Ion Marandici
Biographic Data
| ID | 838024 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ion Marandici |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ion |
| FAMILY NAME | Marandici |
| SIGNATURE | MARANDICI I |
| AFFILIATIONS | Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8568-9454 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 45 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Great Power Competition, Clientelism, and De Facto States: Transnistria and Taiwan Compared
To what extent can de facto states act autonomously vis-à-vis their patron states and domestic societies? This article draws on theories of clientelism in international relations to develop a novel argument explaining the agency of de facto states. Examining two strategic triangles—Russia–Transnistria–Moldova and US–Taiwan–China—it demonstrates that interrelated domestic factors such as robust political competition, democratic pluralism, reimagin…
Oligarchs, Political Ties and Nomenklatura Capitalism: Introducing a New Dataset
This article examines the relationship between nomenklatura membership, wealth accumulation and political ties across the post-Soviet region from the 1990s to the mid-2010s. It introduces the Post-Soviet Oligarchs (PSO) dataset, containing the sociodemographic characteristics of the super-rich across the former Soviet republics. While the article finds partial support in favour of the nomenklatura capitalism hypothesis, statistical analysis also …
Legislative Capture and Oligarchic Collusion: Two Pathways of Democratic Backsliding and Recovery in Moldova
I examine two pathways of democratic backsliding in Moldova and the ways in which the country was able to reverse the backsliding trends. The first episode (2001–2009) started with a political party gaining a supermajority in Parliament and setting up a semi-authoritarian system of governance. Prodemocracy protests and coercive attempts by the state to suppress them led to an institutional stalemate, culminating in snap elections that brought a v…
Structural bias, polarized mediation and conflict resolution failure: A comparative examination of the disputes in Transnistria and Donbas
Under what conditions does conflict resolution fail? This article identifies several undertheorized factors hindering conflict resolution. It argues that structural bias, inadequate leverage and a polarized mediation format render negotiations ineffective, undermining the peace process. Durable peace settlements are unlikely when mediators become parties to the conflict, patronize the rebels, shape the domestic politics of the parent-states, and …
A Second Cold War? Explaining Changes in the American Discourse on China: Evidence from the Presidential Debates (1960–2020)
Z-Propaganda and Semiotic Resistance: Contesting Russia's War Symbols in Moldova and Beyond
This article examines the range of strategies adopted by various states vis-à-vis the symbols of the Russian war against Ukraine-the St. George ribbon and the letters Z and V. First, it analyzes their genealogy, illustrating how the St. George ribbon reflects Russia's new authoritarian-imperial identity, while the Z and V originate from ultranationalist Telegram communities promoting white supremacist and genocidal ideas. Second, the concept of s…
Collective Action, Memories of 1989, and Social Media
How does social media facilitate deliberation and collective remembering of past revolutions amid protests in democratizing contexts? To explore this question, I performed a qualitative and quantitative analysis of a unique archive of tweets posted during Moldova’s Twitter Revolution in 2009. The research revealed that Twitter enabled users living in Moldova and Romania to connect online, share information, and chat about the meanings of revoluti…
Neven Andjelic: Covid-19, State-Power and Society in Europe: Focus on Western Balkans
In Covid-19, State-Power and Society in Europe: Focus on Western Balkans, Neven Andjelic uses quantitative measures to offer an impressive account of how state-society relations and democracy evolved across different regions of Europe.The author focuses on how countries reacted to the Covid-19 pandemic, thereby shaping various aspects of society and politics.In doing so, Andjelic embarks on an ambitious methodological journey.He unravels hitherto…
Nostalgic Voting? Explaining the Electoral Support for the Political Left in Post-Soviet Moldova
How does political nostalgia influence voting? Although nostalgic voters have been often mentioned as central to the rise of populism in the West, scholars have rarely shown empirically how nostalgia influences electoral choice. In this paper, I use survey data from 2009 and 2016 to investigate the extent and electoral impact of Soviet nostalgia in the context of democratizing Moldova. First, the paper reveals and explains why political nostalgia…
The Political Economy of the Post-Soviet De Facto States: A Paired Comparison of Transnistria and the Donetsk People’s Republic
What explains the economic endurance of the post-Soviet unrecognized states? Drawing insights from the scholarship on economic institutions, rentier states, and patron–client relations, this article explores the resource-extraction strategies of the post-Soviet de facto states via a paired comparison of Transnistria (PMR) and the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR). The authors conceptualize the post-Soviet de facto states as rentier clients and disc…
Multiethnic Parastates and Nation-Building: The Case of the Transnistrian Imagined Community
