Reply to Disclosure Scandals in Romania Political Parties and the Romanian Orthodox Church

• Authors: Adriana Mica
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

In this paper the evolution of specific types of scandals within the field of transitional justice in Romania is shown. Furthermore, the study makes an inquiry into the reactions of different actors, socio-professional categories and organizations to the implementation of the disclosure law in Romania and to the flourishing of several legislative proposals on lustration and decommunization in the years following the 1989 anti-communist revolution. The actors under scrutiny are main political parties and the Romanian Orthodox Church respectively. The cases under review indicate that scandal is a quite versatile institution, and that the outcome of the disclosure scandals might as well be the advancement of disclosure and lustration measures, as well as also the hampering of such initiatives.

Keywords

EN

post-communism; Romanian Orthodox Church; transitional justice; disclosure; scandal

• Publisher: Polskie Towarzystwo Socjologiczne
• Journal: Polish Sociological Review
• Year: 2020
• Volume: 165
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 39-62

Dates

published

2020-08-27

Contributors

author

Adriana Mica

• Graduate School for Social Research, Polish Academy of Sciences