Luciana Alexandra Ghica

Biographic Data

ID4049515
NAMELuciana Alexandra Ghica
GIVEN NAMESLuciana Alexandra
FAMILY NAMEGhica
SIGNATUREGHICA L A
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Bucharest
ORCID0000-0002-7973-7296
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS8
TOTAL CITATIONS20
WORKS AS AUTHOR8
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2014
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX3

  • The landscape of political science journals in Romania

    Open AccessLuciana Alexandra Ghica, Claudiu D TufisARTICLEEuropean Political Science2025References: 3

    Romanian Political Science was institutionalized mostly after the fall of the communist regime. While the number of Political Science departments has declined after the 2000s, the number of journals continued to increase. We investigate this unusual pattern, focusing on the journals’ relationship with their home universities and editorial teams, and on their reaction to the opening of Romanian Political Science to the outside world. In a context …

  • Transforming International Development

    Luciana Alexandra GhicaCHAPTEROxford Handbook of Digital…2024

    Digital technologies and international development for cooperation are now at the forefront of the global strategic framework for managing current and future challenges, and for ensuring social and economic progress worldwide. This new agenda, which emerged from a multistakeholder dialogue led by the United Nations, builds on decades of conceptual, institutional, and normative advancements in international cooperation. However, it is not a linear…

  • Is It Worth Publishing a Scientific Journal of Political Science? The first 25 years of the 'Annals of the University of Bucharest. Political Science Series

    Open AccessLuciana Alexandra GhicaARTICLEAnalele Universitatii din…2023

    The first issue of the new series of the political science collection of the Annals of the University of Bucharest (Analele Universității din București. Științe Politice) was published in 1999. For the last twenty five years the journal has been continuously published in print, while its online presence was established almost two decades ago. All its archive is online and it continues to be published both online and in print, in full open access …

  • Who are we? The diversity puzzle in European political science

    Open AccessLuciana Alexandra GhicaARTICLEEuropean Political Science2021Cited by: 6References: 4

    In this study, I investigate the evolution of authorship diversity in the scientific journals of three major pan-European professional associations of political research (ECPR, EPSA and EISA), since their first issue until 2020, through an analysis of the bibliometric information of each published item. Established between 1973 and 2019, the seven periodicals under scrutiny ( European Journal of Political Research, European Journal of Internation…

  • Opportunities and challenges of contemporary corruption research

    Open AccessDonatella Della Porta, Felippe Clemente et al.ARTICLEAnalele Universitatii din…2021References: 2

    This is an edited and revised version of an interview recorded in September 2021, which served as closing remarks for the 3rd edition of the Research Methods School on Corruption and Anti-Corruption Analysis (CORAN), Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon (Portugal), 27-30 September 2021. The event was organized jointly with the Centre for International Cooperation and Development Studies (IDC) of the University of Bucharest, as part …

  • Opportunities and challenges of contemporary corruption research

    Open AccessFelippe Clemente, Luís De Sousa et al.ARTICLEAnalele Universitatii din…2021

    This is an edited and revised version of an interview recorded in September 2021, which served as closing remarks for the 3rd edition of the Research Methods School on Corruption and Anti-Corruption Analysis (CORAN), Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon (Portugal), 27-30 September 2021. The event was organized jointly with the Centre for International Cooperation and Development Studies (IDC) of the University of Bucharest, as part …

  • EU development policy

    Open AccessMark Furne, Luciana Alexandra Ghica et al.ARTICLEJournal of Contemporary European…2020Cited by: 11References: 8

    This article introduces the special issue on the evolution of European Union development policy, against the background of fundamental challenges that have emerged since the 2009 Lisbon Treaty. The special issue’s objective is to highlight the complex dynamics of a policy area that is called on to address the massive challenges of poverty, inequality, healthcare capacity, climate change, insecurity and weak governance in countries of the global s…

  • Academic Bovarism and the Pursuit of Legitimacy

    Open AccessLuciana Alexandra GhicaARTICLEEuropean Political Science2014Cited by: 3References: 4

    This article summarises a part of the findings of a larger explorative research that investigates the way in which various representations of national political science(s)/studies tradition and community are negotiated and transformed through interaction, with a focus on the impact of international mobility on political science canon-building. Through a case study on Romania and mostly discourse analysis tools, it examines in particular the compe…