This article explores nation-building processes in the Transnistrian imagined community. While some scholars describe Transnistria’s nation-building strategy as a civic, multicultural project, the analysis of recent demographic and educational data corroborated with the close examination of local media content and official discourses—all point to the emergence of a distinct political culture marked by the increasing use of the Russian language in…
Plastic Money: Constructing Markets for Credit Cards in Eight Postcommunist Countries
A Middle Class Without Democracy. Economic Growth and the Prospects for Democratization in China
The informed and persuasive volume authored by Jie Chen sheds much-needed light on the stability of the political regime in China. The carefully constructed research design scoops and analyses orig
No Precedent, No Plan: Inside Russia's 1998 Default
A Middle Class Without Democracy. Economic Growth and the Prospects for Democratization in China
The informed and persuasive volume authored by Jie Chen sheds much-needed light on the stability of the political regime in China. The carefully constructed research design scoops and analyses orig
The Political Economy of the Post-Soviet De Facto States: A Paired Comparison of Transnistria and the Donetsk People’s Republic
What explains the economic endurance of the post-Soviet unrecognized states? Drawing insights from the scholarship on economic institutions, rentier states, and patron–client relations, this article explores the resource-extraction strategies of the post-Soviet de facto states via a paired comparison of Transnistria (PMR) and the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR). The authors conceptualize the post-Soviet de facto states as rentier clients and disc…
A Second Cold War? Explaining Changes in the American Discourse on China: Evidence from the Presidential Debates (1960–2020)
Nostalgic Voting? Explaining the Electoral Support for the Political Left in Post-Soviet Moldova
How does political nostalgia influence voting? Although nostalgic voters have been often mentioned as central to the rise of populism in the West, scholars have rarely shown empirically how nostalgia influences electoral choice. In this paper, I use survey data from 2009 and 2016 to investigate the extent and electoral impact of Soviet nostalgia in the context of democratizing Moldova. First, the paper reveals and explains why political nostalgia…
Multiethnic Parastates and Nation-Building: The Case of the Transnistrian Imagined Community
This article explores nation-building processes in the Transnistrian imagined community. While some scholars describe Transnistria’s nation-building strategy as a civic, multicultural project, the analysis of recent demographic and educational data corroborated with the close examination of local media content and official discourses—all point to the emergence of a distinct political culture marked by the increasing use of the Russian language in…
Legislative Capture and Oligarchic Collusion: Two Pathways of Democratic Backsliding and Recovery in Moldova
I examine two pathways of democratic backsliding in Moldova and the ways in which the country was able to reverse the backsliding trends. The first episode (2001–2009) started with a political party gaining a supermajority in Parliament and setting up a semi-authoritarian system of governance. Prodemocracy protests and coercive attempts by the state to suppress them led to an institutional stalemate, culminating in snap elections that brought a v…
Oligarchs, Political Ties and Nomenklatura Capitalism: Introducing a New Dataset
This article examines the relationship between nomenklatura membership, wealth accumulation and political ties across the post-Soviet region from the 1990s to the mid-2010s. It introduces the Post-Soviet Oligarchs (PSO) dataset, containing the sociodemographic characteristics of the super-rich across the former Soviet republics. While the article finds partial support in favour of the nomenklatura capitalism hypothesis, statistical analysis also …
Z-Propaganda and Semiotic Resistance: Contesting Russia's War Symbols in Moldova and Beyond
This article examines the range of strategies adopted by various states vis-à-vis the symbols of the Russian war against Ukraine-the St. George ribbon and the letters Z and V. First, it analyzes their genealogy, illustrating how the St. George ribbon reflects Russia's new authoritarian-imperial identity, while the Z and V originate from ultranationalist Telegram communities promoting white supremacist and genocidal ideas. Second, the concept of s…
Collective Action, Memories of 1989, and Social Media
How does social media facilitate deliberation and collective remembering of past revolutions amid protests in democratizing contexts? To explore this question, I performed a qualitative and quantitative analysis of a unique archive of tweets posted during Moldova’s Twitter Revolution in 2009. The research revealed that Twitter enabled users living in Moldova and Romania to connect online, share information, and chat about the meanings of revoluti…
Plastic Money: Constructing Markets for Credit Cards in Eight Postcommunist Countries
No Precedent, No Plan: Inside Russia's 1998 Default
A Middle Class Without Democracy. Economic Growth and the Prospects for Democratization in China
The informed and persuasive volume authored by Jie Chen sheds much-needed light on the stability of the political regime in China. The carefully constructed research design scoops and analyses orig
Plastic Money: Constructing Markets for Credit Cards in Eight Postcommunist Countries
The Political Economy of the Post-Soviet De Facto States: A Paired Comparison of Transnistria and the Donetsk People’s Republic
