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Regional Design, Local Autonomy, and Ethnic Struggle: Romania’s Syncopated Regionalisation

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  • Dragoş Dragoman
  • Bogdan Gheorghiţă

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Despite many institutional features being changed during the post-communist transition, the regional administration in Romania witnessed a very limited change in post-communist times. Although it was a total political failure, the recent reshaping of the regional administration triggered a vivid public and scholarly interest on the matter. The purpose of the article is to shed new light on political constraints operating when it comes to reshaping regional design in Romania. Whereas official arguments pointed towards the necessity to address EU conditionality, the reshape was more likely underpinned by the government’s attempt to gain electoral advantages in the local elections scheduled for 2012. The decisive opposition made to the project by the Democratic Alliance of Hungarians in Romania (Uniunea Democrată a Maghiarilor din Romania) reveals the importance that ethnic factors have played in this context.

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  • Dragoş Dragoman & Bogdan Gheorghiţă, 2016. "Regional Design, Local Autonomy, and Ethnic Struggle: Romania’s Syncopated Regionalisation," Europe-Asia Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 68(2), pages 270-290, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:ceasxx:v:68:y:2016:i:2:p:270-290
    DOI: 10.1080/09668136.2015.1136594
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