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    COMING TO TERMS WITH THE COLONIAL LEGACY? IMPERIAL MORES AND ENDURING CLASSISM IN THE UNITED KINGDOM
    (2023) Palade, Brîndușa
    The death of Queen Elizabeth II on September 8, 2022 has rekindled across the world the debate about the legacy of the British Empire, given the historical ties between the British monarch and the imperial order. Although Elizabeth II’s personal legacy has often been romanticized, she has also played an institutional role at the end of the British Empire. In colonial countries that wanted to gain their independence, the final years of the Empire were a period of authoritarian rule, abuses and violence. This brutal legacy is by no means consistent with Elizabeth II’s portrayal as a genteel champion of peaceful decolonization. Today, inquiries into past colonial injustices seem more necessary than ever, especially given the imperial amnesia that is so widespread in the UK. The oblivion coexists with a selective nostalgia for the imperial rule that has recently inflated, as well as with an upper-class paternalism preserved since imperial times.
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    Paradoxul votului popular american din 2016 : eșecul noii „democrații epistocratice”?
    (SNSPA, 2016) Palade, Brîndușa
    This paper argues for the formation, during the U.S. presidential elections in 2016, of a hybrid „epistocratic democracy” sustained by politically competent elites who defend the interests of the most disadvantaged groups. The winning of the popular vote by the Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton supports the hypothesis that if the populist and illiberal political rhetoric gained electoral support and led to Donald Trump’s election, this process has triggered, at the same time, the reactive emergence of an „epistocratic democracy” which gets stronger through the democratic protests against Trump’s policies and their racist undertones.
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    Totem and Taboo: Religious Features of the British Public Support for Monarchy
    (Faculty of Political Sciences of the National University of Political Studies and Public Administration in Bucharest, 2024) Palade, Brîndușa
    As Christopher Hitchens remarked in his book about the British monarchy, the cult of theWindsor family, with its periodic rituals and the fetishizing of the most senior royals resembles a secularreligion. The British monarchy is surrounded by secrecy, as many actions of the sovereign and seniorroyals, including those having a public or political impact are not transparent, nor are most recordsfrom the royal archives available to the public or to historians. This paper will first examine the reli-gious features of the public support for the British monarchy. Then, it will ad-vance a hypothetical explanation of the enduring nature of this institutionthrough its mysterious/religious nature. It will also consider the fact that inrecent decades the image of the Windsor family has been harmed by numerousscandals related to adultery, divorce, sexual abuseand even racism. Notwithstanding this ignomin-ious behavior, the royal mystique has been pre-served with the aid of a press that seems profitablyinterested in rousing public devotion to themonarch and in demonizing scapegoats. The pro-establishment media, including the tabloids thatcombine the sacred with the profane, is thus simi-lar to a secular clergy. Republican dissenters whoadvocate the abolition of monarchy play the roleof heretics. They are often persecuted, arrestedand derided. There is also the “religiously indif-ferent” population that is uninterested in the Royal Family. British “public re-ligion” is thus a peculiar kind of pre-modern cult that strangely survived theEnlightenment and the challenges of liberal democracy. Such values are pro-moted within civil society especially by the British pressure group Republic,whose campaign for changing the form of government has gained more visi-bility and support in recent years.