Participarea femeilor din parlamentul României la procesul decizional (2004-2008) și impactul discursului lor asupra deciziei politice (The Participation of Women from the Romanian Parliament to the Decision Making Process (2004-2008) and the Impact of Their Discourse On the Political Decision)

• Main Author: Monica PAVEL
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Editura Institutul European Iasi 2015-09-01
• Series: Polis: Revista de Stiinte Politice
• Subjects: political decision-making process; European accession; women’s representation; legislative project – adopted law; political decision actors.
• Online Access: http://revistapolis.ro/documente/revista/2015/Numarul_3(9)2015/editorial/17.%20Monica%20Pavel_Participarea%20femeilor.pdf

Women’s participation in political decision-making process was the main goal of any demand concerning female suffrage (to vote and to be elected). But what means political decision-making process? There are many theories which explain this concept: from the Game Theory to the Decision Theory and various types of Computational Agent Based Modeling. After a review of these theories, more interesting will be to follow the way of a legislative project to an adopted law in the Romanian Parliament, the way from theory to practice, the real manifestation of the concept of political decision-making. Our research is focused on women’s position in political decision-making in Romania along the 2004-2008 legislature. We opted for this legislature due to its importance derived from the necessity of adopting the EU accession legislation until 2007. This new legislation contained many provisions concerning the status of Romanian women. Our analysis starts by asking the following questions: Are the women in the Romanian Parliament involved in the political decision-making process? Can they influence the destiny of a law? In order to clarify those queries we analyze (quantitatively and qualitatively) the paper registrations, but also the video records of any legislative debate which took place in the mentioned legislatures.