Serbia and transition: In turmoil of political and economic oligarchy

This article deals with obstacles that Serbia faces during the process of delayed transition after the constitution of democratic government. The attention is focused on the role of the most important political and economic actors in the process, whose partial interests are identified as one of the...

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Main Author: Tripković Milan B.
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Serbian Sociological Association, Belgrade 2001-01-01
Series:Sociološki Pregled
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Online Access:http://scindeks-clanci.ceon.rs/data/pdf/0085-6320/2001/0085-63200103251T.pdf
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description This article deals with obstacles that Serbia faces during the process of delayed transition after the constitution of democratic government. The attention is focused on the role of the most important political and economic actors in the process, whose partial interests are identified as one of the largest obstructions to faster and better transformation of old structures. Emphasizing that the new authorities is still trapped by the old models of governance and accumulation of wealth, which led to greater social inequalities and dissolution of democratic potential of the society, author specially points to damaging consequences of fight for power inside the governing elite of DOS which begins to look like old communists' ideological and political clashes. The way out from such situation is long-term development of stable civil society, while in short-term framework, the emphasis is put on strengthening of regulated political and economic competition, and strengthening of position of critical public opinion, in which foreign actors ought to take role. The first step would have to be to oblige political actors to check the consequences if their policies in front of the voters more frequently.
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spelling doaj.art-a662ac3f3cf142639c2bd305c607b5dc2022-12-21T23:22:29ZengSerbian Sociological Association, BelgradeSociološki Pregled0085-63202560-48802001-01-01353-425126010.5937/socpreg0103251T0085-63200103251TSerbia and transition: In turmoil of political and economic oligarchyTripković Milan B.0University of Novi Sad, Faculty of Philosophy, Novi Sad, SerbiaThis article deals with obstacles that Serbia faces during the process of delayed transition after the constitution of democratic government. The attention is focused on the role of the most important political and economic actors in the process, whose partial interests are identified as one of the largest obstructions to faster and better transformation of old structures. Emphasizing that the new authorities is still trapped by the old models of governance and accumulation of wealth, which led to greater social inequalities and dissolution of democratic potential of the society, author specially points to damaging consequences of fight for power inside the governing elite of DOS which begins to look like old communists' ideological and political clashes. The way out from such situation is long-term development of stable civil society, while in short-term framework, the emphasis is put on strengthening of regulated political and economic competition, and strengthening of position of critical public opinion, in which foreign actors ought to take role. The first step would have to be to oblige political actors to check the consequences if their policies in front of the voters more frequently.http://scindeks-clanci.ceon.rs/data/pdf/0085-6320/2001/0085-63200103251T.pdfSerbiatransitionoligarchy
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title Serbia and transition: In turmoil of political and economic oligarchy
title_full Serbia and transition: In turmoil of political and economic oligarchy
title_fullStr Serbia and transition: In turmoil of political and economic oligarchy
title_full_unstemmed Serbia and transition: In turmoil of political and economic oligarchy
title_short Serbia and transition: In turmoil of political and economic oligarchy
title_sort serbia and transition in turmoil of political and economic oligarchy
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