from November 1996 and November 1997, respectively. Unfortunately, no comparable crossnational data are available for 1999-2000.
18. See "Haider, But More So: Romania's Unlovely Presidential Aspirant," Guardian (London), 29 November 2000.
19. These figures were obtained by identifying respondents who would not want Hungarians, Jews, or Gypsies as neighbors.
20. See Michael Shafir, "Radical Continuity in Romania: The Greater Romania Party (B)," East European Perspectives, 13 September 2000, available at www.rferl.org/eepreport.