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The erosion of media trust raises concerns about the ways in which the conduit of political information could undermine citizens' trust in democracy. While a large body of research in western democracies shows that media trust is contingent on specific media-system, political and cultural factors pertaining to national contexts, little is known about the sources of media trust in the new democracies from Central and Eastern Europe. Based on statistical analyses of public opinion surveys, this research tests if levels of trust in various traditional (television, radio, written press) and alternative mediums (Internet and online social networks) are differentiated along political party lines and depending on media consumption patterns in post-communist Romania. The results reveal a stronger association between trust in political parties and trust in traditional mediums, while trust in online media is more strongly linked to consumption patterns. These findings have practical, theoretical and normative implications for the functioning of democracy in post-communist societies.

The article investigates the political mechanisms specific to contemporary Romanian politics and political parties, as well as those social representations related to gender roles and the
definition of family that have contributed to maintaining a low level of women participation in
Romanian politics after 1989. In a first part, it sets the conceptual context through a review of the
main theoretical approaches for the political representation of women, with an emphasis on
gender studies' cognitive dimension. Second, it connects a quantitative evaluation of women's
presence in the Romanian post communist parliament with a qualitative analysis of public (i.e.
mass media) discourse of the rejected legislative proposal to introduce gender quotas in various
political and social processes. The author finds that, beyond the dynamics of political elites'
recruitment and the functioning of the political "game", the ideological options and social
representations that emphasize the differences between men and women, as well the central role
of family in building gender roles play an essential part in maintaining a low number of women
within the Parliament.

Revista Transilvania - serie nouă, anul XLV (CXLIX), nr. 6, 2017; Colegiul științific: prof.univ.dr. Ștefan AFLOROAIEI; prof.univ.dr. Sabin Adrian LUCA; prof.univ.dr. Peter KOPECKÝ; acad.prof.univ.dr. Alexandru MOȘANU; acad.pr.prof.univ.dr. Mircea PĂCURARIU; acad.prof.univ.dr. Ioan-Aurel POP; prof.univ.dr. Ștefan SIENERTH; prof.univ.dr.habil. Andrei TERIAN; acad.prof.univ.dr. Alexandru ZUB. Colegiul consultativ: Î.P.S.prof.univ.dr. Laurențiu STREZA; prof.univ.dr. Pamfil MATEI; prof.univ.dr. Zeno PINTER. Redactor șef: Radu VANCU; Redactor: Dragoș VARGA ; Revista Transilvania nr. 6, 2017 cuprinde următoarele articole: Vancu, Radu. Despre instituții & continuități. Lecțiile lui H.-R. Patapievici & Mircea Cărtărescu. Sau despre atenția la celălalt ca mod de construcție instituțională; / Mitchievici, Angelo. Traian Demetrescu - gestul estetic; / Ignat, Mihai. Onomastica în romanele lui Stefan Agopian; / Olaru, Ovio. Douămiismul poetic românesc. Condițiile unei schimbări de paradigmă; / Vancea, Mihaela. Proza douămiistă - detabuizarea cuplului homosexual; / Chioaru, Dumitru. (In)actualitatea teoriei blagiene a influenţelor; / Baghiu, Ștefan. Figura boemei la Pierre Bourdieu: câmpul literar modern; David, Maria Tereza. Franco Moretti – despre supraviețuirea literară. Analiză și explorare; / Berechet, Lăcrămioara. Noaptea de Sânziene. Locuirea sacrului în hermeneutica recuperatoare; / Stan, Adriana. Piramidele se construiesc altfel decât miturile. Mihai Pop și reinventarea studiilor de folclor; / Galter, Sunhild. Das siebenbürgische Dorf in der Perspektive von Rolf Bauerdicks Roman Wie die Madonna auf den Mond kam; / Muntean Beșliu, Petre. The archaeology of the medieval towers in Mount Athos. An attempt of archaeological research; / Gîță, Elena Iulia. Cultural Translation Enabling a Dialogue between West and East; / Manolache, Viorella. Making sense of Jürgen Habermas: Politica scurtelor introduceri filosofice; / Andrei, Olivia. Chestionarea ca proces cognitiv: ilustrarea în Viața mea a lui Charles Darwin și implicațiile sale în educația modernă; / Ilea, Mihaela. Televiziunea – între jurnalismul de informare și cel de comunicare; / Sălcudean, Minodora. Children and Public Street Protests – a Public Debate of Striking Immediacy in Romania. The Social Media and the Mass-media as Main Vectors to shape up the Dominant Threads of Opinion;