What explains the economic endurance of the post-Soviet unrecognized states? Drawing insights from the scholarship on economic institutions, rentier states, and patron–client relations, this article explores the resource-extraction strategies of the post-Soviet de facto states via a paired comparison of Transnistria (PMR) and the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR). The authors conceptualize the post-Soviet de facto states as rentier clients and disc…
Multiethnic Parastates and Nation-Building: The Case of the Transnistrian Imagined Community
This article explores nation-building processes in the Transnistrian imagined community. While some scholars describe Transnistria’s nation-building strategy as a civic, multicultural project, the analysis of recent demographic and educational data corroborated with the close examination of local media content and official discourses—all point to the emergence of a distinct political culture marked by the increasing use of the Russian language in…
Nostalgic Voting? Explaining the Electoral Support for the Political Left in Post-Soviet Moldova
How does political nostalgia influence voting? Although nostalgic voters have been often mentioned as central to the rise of populism in the West, scholars have rarely shown empirically how nostalgia influences electoral choice. In this paper, I use survey data from 2009 and 2016 to investigate the extent and electoral impact of Soviet nostalgia in the context of democratizing Moldova. First, the paper reveals and explains why political nostalgia…
Collective Action, Memories of 1989, and Social Media
How does social media facilitate deliberation and collective remembering of past revolutions amid protests in democratizing contexts? To explore this question, I performed a qualitative and quantitative analysis of a unique archive of tweets posted during Moldova’s Twitter Revolution in 2009. The research revealed that Twitter enabled users living in Moldova and Romania to connect online, share information, and chat about the meanings of revoluti…
Neven Andjelic: Covid-19, State-Power and Society in Europe: Focus on Western Balkans
In Covid-19, State-Power and Society in Europe: Focus on Western Balkans, Neven Andjelic uses quantitative measures to offer an impressive account of how state-society relations and democracy evolved across different regions of Europe.The author focuses on how countries reacted to the Covid-19 pandemic, thereby shaping various aspects of society and politics.In doing so, Andjelic embarks on an ambitious methodological journey.He unravels hitherto…
Structural bias, polarized mediation and conflict resolution failure: A comparative examination of the disputes in Transnistria and Donbas
Under what conditions does conflict resolution fail? This article identifies several undertheorized factors hindering conflict resolution. It argues that structural bias, inadequate leverage and a polarized mediation format render negotiations ineffective, undermining the peace process. Durable peace settlements are unlikely when mediators become parties to the conflict, patronize the rebels, shape the domestic politics of the parent-states, and …
A Second Cold War? Explaining Changes in the American Discourse on China: Evidence from the Presidential Debates (1960–2020)
Z-Propaganda and Semiotic Resistance: Contesting Russia's War Symbols in Moldova and Beyond
This article examines the range of strategies adopted by various states vis-à-vis the symbols of the Russian war against Ukraine-the St. George ribbon and the letters Z and V. First, it analyzes their genealogy, illustrating how the St. George ribbon reflects Russia's new authoritarian-imperial identity, while the Z and V originate from ultranationalist Telegram communities promoting white supremacist and genocidal ideas. Second, the concept of s…
Oligarchs, Political Ties and Nomenklatura Capitalism: Introducing a New Dataset
This article examines the relationship between nomenklatura membership, wealth accumulation and political ties across the post-Soviet region from the 1990s to the mid-2010s. It introduces the Post-Soviet Oligarchs (PSO) dataset, containing the sociodemographic characteristics of the super-rich across the former Soviet republics. While the article finds partial support in favour of the nomenklatura capitalism hypothesis, statistical analysis also …
Legislative Capture and Oligarchic Collusion: Two Pathways of Democratic Backsliding and Recovery in Moldova
I examine two pathways of democratic backsliding in Moldova and the ways in which the country was able to reverse the backsliding trends. The first episode (2001–2009) started with a political party gaining a supermajority in Parliament and setting up a semi-authoritarian system of governance. Prodemocracy protests and coercive attempts by the state to suppress them led to an institutional stalemate, culminating in snap elections that brought a v…
Great Power Competition, Clientelism, and De Facto States: Transnistria and Taiwan Compared
To what extent can de facto states act autonomously vis-à-vis their patron states and domestic societies? This article draws on theories of clientelism in international relations to develop a novel argument explaining the agency of de facto states. Examining two strategic triangles—Russia–Transnistria–Moldova and US–Taiwan–China—it demonstrates that interrelated domestic factors such as robust political competition, democratic pluralism, reimagin…
Political science (13 works) · Law (9 works) · Politics (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Political economy (6 works) · Economics (5 works) · Post-Soviet Geopolitical Dynamics (5 works) · Business (3 works) · Economic system (3 works)