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U N I V E R S I T A T E A D I N C R A I O V A F A C U L T A T E A D E Ş T I I N Ţ E S O C I A L E S P E C I L I Z A R E A Ş T I I N Ţ E P O L I T I C E Nr. 29 • 2011 ---RREEFFEERREENNCCEESS--- GHEORGHE VLĂDUŢESCU (Romanian Academy), ALEXANDRU BOBOC (Romanian Academy), FLORIN CONSTANTINIU (Romanian Academy), CRISTIAN PREDA (University of Bucharest), LAURENTIU VLAD (University of Bucharest), VLADIMIR OSIAC (University of Craiova), CĂTĂLIN BORDEIANU („Petre Andrei” University of Iaşi) ---IIINNTTEERRNNAATTIIIOONNAALL AADDVVIIISSOORRYY BBOOAARRDD--- MI HA I CIM P OI Pre s ide nt of th e A c a d em y of the Rep ubl i c of M ol da v i a MIC HA E L RA DU , Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy Research Institute, C o- C ha ir ma n , FP RI’ s Ce nter o n Terrorism, Counter -Terrorism and Homeland Security , Philadelphia, USA YO HA NA N MA N OR , Profe s s or , University de Jerusalem, Israel Pre s ide nt , Center for Monitoring the Impact of Peace (CMIP) JOZ E PIR JEV EC, Profe s s or , University of Trieste, Italy PA TRI CIA G O N ZA L EZ-A L DEA Profe s s or , University Francisco de Vitoria, Madrid, Spain OL IV ER FRI G GI ERI, Profe s s or , University of Malta CRIS TI NA BEJA N , Wadham College, Oxford, Great Britain SLA V C O A LMĂ JA N , Profe s s or , University of Novi Sad, Serbia Pre s ide nt , „Argos” Center for Open Dialogue, Novi Sad, Serbia NICU CI O BA NU Pre s ide nt , „Libertatea”Publishing House, Novi Sad, Serbia SA ND O R R IC HT ER Senior Economist , Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies (WIIW) JU N E TEU FE L D RE YER Profe s s or , Department of Political Science, University of Miami, USA ---EEDDIIITTOORRIIIAALLL BBOOAARRDD--- Editor in chief: AUREL PIŢURCĂ Deputy editor in chief: ION DEACONESCU Editorial board: CEZAR AVRAM, VLADIMIR OSIAC, MIHAI COSTESCU, ANCA PARMENA OLIMID, COSMIN LUCIAN GHERGHE, CRISTINA OTOVESCU-FRĂSIE, CĂTĂLINA MARIA GEORGESCU, MIHAI GHIŢULESCU NNOOTTEE ooofff ttthhheee EEDDIIITTOORRIIIAALLL BBOOAARRDD Revista de Stiinte Politice. 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ISSN: 1584-224X http://cis01.central.ucv.ro/revistadestiintepolitice/ CONTENTS RROOMMAANNIIIAA TTOODDAAYY::: PPOOLLLIIITTIIICCSS,,, LLLAAWW AANNDD AADDMMIIINNIIISSTTRRAATTIIIOONN Aurel PIŢURCĂ, Andra BREZNICEANU, Quality assurance – Major requirement 7 of the Romanian higher education Irina Olivia POPESCU, Romanian Justice Reform under CVM’s rule. Innovative 13 vision of the New Civil Code in matters of property rights Andreea Mihaela NIŢĂ, Veronica ION, Employment policies in the context of 19 the Labour Code amendments in 2011 PPOOLLLIIITTIIICCAALLL HHIIISSTTOORRYY::: TTHHOOUUGGHHTT AANNDD PPRRAACCTTIIICCEE Mihai GHIŢULESCU, Politics without Institutions. A Brief Outline of Modern and 27 Contemporary Romanian Administrative History Ionuţ RĂDUICĂ, Negative Freedom and Its Evolution 36 Ionuţ ŞERBAN, The Greek and Latin cultures reflected in modern Romanian 42 culture IIINNTTEERRNNAATTIIIOONNAALLL PPOOLLLIIITTIIICCSS::: HHOOWW TTOO DDEEAALLL WWIIITTHH TTHHEE RREECCEENNTT IIISSSSUUEESS?? Mihai Ovidiu CERCEL, Organizational Incentives in the Globalization Process 46 Maria Cătălina GEORGESCU, Stereotypes, migrants and the media: an 52 analysis of the Romanian press on migration Cristinel TRANDAFIR, Communities vs. societies and their function in border 66 regions PPOOLLLIIITTIIICCSS && RREELLLIIIGGIIIOONN::: BBUUIIILLLDDIIINNGG UUNNIIITTYY IIINN DDIIIVVEERRSSIIITTYY Zuhdi JASSER, Americanism vs. Islamism: A Personal Perspective 82 David FORTE, Islam’s Trajectory 92 Anca Parmena OLIMID, The politics of self-identity in the Balkans. The role of 101 church-state relations in forming a new com-union SSTTAATTIIISSTTIIICCAALLL MMEETTHHOODDSS Mihai COSTESCU, The Young Test to evaluate the action of the systematic 111 causes upon the data in the survey. Applicative Program BBOOOOKK RREEVVIIIEEWW Anca Ceauşescu, Aşezările rurale din Câmpia Băileştiului (cu elemente de 115 etnografie) (Loredana Maria Grozoiu) 5 University of Craiova • Faculty of Social Sciences • Political Sciences Specialization 6 Revista de Ştiinţe Politice. Revue des Sciences Politiques • No. 29 • 2011 RROOMMAANNIIIAA TTOODDAAYY::: PPOOLLIIITTIIICCSS,,, LLAAWW AANNDD AADDMMIIINNIIISSTTRRAATTIIIOONN Aurel PIŢURCĂ, Andra BREZNICEANU Quality assurance – Major requirement of the Romanian higher education Aurel PIŢURCĂ University of Craiova, Faculty of