The resurgence of civil society was credited with playing a critical role in the transitions of the socalled Third Wave of democracy (1974-1987). Social movements, human right organizations, churches, and other forms of organized “people power” mobilized repressed populations against authoritarian governments throughout the world and helped bring about regime change from Portugal to the Philipp...

Evidence from politically and socially stable countries in Northern Europe and the Southern Hemisphere indicates a marked decrease in the seasonality of suicide over the past two decades. Generalizabiity of this trend to societies in transition has not yet been investigated. Data for suicide by hanging in Timiş County of Romania show both a nondecrease in seasonality of suicide for the current ...

Today I will present my thoughts on philanthropy as collective sharing. I will first examine the nature of philanthropy, and its relationship with the concept of ownership. In society, philanthropy is born together with private property. There is no need for philanthropy under a system of full public ownership. According to Marxist and Socialist theory, philanthropy is unnecessary and irrelevan...

The collapse of communism sparked a wave of democratization that was characterized by distinctive development of democracy in post-communist societies of Central and Eastern Europe. Democratization processes in those societies have generated specific problems, including uncertainty regarding the establishment of democracy, its sustainability, and development. Among the others, a characteristic ...

Purpose: Communism, being one of the most repressive systems, influences whole spec-trum behaviors individuals, groups, and society. Countries that changed their politi-cal system start a journey external (economic, social) internal (personal, interper-sonal, group) changes. The post-communist burden determines human behavior, man-agers leaders should pay attention to these consequences. resear...

Much writing on party organisational development in post-communist East Central Europe has argued that, with the partial exception of successor parties to former regime parties, political parties in the region will be state-centred, low-membership organisations dominated by political elites, which loosely approximate to the ‘cartel’ and ‘electoral-professional’ models of party identified by som...