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The Philosophy of Pluralism in the Neo-Albanians Development Circumstances of the 1930s Koti, Isidor
Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences Vol. 3 No. 1 (2012): January 2012
Publisher : Richtmann Publishing

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The work draws attention on the treatment of educational with pluralism, evaluating it firstly as a solution to theAlbanian problems, analyzing educational issue connected with pluralism, making evident the Neo-Albanian views as questionsand ancient responses, as well as the state and its role on the development of pluralist institutions. Generally defined, the termpluralism states institutional forms for political power (force) distribution. In order to analyze the mentioned phenomenon, itmeans to examine the power or the distributed authority in society. Very often the term pluralism is used to signify any situationwhere there are no political, ideological, cultural and ethnic ruling groups. We mean that a certain situation is characterized bythe competition existing between elites or interested groups and the pluralist society allow this competition to be freelydeveloped. In the Albanian development circumstances of the 1930s, Neo-Albanians chose the pluralism of opinions, whichwere introduced in that time publications, especially in the “Albanian Attempt” magazine. We could conclude that the societies,which have a stable economic development, have developed the values and the appropriate structures connected withindustrialization, such as the efficiency, rationalism, re-investments and benefit; all these create the basis for the increasing rateof the integration of social groups on the basis of pluralism as a political solution. Otherwise, the Albanian society of the 21stcentury has not secured yet these stable economic developments, the values and structures connected with it and also becauseof the fragility are the democratic system and political pluralism.
International Norms and Albania after Communism System Koti, Isidor
Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences Vol. 3 No. 8 (2012): Special Issue
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This article seeks to uncover the impact of the EU in the Albanian political transformations. Approaching the EU impact onAlbanian political reforms as a process of country’s socialization to the norms institutionalised in the European environment, this studydwells on both the external and domestic factors that determine the mechanisms of norm assertion in the domestic area. The first partspecifies the set of external conditions and the intervening domestic variables that induce a logic of consequentiality or appropriatenessin domestic change. The article proceeds to discuss the phenomena of European nannies to European neo-democracies. Finally, thestudy of the process of democratization in Albania illustrates the extreme case of a wider post-communist phenomenon: the Impact ofEU is translated into a consequential logic of using the democratic rhetoric and adopting democratic institutions, which are used andabused by political actors loaded with the legacies bequeathed to them by the ancient regime. This article suggests that Albaniandemocratisation could have a different trajectory without the presence of the EU pushing for and directing reforms. Messages in the formof the EU reports, evaluations and critiques, which determine the progress in the contractual relations between EU and Albania, havebecame the signposts of change to the extent that they are the epicentre around which achievements and future challenges are debatedand decided upon.