Social Sciences, Political Sciences Specialization, Craiova, Romania. Email: [email protected] Andra BREZNICEANU University of Craiova, Faculty of Law and Administrative Sciences “Nicolae Titulescu”, Craiova, Romania Email: [email protected] Abstract: In the study conducted, starting from the changes and transformations that took place in social, economic, spiritual and political Romanian society after 1990, we intend to approach the problem of ensuring the education in Romanian higher education. To demonstrate the need and desirability of this process, we analyzed the factors which by their action required of the educational quality assurance. Also, we had to acts which have set up quality assurance, stages its accomplishments, the institutions called upon to put into practice. Keywords: national minorities, inter-ethnic relations, education system, confessional education, Romanianization, Hungarianization. 7 Revista de Ştiinţe Politice. Revue des Sciences Politiques • No. 29 • 2011 he quality of Romanian phenomena and to ensure their education, especially the higher conscious, active and responsible Teducation management can not participation to the new politics; be understood only in close touch The emergence and expansion of with the changes and private education, especially its transformations that took place in superior form as an alternative to post-revolutionary Romania. the public. This imposes an Following this event the entire ordering, selection, quality Romanian society has undergone a assessment of minimum major interest and reforming, conditions which were observed restructuring and social renewal. He in all situations; was normal and necessary because it Connecting the Romanian made the transition from a closed education system at European and social system, anti-democratic, the international level, a process that other newly opened development will be even more a necessity after system based on new principles and January 2007, when Romania values, quite opposite the other. joined the European Union. The need to depoliticize and non All these factors claimed ideology education. Education Romanian education reform and promoted by the communist restructuring of all its views, system was strongly implanted in especially of its quality assurance communist politics and ideology, with a high accent of the superior is used as an effective tool in one. This required the creation of an counterpower spiritual and institution, authority to conduct political indoctrination and quality assessment process, which to subordination of society and its be independent from the ministry or members. In a democratic society another institution and to have a that was to be achieved, such a European recognition. Qualitative teaching does not take place, assessment of higher education conflicts with its new principles needs to be multidimensional, to be and values, the expected social achieved in stages - draft permit and ideal; accreditation function, to be based on Transformations suffered by the criteria, standards, minimum social, political, cultural, indicators for performance and translation to a market economy reference. In this context, require new specialists and accreditation of academic and specializations, the old system institutional studies as the final step was lacking in here; was to take an important place in Restoring the social and political quality assurance. This was the democracy also requires the spring that prompted us to choose Romanian education reform, this theme. To this has been added which would provide a minimum the experience as an expert appraiser of socio-political knowledge that and member of the Committee of will allow citizens to know and Social and Political Sciences. understand the new political 8 Revista de Ştiinţe Politice. Revue des Sciences Politiques • No. 29 • 2011 Methodology In our study we used the statistical comparison method, both In compiling this article we used the synchronic and diachronic. It was as information sources from meant to highlight the evolution of Romanian and foreign literature. To standards, criteria and indicators for highlight some papers, articles and assessing the old authority CNEAA to studies used: Antonescu L. the ARACIS today. Our experience as "University Management" Polirom, an expert appraiser and member of Bucharest 2000; Atanasiu.GM the permanently committee ARACIS "international management and of Social and Political Sciences, was a