Stan, Lavinia
Lavinia Stan is Professor in the Department of Political Science at St. Francis Xavier University. She has published extensively in the areas of religion and politics, and transitional justice in post-communist countries. Most of Dr. Stan’s work relates to Romania, but she has also written on Poland, Hungary and the former Soviet Union republics. A graduate of the University of Toronto and a political scientist by training, she is co-editor for Europe for the Women’s Studies International Forum, a reviewer for Choice, past chair of the Wildavsky Award Committee of the Religion and Politics section of the American Political Science Association, past collaborator with the East European Constitutional Review, and an expert with Directorate-General of Justice, Freedom and Security of the European Commission.
Research Interests: East European Politics, Romania, Democratization, Religion and politics, and Transitional justice
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| Institution: | St. Francis Xavier University |
| Fields of Expertise: | Communism and the Cold War Divide Democracy and Political Participation EU Foreign Policy and External Relations Law and Legal Issues |
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| Email: | lstan@stfx.ca |
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| Languages: | English, Romanian |
| Publications: | Stan, L. (2019). The Băsescu Case: Romania's Lustration Debate Revisited. Transitional Justice in Post-Communist Romania, 84-110. doi:10.1017/cbo9781139104227.006 Stan, L. and Zaharia, R. (2019), Romania: Political Developments and Data in 2018. European Journal of Political Research Political Data Yearbook, 58: 232-240. Nguyen-Thu, G., Abu-Lughod, L., Abu-Lughod, L., Ginsburg, F. D., Larkin, B., Ahmed, S., ... & Ang, I. (2019). Declassifying Nguyen Huy Thiep. In Television in Post-Reform Vietnam: Nation, Media, Market (Vol. 17, No. 1, pp. viii-x). Berkeley: University of California Press. Stan, L. (2019) The Puzzle of Non-Western Democracy, The European Legacy, 24:1 Turcescu L., Stan L. (2019) Conservative Orthodoxy in Romania. In: Ramet S. (eds) Orthodox Churches and Politics in Southeastern Europe. Palgrave Studies in Religion, Politics, and Policy. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. |
