The Impact of Europeanization on the Quality of Democracy in Romania

In this project I propose to analyse the impact of the Europeanization process on democracy's quality in Romania. Although there are several studies about the evolution of Romanian democracy, those are more or less connected with the quality of aboriginal democracy. This is why this essay supplies a more detailed research about this aspect, seeing the context of Romania's integration and the effects that it produced. The project will be divided in four parts. In the first part I will try to built a theoretical frame which can be used to establish a working methodology for this research. In the second part I will develop the methodological framework and I will present the analysed period. The third part of the project will focus on the analysis of democracy's quality in Romania proper and on the importance of Europeanization in this process. The last part will present conclusions regarding the way in which Europeanization was understood in Romania. Was Europeanization understood as a process from top to bottom or just an adoption of the acquis communautaire. These are some of the questions which this project wants to answer.