EU Enlargement and State Capture in the Western Balkans

Vachudová, Milada Anna

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-91412-1_4

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“…The rise of ethno-nationalist parties and leaders across the planet has been a defining feature of the past two decades (Manners, 2021: 174). Ethno-nationalists are rent seeking elites who use populist, ethnic, and nationalist appeals to legitimise their concentration of power (Vachudova, 2019a(Vachudova, : 64, 2019b. More specifically ethno-nationalists such as Putin, Trump, and Johnson practice 'sadopopulism' in making electoral promises they have no intention of delivering, instead their lack of policies make the suffering of their popular constituency even worse (Snyder, 2018).…”

Section: Ethno-nationalist Irresiliencementioning

confidence: 99%

Achieving European Communion in the Planetary Organic Crisis: How Dominance and Differentiation affects the sharing of Genuine Democracy

Manners¹

2023

SSRN Journal

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Section: Ethno-nationalist Irresiliencementioning

confidence: 99%

Achieving European Communion in the Planetary Organic Crisis: How Dominance and Differentiation affects the sharing of Genuine Democracy

Manners¹

2023

SSRN Journal

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“…The problems with Europeanisation can be, however, attributed largely to a lack of reforms in the Western Balkan countries (Elbasani -Šabić 2018;Vučković -Đorđević 2019). Since there is literature discussing the particular effects of the 'balkanised Europeanisation' on the increasing state capture (Richter -Wunsch 2020;Vachudova 2018) and the setting of illiberal patterns of governance (Stojarová 2020), in our study we will focus on the role of domestic actors and institutions as (at least potential) promoters of further Europeanisation and on examining their disappointing performance in this field.…”

Section: Structure Agency and The Europeanisation Of Bosnia And Herze...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Serious about Integration or Political Posturing? Political Elites and their Impact on Half-hearted Europeanisation in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Burianová

Hloušek

2022

Politics in Central Europe

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This paper deals with the sluggish Europeanisation efforts of the current political elites of Bosnia and Herzegovina. A typical explanation for the lack of progress would be the complex structure of consociational democracy of the specific Bosnian confederation. The authors, however, claim that the structural obstacles could have been bypassed given the real will of political elites of all three nations to cooperate. The authors examine the role of the structure of the peculiar political system in comparison with the influence of the agency of Bosnian elites on the integration process. The empirical analysis focuses on the situation after the general elections in 2018. The authors discuss the contrast between the official declarations of consistent support for a European future with the real political performance of the various Bosnian party elites. These elites often misuse the institutional settings of the political system to block reforms. They also prefer the politics of obstruction to cement their leading positions within their constituent nations. More than a quarter century after the Dayton Peace Treaty and adoption of the Constitution, the lack of genuine intrinsic motivation to pursue Europeanisation has remained the main reason for the reluctant rapprochement of Bosnia to the European Union.

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“…Izveštaj Freedom Housea 5 za 2020. godinu Srbiju je označio kao delimično slobodnu zemlju, a V-dem izveštaj o demokratiji ukazao na značajno demokratije u Srbiji tokom protekle decenije (Maerz and Lindberg, 2021). Iako je ovaj fenomen bio prisutan tokom 1990-ih, svedoci smo njegove aktualizacije i ekstremizacije poslednjih godina (Richter & Wunsch, 2020;Pudar Draško et al, 2019;Vachudova, 2019). Autoritarni populizam prenaglašava nemoć institucija i naglašava potrebu za efikasnim posrednikom -moćnom klijentelističkom mrežom vladajuće stranke.…”

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Possibility of non-institutional political participation within the non-responsive system of Serbia: The impact of (dis)trust and internal political efficiency

Fiket

Draško

2021

Sociologija

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Starting from the findings of previous studies, whose results speak of the distrust of Serbian citizens in political institutions and political actors, low turnout and general passivity and apathy of citizens, the authors deal with the understanding of non-institutional political participation in Serbia. The paper starts from the assumption that the stated indicators pointing to the withdrawal of Serbian citizens from political life do not necessarily represent part of the same phenomenon. Namely, the authors believe that it is necessary to distinguish between the assumptions of institutional and non-institutional civic participation. On the one hand, the authors start from the thesis that high trust in institutions can actually negatively affect the need of citizens to mobilize in order to influence institutions. At the same time, citizens may be inclined to participate in political life through non-institutional channels if they posses a developed sense of internal political efficiency, which is not necessary related to the responsiveness of the political system.

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EU Enlargement and State Capture in the Western Balkans

Cited by 30 publications

References 34 publications

Achieving European Communion in the Planetary Organic Crisis: How Dominance and Differentiation affects the sharing of Genuine Democracy

Achieving European Communion in the Planetary Organic Crisis: How Dominance and Differentiation affects the sharing of Genuine Democracy

Serious about Integration or Political Posturing? Political Elites and their Impact on Half-hearted Europeanisation in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Possibility of non-institutional political participation within the non-responsive system of Serbia: The impact of (dis)trust and internal political efficiency

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