Cristian Pîrvulescu
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Cristian-Romulus Pîrvulescu (born January 9, 1965) is a Romanian political analyst,[1] activist, journalist, and essayist. He is a professor at the National University of Political Studies and Public Administration[2] (SNSPA) in Bucharest, and became its dean in December 2005.[3]
Born in Ploiești, Pîrvulescu graduated in 1989 from the University of Bucharest's Faculty of Philosophy, and went on to finish his education at the Paris-based Institut d'Etudes Politiques and the Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques.[3] He authored his Ph.D. thesis on Tendencies and Evolutions in the Dynamics of the Western European Political Parties at the End of the 20th Century.[citation not found]
Pîrvulescu has been president of the Romanian NGO Pro Democrația since 1999, is a founding member of the Romanian Political Science Association, and counselor for the World Bank Comprehensive Development Frame Program. He has published a series of articles, studies and papers, and has taken part in a large number of seminars, debates, congresses, conferences, symposia, and round tables.[who?]
He is a frequent editorialist, commentator and analyst in Romanian and foreign media including Curentul, Dilema Veche, BBC, Radio Free Europe, Romanian national television, Pro TV, Radio România Actualități, and Radio Romania International.[citation needed] Pîrvulescu was deputy editor of the monthly Sfera Politicii between 1994 and 1997. In 2000, he was awarded the National Order of Merit, Knight class.[4]
Political party science
[edit]His early career was centered on denouncing the negative consequences of the single-party communist regime that was present in Romania between 1948 and 1989, as well as of having major former second-rank Romanian Communist Party members continue holding important governmental posts (after the Communist era, the Romanian political party system was dominated by the National Salvation Front, perceived as a neo-communist party with a small faction of democrats and reformists).
Seen as a reformist and a leader in democratic thought, Pîrvulescu was, in the early 1990s, more and more often invited as a guest on political talk shows. What he saw as the failure of the Romanian Democratic Convention government (a centre-right coalition that governed Romania between 1996 and 2000) made him more critical of the Romanian political party system—in his view, mainstream Romanian parties were more interested in immediate electoral success than in making the whole political system and the whole country work better. He also denounced the consequences of the party-list electoral system in use in Romania, which, according to him, makes members of Parliament more dependent on party decisions, letting them stray away from their own political beliefs in favor of "political party discipline". Pîrvulescu attributed the apparent problems faced by the Parliament in adopting legislation to this phenomenon.
References
[edit]- ^ Todorova, Maria; Gille, Zsuzsa (2010-06-01). Post-Communist Nostalgia. Berghahn Books. p. 176. ISBN 978-1-84545-671-9. Retrieved 1 May 2011.
- ^ Câmpeanu, Pavel (2003). Ceaușescu: the countdown. East European Monographs. p. 475. ISBN 978-0-88033-524-9. Retrieved 1 May 2011.
The attempt was made again one year later, by Cristian Pârvulescu, professor at the National School of Political and Administrative Sciences, ...
- ^ a b "Curriculum Vitae – Cristian-Romulus Pîrvulescu" (PDF). snspa.ro (in Romanian). Retrieved November 9, 2024.
- ^ "Decretul președintelui României nr. 524 din 1 decembrie 2000 privind conferirea unor decorații naționale personalului din subordinea Ministerului Culturii", lege5.ro, Monitorul Oficial, December 16, 2000, retrieved November 9, 2024
External links
[edit]- Cristian Pîrvulescu publications indexed by Google Scholar
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- 1965 births
- Living people
- People from Ploiești
- Romanian essayists
- University of Bucharest alumni
- Sciences Po alumni
- Romanian magazine editors
- Romanian political scientists
- Romanian television personalities
- Romanian political journalists
- Academic staff of the National University of Political Studies and Public Administration
- Recipients of the National Order of Merit (Romania)