CEU eTD Collection (2007); Andriescu, Monica: PATTERNS OF MINORITY AND MAJORITY RHETORIC IN POST-COMMUNIST ROMANIA: Compromises on Language and Education Rights (1996-2004)

CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2007
Author Andriescu, Monica
Title PATTERNS OF MINORITY AND MAJORITY RHETORIC IN POST-COMMUNIST ROMANIA: Compromises on Language and Education Rights (1996-2004)
Summary The present paper critically analyzes minority and majority rhetoric in post-communist Romania with the purpose of uncovering the key factors that have shaped and shifted majority and minority rhetoric on language and education rights toward relatively accommodating stances. The research identifies EU conditionality and domestic political alliances as two main determining factors: while the former has been an external pressure on the Romanian government, the latter may be translated in domestic political terms as a process of negotiation aimed at the institutionalization of minority rights. A second level of research examines the limits in the majority’s willingness to compromise on the extension the legal-institutional minority rights framework beyond the “autonomy threshold”.
Supervisor Varady, Tibor
Department Nationalism Studies MA
Full texthttps://www.etd.ceu.edu/2007/andriescu_monica.pdf

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