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Combining a historical case study with theoretical framing, this book offers an exploratory contribution to our understanding of the institutionalization of indoctrination and propaganda, and of the associated social monitoring and control practices, both as they have manifested in the past, and as they may manifest in the future.
Sommario
Chapter 1: Ideocracy, Totalitarianism and the "New Man"
Chapter 2: The Functions and Logic of the Indoctrination and Propaganda Institutions
Part II: The Romanian Case (1948-1989): Descriptive and Narrative Facets
Chapter 3: Indoctrination and Propaganda in Communist Romania: An Overview of the General Patterns of Organization and Evolution Over Time
Chapter 4: The Ideological Worker: An Overview of its Profiles and Functions in the Context of the Romanian System
Chapter 5: The Ideological Turn in Higher Education: Further Insights from the Romanian Case
Part III: Evolving Frameworks of Analysis and Emerging Research Agendas
Chapter 6: A Failure of Institutionalization: A Key Insight from the Case Study and the Challenges of its External Validity
Chapter 7: Research Directions in the Study of Indoctrination and its Institutionalization
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Paul Dragos Aligica is professor of Political Science at the University of Bucharest and a
senior research fellow in the
F. A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics and Economics at the Mercatus Center, George Mason University.
Simona Preda received her Ph.D in History from the University of Bucharest in 2011, and MA in History of Ideas from the University of Bucharest in 2006. She is the author and co-author of five books on Romanian history in the context of modernization of Eastern Europe and on Communist education and propaganda.
