Browsing by Author "Dragolea, Alina"

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Gen și interese politice : teorii și practici
(Polirom, 2007) Băluță, Oana; Dragolea, Alina; Iancu, Alice
What do citizens want from politicians? How do they allocate public goods? From whom and how would they take taxes if they so decided? Is it relevant whether citizens are women or men? The great grievances of the inhabitants of this country are related to the most underfunded areas of public interest: health, education, social protection, civilizing infrastructure. As in these areas, by political decision, the lowest salaries of all budgetary areas are practiced, women earn little, even if they have higher qualified professions. They are condemned to poverty and dependency not because they are idle, do not work and do not study, but because the policy of all governments has been constructed in such a way that public money is not allocated or is very little precisely for the work of raising, educating and caring for them. In this volume, the authors set out to present the theoretical tools underlying the gender analysis of political interests and to apply them in a few cases, in everyday life, in the labor market or in the study of social exclusion. (Mihaela Miroiu)
Illiberal discourse in Romania : a “Golden” new beginning?
(Cogitatio Press, 2022) Dragolea, Alina
While interest in illiberalism has increased in recent years, the study of the connections between anti-gender discourse and transnational dissemination is a more recent scholarly endeavour. Emerging feminist scholarship has helped to move beyond national cases of illiberalism to understand how the gendered nature of illiberalism is revealed through its ability to cross borders and, in recent years, to become a movement with a transnational character. This article examines the evolution of the political discourse on gender in Romania and proposes a three-stage framework leading from gender traditionalism to a more pronounced illiberal discourse. The article examines whether the recent rise of the political party Alliance for the Union of Romanians (Alianța pentru Unirea României, AUR) represents a new step towards an established political illiberal discourse in Romania. The official public addresses of AUR are analysed to show how the terminology and themes identified as cornerstones of illiberalism (e.g., anti-gender, traditional family, opposition to reproductive rights, education, and anti-LGBTQ) are incorporated into its rhetoric.
Monitorizarea alegerilor prezidențiale și parlamentare 2024/2025 din România
(Impressum Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung Romania, 2025) Dragolea, Alina; Constantin, Mariuca Oana; Derviș, Oana-Alexandra; Gheba, Andreea; Shehu , Xhenis; Alexandru, Adela; Bercuș, Eduard; Gheorghe, Carmen; Levente Viski, Vlad
Alegerile prezidențiale și parlamentare din 2024 și 2025 din România au avut loc într-un context marcat de regres democratic, polarizare socială și creșterea populismului, iliberalismului și extremismului. Într-un gest fără precedent în istoria post-comunistă a României, alegerile prezidențiale din 2024 au fost anulate de Curtea Constituțională din cauza unor încălcări grave ale Constituției, care au implicat interferențe externe prin rețele digitale și manipulare algoritmică. Acest lucru a condus la reorganizarea alegerilor în mai 2025, cu măsuri sporite pentru transparență digitală și prevenirea dezinformării. Acest studiu reprezintă cea mai amplă cercetare privind polarizarea și discursul electoral din România, având scopul de a oferi o imagine cuprinzătoare asupra provocărilor întâmpinate în materie de incluziune și reprezentare egală în politica românească. Metodologia studiului a presupus monitorizarea discursului electoral al principalilor actori politici, atât pe rețelele sociale, cât și în mass-media tradițională, utilizând o matrice tematică pentru analiza recurenței termenilor și temelor-cheie. Studiul se concentrează pe analiza intersecțională a discursului electoral, examinând modul în care teme precum egalitatea de gen, diversitatea și drepturile minorităților au fost reflectate în campaniile candidaților. Studiul identifică trei teme majore: genul în discursul electoral, marginalizarea minorităților sexuale și drepturile omului și drepturile minorităților în contextul extinderii „suveranismului”. Analiza datelor rezultate în urma procesului de monitorizare arată faptul că discursul anti-gen a fost un element central în retorica electorală polarizantă. Acest discurs prezintă politicile de egalitate de gen ca fiind străine și contrare tradițiilor naționale. De asemenea, studiul arată că retorica împotriva minorităților sexuale a fost utilizată pentru mobilizarea grupurilor conservatoare și religioase prin dezumanizarea membrilor comunității LGBTQIA+. În discursul electoral, minoritățile etnice sunt menționate fie superficial și fragmentat, fie printr-un registru discursiv cu devieri rasiste și xenofobe.