The present study investigates the participation of French women at war as reflected in documents, media, diaries. Women emancipation, pacifism, socialism, feminism, are but a few issues introduced with this study. The main purpose was to analyze the impact of interventionist state policies on women life in France, and to reveal its social, political and cultural outcomes that altogether generated the upheaval of the French Civilization.

PECULIARITIES OF STRATEGIC COMMUNICATION IN THE CONTEXT OF INFORMATION SPACE FROM THE REPUBLIC OF MOLDOVA In the Republic of Moldova, the notion of strategic communication, in the security field, has become more and more frequently attested in studies and scientific approaches, related to the systemic functioning of our country. However, now, we find that the Republic of Moldova does not have neither political, nor sociolinguistic or media full favorable conditions; thus, the good conditioning of a strategic communication does not exist yet. The all-encompassing normative framework, regarding the coordination of institutional communication, has no chance of success in such cases, because the strategic communication represents a situation conditioned by the political, informational, social, economic, cultural environment, etc. The political and sociolinguistic situation brings a lot of difficulties for institutional communication. The exercise of strategic communication functions, at national level, can be considered fruitful only through ensuring favorable conditions for state institutions, in order to support a strategic communication, which should concentrate the efforts to consolidate and orient the conditions on national interests and national policies. Keywords: strategic communication, institutional communication, national security, systemic functioning, national policy.

This article reveals the institutional characteristics of local public administration in the Republic of Moldova - local autonomy, decentralization of public services, eligibility of public authorities, and consultation of citizens in issues of major interest. From institutional point of view, the local public administration in the Republic of Moldova is insufficiently developed. Local autonomy is performed with long postponement. Most of the population is still under the influence of the idea that all the problems are solved at the central administration level, while the local public officials are just some executive agents at the local level.
Options related to decentralization as a requirement of administration's approach by the administratives, have been manifested more as a way of the central authorities to get rid of the problems that they themselves can not solve. Citizens' behavior in Moldova shows on a limited degree of control that can occur in connection with the social and political process. Forms of realization of the principle of consultation of citizens in matters of particular interest are consultations, public hearings and conversations. Although legally regulated, the referendum failed to materialize itself into a viable institution of participation. In this connection it is necessary to take into account the fact that the structure of the resistance of local public administration consists of its institutional roles, and assimilation of these ones is achieved on the basis of access to media materials.

The unification process for the workers' movements was the final step for the communists in their effort to gain total control of the political power. The tactics of the Romanian Communist Party (PCR) were labeled "the salami tactics" because the party progressively eliminated all their enemies and used conjectural allies -such as the social democrats (PSD)- in order to reach their aim. This article describes the process whereby the organization of the PCR in alliance with the PSD obtained political power in the period 1945-1948 in the Ialomiţa county. The author focuses his analysis on two types of actions: the violent overtake of the local power (including mayors, police officers, governmental representatives, etc.) and the unification of the PCR and PSD in order to achieve a Single Workers' Party, in which the communists prevailed. As a result of the unification process, according to the official records, almost 7% of the population in this county was a member of the Single Workers' Party in February 1948. The Ialomiţa County is a very interesting, yet paradigmatic case, because in that period the region was a predominantly agricultural, with a small working class (2%), and the communists could not seize power by legal means. The study mainly relies upon local archival documents and upon the contemporary local media reports, which are carefully examined to discern between actual relevant data and their propagandistic content.