Romania’s Politics of Dejection

Issue Date July 2001
Volume 12
Issue 3
Page Numbers 156-169
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The elections of 2000 reflected the profound disillusionment of the Romanian electorate with the performance of the centrist government of the past four years, rather than a turn away from democracy itself.

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