George Jiglau

Babeș-Bolyai University | UBB · Department of Political Sciences

Facing global challenges like economic crises, political unrest, and public health issues, societies must be resilient. Societal Resilience is the collective capacity to endure and bounce back from such adversities. This study delves into its complexity and its ties to economic, social, healthcare, and political domains, offering insights for decis...

Background Global conflicts and geopolitical tensions are causing mass displacement, making refugee integration a pressing issue. The aftermath of Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine has resulted in over 5 million internally displaced Ukrainians and more than 8 million refugees settling across Europe. The success of their integration relies on the ho...

public communications regarding its climate goals, is regarded coherently across governance levels. What do stakeholders across governance levels understand by justice and how is this reflected in their overall perceptions regarding the just transition? We aim to make both a conceptual and an empirically informative contribution by qualitatively ex...

Throughout the last decade, the goal of acknowledging and alleviating energy poverty has made its way to the core of energy policies across the world, including the high-standing SDG7 as a benchmark. While much debate is still devoted to conceptual and empirical clarifications, its measurement through indicators, or the appropriate policies aimed a...

Energy poverty is a far-reaching concept that intrinsically bridges numerous fields of study, ranging from engineering to anthropology and medical science to social psychology. The profound implications of energy poverty on the quality of life globally have also led to a wide range of metrics and policies aimed at measuring it and alleviating it, a...

Background Energy poverty has gained much traction over the last decades, holding both high multidisciplinary conceptual value, but also profound implications from a social policy perspective, being closely linked to the quality of life and well-being. The goal of our study is to evaluate recent measures aimed at tackling energy poverty in Europe b...

Background Energy poverty has gained much traction over the last decades, holding both high multidisciplinary conceptual value, but also profound implications from a social policy perspective, being closely linked to the quality of life and wellbeing. The goal of our study is to evaluate recent measures aimed at tackling energy poverty in Europe by...

What is the impact of legislative reforms on party system change and stability? This article provides a detailed account of how rules impact on party system stability. We trace all legislative reforms relevant to political parties, which include amendments to electoral laws, party finance law and party laws. The central argument is that party syste...

Acest raport prezintă viziunea promovată de Centrul pentru Studiul Democrației cu privire la reformarea principalelor instituții și legi care au ca rol reprezentarea politică a cetățenilor din România. Scopul final este încurajarea cetățenilor de a participa la viața politică prin agregarea eficientă a intereselor lor la nivelul sistemului politic...

Organizată începând cu 1997, Școala de vară de metode aplicate de cercetare socială vă propune și anul acesta o serie de cursuri de metodologia cercetării, adresate atât începătorilor, cât și avansaților, susținute de o echipă de profesori și practicieni cu experiență națională și internațională în domenii care presupun culegerea și analiza datelor...

Energy poverty, understood as a problem in terms of the affordability of the bill, but also in terms of the poor access to modern means to provide thermal comfort in a household, is a widespread phenomenon across the European Union, the postcommunist space being mostly affected by it. Energy poverty is a major social marginalization factor, and the...

This article seeks to identify the determinants of ethnic parties’ access to coalition governments in Bulgaria, Romania, and Slovakia between 1990 and 2013. We conducted a cross-national and longitudinal analysis in which we took into account all the elections in which the ethnic parties gained parliamentary representation. With 21 cases over two d...

This paper provides a detailed account of how rules impact on party system development and stability in a post-communist context. We trace all legislative changes relevant to political parties since the collapse of communism until 2015, changes which include amendments to constitutions, electoral law, party finance law and party laws. The analysis...

This paper seeks to identify the causes impeding the ethnic parties to participate in the post-communist coalition governments. We conduct a cross-national and longitudinal analysis in which we take into account all the elections in which the ethnic parties gained parliamentary representation. With 44 cases over two decades – the party in election...

Following six rounds of national parliamentary elections disputed under a closed-list PR system, in 2008 Romania adopted an electoral reform. The new system is triple-layered and combines proportional representation with voting in single-member districts. Its first use reveals discrepancies between the logic of proportional representation, for whic...

This article provides a comparative analysis of the evolution of ethnic parties in the three most important ethnically divided societies in post-communist Europe (not including the former Yugoslav republics): Bulgaria, Romania and Slovakia. The starting point of the analysis is the fall of communism, when ethnicity re-emerged as a salient issue in...

The complex dynamics of inter-ethnic relations in post-communist countries leads to a puzzle: why do some ethnic minorities mobilise to obtain political representation whereas others do not? We use qualitative comparative analysis to capture complex causal patterns explaining the formation of ethnic parties and to analyse the combined effect of soc...

The Romanian party system suffered significant changes in the past two decades. Initially characterized by high levels of electoral volatility and fragmentation, it has gradually reached continuity and stability. To what extent is such a pattern reflected in the ideological developments within the party system? Through a longitudinal analysis of th...

This paper aims to show how ethnic parties can become influential actors in the process of Europeanization of post-Communist countries, by conducting a case-study of Romania. We consider Europeanization of Romania as the dependent variable of the two hypotheses we put forward. First, we test if the presence of ethnic parties in government led to an...