Romania’s Road to “Normalcy”

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…

In Romania today, as in Italy twenty years ago, the gradual politicization of anticorruption has come to shape the political scene.

The populist backlash against corruption, the CEE transition-era elites, and the liberal consensus has led to a democratic crisis, but does not portend systemic change.