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(2001)
Battle for the future
by Adrian Năstase
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Battle for the future
2001, East European Monographs, Distributed by Colombia University Press
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Table of Contents
Machine generated contents note: PART I
Chapter 1
CHANGE, BEI'WEENUIJOPIA
AND THE NEED FORA POLITICALPROJECI21
1.1 A heavily delayed start, or looking fir the time wasted away
1.2 "Shock therapy" and the jump into the unknown
1.3 Epistemic components of a political project
1.4 Europe's rhythm and Kutuzov's dilemma
Chapter 2
1989- SIGNIFICANCEAND INTERPRETATIONS29
2.1 Moving away from post-factum theorizing
2.2 Finding de facto economic arguments
2.3 Cold War pressure, perestroika and alternatives
to a rigid type of communism
Chapter 3
FROM THE REVOL)TIONTO CHECKING ON DEMOCRACY39
3.1 Revolution and evolutions
3.2 Too young, to rash, too naive
3.3 When legitimacy is disputed and regrettable risks take place
3.4 Difficult beginnings and 'inheritances at war'
Chapter 4
GLOBAIUZATION
ANDTHEFUTUREOFTRANSITION51
4.1 The society of the future - and intelligent network
4.2 Going from socialism to capitalism:
what scapegoat shall we look for?
4.3 The inheritance of the past and the burden of the present
4.4 Education and economy
4.5 The Catcher on the frontier to the future
4.6 Waiting for one's turn in the transition tunnel
Part II
Chapter 5
POLITICAL WILL
AND POLIICAL ELTE- SRUCTURESAND PATTERNS71
5.1 From the masses to the public.
From the politician to the professional specializing
in a political career
5.2 Brief presentation of the elite or
why should intellectuals be so easygoing?
5.3 The story of the schism - the rifts of Romanian society
5.4 Political pragmatism - a necessary, but insufficient condition
5.5 The changes of the political class
Chapter 6
EITIISM POPULISM, SOCIALDEMOCRACY83
6.1 Toward a clientele system
6.2 Political show versus political action
6.3 Technocracy does not save Romania
Chapter 7
POLITICAL WILL VERSUS CIVIL SOCIETY?93
7.1 The laws of Chronos and the infant Romanian democracy
7.2 The Romanian civil society - reductionism, elitism and partisanship
7.3 Public/private partnership - a failed necessity
Chapter 8
ECONOMIC REFORMANDTHETRANSITON MYTHS101
8.1 The role of the state during a transition period
8.2 The state and modern society
8.3 Social democracy and the Welfare State
8.4 Ideology and reform: an unacceptable solution
8.5 Is the reform a matter of state interest?
Part III
Chapter 9
POLITICALPARTIES
BETWEEN IDEOLOGYAND POLITICALCRIS127
9.1 Sterile disputes and calamitous outcomes
9.2 The year 2000 - Evolutions of the Romanian political system
9.3 The attraction of extremism and the ideal of cohesion
9.4 The temptation of the closed system
and the ideological conservation
9.5 Politics - the art of the possible and the utopia of pure ethics
9.6 The political pact: a solution, an opportunity
Chapter 10
POLTICALROMANIA-
THEGAMEOFSUBSTANCELESS FORMS145
10.1 Ideological discourses and the carousel of political parties
10.2 The doctrinal paradox:
a beneficial imperative or a necessary compromise?
10.3 Ideological discourse, a secondary discourse?
Chapter 11
SOCIALDEMOCRACY
BEIWEENHI STORYANDFUTUROLOGY161
11.1 Democratizing of society - a work of political architecture
11.2 Romania and the social-democratic option
Chapter 12
APLEA FORASOCIAL-DEMOCRATROMANIA173
12.1 The premises of transformation - in search of a middle class
12.2 The stakes of the social-democratic governance project
12.3 Remember the future!.
Edition Notes
Includes bibliographical references (p. [257]-262).
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