| ISSN: | 1640-1808 |
RESEARCH PAPER
Romania: re-shaping the CSO sector in difficult conditions
1
Faculty of Sociology and Social Work, University of Bucharest
Submission date: 2020-02-01
Acceptance date: 2020-08-24
Publication date: 2020-12-14
Problemy Polityki Społecznej 2020;50:61-75
KEYWORDS
ABSTRACT
Over the past 30 years, civil society organisations (CSOs) in Romania have evolved both in quantitative and qualitative terms. Following the democratic transformation of the Romanian society, the role of CSOs has changed — from mainly being an active critic of the mistakes of the incipient democracy of the ’90s and of the human rights status quo, to becoming an advocator and convener of citizens’ and communities’ interests in participating and benefiting from democratic development. This article represents an overview of the development and transformation of Romanian CSOs in a post-communist society characterised by low trust, corruption, difficult development conditions and weak state capacity. Starting from recent research, we provide information regarding the size, dynamics and specific development trends and current challenges faced by Romanian CSOs.
REFERENCES (24)
1.
Aksatova, S. (2006). Why CSOs? How American donors embrace civil society after the Cold War. The International Journal of Not-for-Profit Law, 8(3), 15–20.
2.
Almog-Bar, M. & Schmid, H. (2013). Advocacy activities of nonprofit human service organizations: A critical review. Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 43(1), 11–35.
3.
Beckfield, J. (2008). Integration and isomorphism among welfare states in the Europe Union. Presentation at the Fourth Pan-European Conference on EU Politics, hosted by European Consortium for Political Research, Riga, Latvia, September 2008. https://www.researchgate.net/p....
4.
Borzel, T. A. & Risse, T. (2000). When Europe hits home: Europeanization and domestic change. European Integration Online Papers (EIoP), 4(15). http://eiop.or.at/eiop/pdf/200....
5.
Carothers, T. (1999). Aiding democracy abroad: The learning curve. The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
6.
Cowles, M. G., Caporaso, J., & Risse, T. (2001). Transforming Europe. Europeanization and domestic change. Cornell University Press.
7.
CSDF (2017). Romania 2017 — The Nongovernmental Sector: Profile, Trends, Challenges. CSDF http://www.fdsc.ro/library/fil... (online in Romanian language, with resume in English).
8.
Howard, M. (2003. The weakness of civil society in post-communist Europe. Cambridge University Press.
9.
Ioan A. (2019). Ertse Stitfung Studies. Civil society in Central and Eastern Europe: Monitoring 2019, Chapter 14: Romania. (121–130). https://issuu.com/erste-founda....
10.
Kendall, J. (2005). Third sector European policy: Organizations between market and state, the policy process and the EU. Third Sector European Policy Working Papers, 1. London School of Economics and Political Science, Center for Civil Society. http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/29007....
11.
Lambru, M & Dobre, A. (2019) in 2018 Report on the State of Civil Society in the EU and Russia, EU-Russia Civil Society Forum e. V, Berlin (79–93). https://eu-russia-csf.org/wp-c....
12.
Lambru, M. & Vamesu, A. (coord) Romania 2010 — The NoCSOvernmental Sector: Profile, Trends, Challenges. Editura Litera (193) (in Romanian language, with resume in English).
13.
Le Gales, P. (2001). Est Maitre Des Lieux Celui Qui Les Organise: How rules change when national and European policy domains collide. In A. S. Sweet, W. Sandholtz, & N. Fligstein (eds), The institutionalization of Europe. (137–154). Oxford University Press.
14.
Mosley, J. E. (2011). Institutionalization, privatization and political opportunity: What tactical choices reveal about the policy advocacy of human services nonprofits. Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 40(3), 435–457.
15.
O’Hagan, E. (2004). Too soft to handle? A reflection on soft law in Europe and accession states. Journal of European Integration, 26(4), 379–403.
16.
Petrova, T. & Tarrow, S. (2007). Transactional and participatory activism in the emerging European polity. The puzzle of East Central Europe. Comparative Political Studies, 40(1), 74–94.
17.
Salamon, L. & Sokolowski, S. W. (2010). The social origins of civil society: Explaining variations in the size and structure of the global civil society sector. Paper presented at the 9th International Conference of the International Society for Third Sector Research, Istanbul, Turkey.
18.
Salamon, L. (2010). Putting the civil society on the economic map of the world. Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics, 81(2), 167–210.
19.
Salamon, L. M. & Geller, S. L. (2008). Nonprofit America: A force for democracy? The Johns Hopkins Listening Post Project: Nonprofit Advocacy and Lobbying. ccss.jhu.edu/wp-content/.../LP_Communique9_2008.pdf.
20.
Salamon, L. M. (2002). Explaining nonprofit advocacy: An exploratory analysis (Working Paper No. 21). Johns Hopkins University, Institute for Policy Studies, Center for Civil Society Studies. http://ccss.jhu.edu/wp-content....
21.
Salamon, L., Anheier, H., List, R., Toepler, S., Sokolowski, S., & Associates (1999). Global civil society. Dimensions of the nonprofit sector. The Johns Hopkins Center for Civil Society Studies.
22.
Salamon, L., Sokolowski, S. W., & Anheier, H. K. (2000). Social origins of civil society: An overview. Working Paper of the Johns Hopkins Comparative Nonprofit Sector Project, No. 38. The Johns Hopkins Center for Civil Society Studies.
24.
Toepler, S., Salamon, L., (2003) NGO development in Central and Eastern Europe: An empirical overview. East Eurepean Quarterly, Fall 2003; 37,3; ABI/INFORM Global.
Share
RELATED ARTICLE
| ISSN: | 1640-1808 |
We process personal data collected when visiting the website. The function of obtaining information about users and their behavior is carried out by voluntarily entered information in forms and saving cookies in end devices. Data, including cookies, are used to provide services, improve the user experience and to analyze the traffic in accordance with the Privacy policy. Data are also collected and processed by Google Analytics tool (more).
You can change cookies settings in your browser. Restricted use of cookies in the browser configuration may affect some functionalities of the website.
You can change cookies settings in your browser. Restricted use of cookies in the browser configuration may affect some functionalities of the website.
