The paper analyses the extent to which information technology is used in European developed and post-communist countries. Indicators such as internet usage, e-commerce and e-government are used to measure the gap between European developed and post-communist countries. Special focus is given to the analysis of the difference in the level of education of male and female inhabitants who use inter...

This article aims to present the motives of geopolitical restructuring South-East Europe at end World War II with an emphasis on relations between Yugoslavia and Bulgaria. In this context, author first identifies interwar interests four involved parties, namely: Yugoslav Bulgarian communist leaderships, political representatives Soviet Union United Kingdom. second part, describes development id...

After a long period of instability, Nepal adopted new Constitution in 2015, creating multiparty federal republic. Previously had been unitary state, albeit with political instability and insurgencies. In 2017 the two competing communist parties merged to form ruling Communist Party (NCP), which operated 2/3rd majority House Representatives. The implementation federalism has slow uneven. Despite...

The evolution of studies of political parties of constitution: The first and second periods show that the evolution of parties indicates that researchers' attitude to political pheno-mena also coincide with the evolution of political realities has been transformed, and the consideration of ideologies in the analysis of the parties have replaced with religious perspectives and anti-authoritarian...

What explains the divergent political paths that the post-communist countries of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union have followed since the fall of the Berlin Wall? While some appear today to be consolidated democracies, others have all the features of consolidated autocracy. This study reviews the patterns of change and examines correlates of progress towards democracy. Variation acros...

Sociologists and political scientists have often observed that citizens of Central and Eastern Europe express high levels of disillusionment with their social, economic and political systems, in comparison with citizens of Western capitalist societies. In this review, we analyze system legitimation and delegitimation in post-Communist societies from a social psychological perspective. We draw o...

Unlike other research papers, we will start our exploration into the Romanian higher education system during communist times, by going through some statistical data. This will be followed shortly by a short review of some other papers approaching the subject of higher education during communist times and, at the end, will be summed up to provide a theoretical framework for analysis. It must be ...

This study of workers' altitudes compares data from International Social Survey Programme (ISSP) surveys for former commuiiisi countries in Europe with ISSP data for Western countries over the period 1987-93, which covers the beginning of the transition to a market economy for the former communist countries. Omsistent with their hypothesis that communist-run economies left an altiiiidinal "lega...