Political parties, women’s organizations and gender quota
(Tritonic, 2015) Dragolea, Alina
Across the world more and more states establish some form of gender quotas. Even in states that were reluctant to have any form of “preferential” treatment for women (such as were the Central and Eastern Europe countries) the combination between a favorable gender equality climate, women’s mobilization and political parties’ will has led to 15 states establishing quotas. Romania has only (inefficient) voluntary political parties’ quotas and one of the lowest levels of women elected worldwide. When quotas are needed who and why can be more successful in pushing for their establishment? This article’s thesis is that women’s organizations inside political parties can be successful in their mobilization to establish quotas because they can use both pragmatic and normative reasons.
Rewarding mobility? : towards a realistic European policy agenda for academics at risk
(Erasmus University Rotterdam, 2024) Gusejnova, Dina; Dragolea, Alina; Pető, Andrea; Terteleac, Andrei Vlăduț; Photiadou, Artemis; Bakos, Rebeka
This article maps from a critical and comparative perspective how scholars at riskare currently being integrated into the European research infrastructure, as well as in various EU and non-EU Member States. The focus is on three countries ranging from older to newer EU members to one non-EU member state—Hungary, Romania and the United Kingdom—as well as on EU-level organisations. We draw on twelve indepth interviews conducted with key stakeholders involved in the process of academic migration (non-governmental organisations, EU and national level actors) to identify key issues concerning academics at risk. Finally, we call for a robust EU-level response to an issue that is currently inadequately addressed by national governments, professional associations and NGOs. As we argue, the focus on mobility as a factor supporting research excellence in the regular European research infrastructure can have negative unintended outcomes for scholars at risk. For many of them, rewarding mobility can entail the threat of losing their legal status in temporary places of migration. What is needed is a nuanced approach for scholars at risk in a diverse range of situations, which should involve closer cooperation between international academic bodies and EU policy makers, and complement support for those who need to escape to third countries with the offer of remote work in the country where they are able to obtain a secure residence permit.
Statul bunăstării după criza economică : între realitatea austerităţii şi necesitatea reformei
(Tritonic, 2016) Dragolea, Alina
In the context of the general dualization of the labour market, the labour market shows a specific segmentation. This is manifested not only in terms of occupational categories and branches of activity, but also in terms of job security, size and stability of income, social security contributions, opportunities for promotion, and the possibility of union membership. The division of the labor market into two "sectors" of the market produces the segmentation of welfare policies by creating dual social protection systems between typical and atypical workers, being a dimension of inequalities in social rights. In this paper, we analyzed the transposition of this segmentation into social security systems, more specifically we explored the precariousness of social protection in atypical work in the Romanian context. National social protection systems have been developed mainly to protect people in standard employment. This is particularly true for the social insurance system based on contributory benefits, i.e. on the collection of funds from future beneficiaries according to the amount of contribution. Thus, I aimed to highlight the disadvantages that atypical workers in Romania face in terms of the accumulation of social security contributions.
Women's social exclusion and feminisms : living in parallel worlds? : the Romanian case
(LIT Verlag, 2012) Iancu, Alice; Băluță, Oana; Dragolea, Alina; Florian, Bogdan
Eastern feminism and women living in Eastern Europe in the last twenty years have lived their specific distinct realities. While growing gender inequalities affected women during transition, Romanian feminists have faced specific difficulties of their own, both theoretical and practical. How to use Western perspectives to analyze a distinct Romanian gender reality, how to ensure the relevance of analysis through both theoretical positioning and empirical research, these were typical dilemmas during the transition.