Refine
Document Type
- Article (1)
- Working Paper (1)
Has Fulltext
- yes (2)
Is part of the Bibliography
- no (2)
Keywords
- Romania (1)
- local government (1)
- local identity (1)
- post-socialist transition (1)
- privatisation (1)
Institute
After more than a decade of post-socialist transition, transition theories are increasingly criticised for their inability to grasp the new post-socialist reality. However, even in the light of political, economic, social and cultural restructuring processes taking place on a global scale, the structural legacies of socialist and pre-socialist development are not erased. On the contrary, they continue to play an important role by filtering the impact of global tendencies upon post-socialist societies. With reference to a case study from the Romanian city of Timisoara I will address in the following the ambivalencies connected to the efforts of local elites in the process of implementing global-level requirements in a post-socialist environment.