The decisional process specific to Romanian transition

Abstract

The prescriptive-normative approach of the phenomenon of post-communist transition in the Central and East European countries starts from the hypothesis that a society doesn’t change alone, by itself; rather it may be changed by political initiative. Under the influence of the intervention from the international institutions, the approach of the post-communist transition changed from the identification of the pro-capitalist option, with the destruction of the communist system of organisation, to the introduction of the post-communist societies’ capacity of economic and social development as performance standard, describing the analysis of the transitions in the broad area of the development. As result, the political agenda of the different Romanian governments experienced interesting evolutions, largely steered by the reform or by European integration as umbrella-objectives. The coexistence, the simultaneity of what has been, and can no longer last, at least under the same form, and what will be, make of the transition period one of the milestone moments in the history of a nation. It is a symbiosis between a terminal point and a fresh start for a particular society.