Citizenship between the ‘image of the nation’ and ‘the image of politics’: the case of Montenegro

Dzankic, Jelena

doi:10.1080/14683857.2014.882075

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“…On the one hand, economic underdevelopment makes people insecure about their basic needs and, consequently, unable to evaluate the political authority properly. Ethnic belonging, on the other hand, presents a very significant line of identification, with increasing political salience in post-communist societies that experienced identity-based turmoil (Wylegała 2017;Džankić 2014;Harris 2012). Namely, ethnicity is a societal dimension derived from the historical legacy.…”

Section: The Formation Of Submissive Habitsmentioning

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“…The analysis includes two dummy variables representing Montenegrin and Serb ethnic belonging. These indicators capture the ethnic polarization in Montenegrin society, since the mere ethnic identification is proven to have political relevance (Džankić 2014) and continuously affect voting preferences in this country (Komar and Živković 2016;Komar 2013), even in an experimental setting (Stankov 2016).…”

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Unraveling the Black Mountain: Authoritarian Submission and Party Preference in Montenegro

Davidović

2020

Nationalities Papers

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Why do some post-communist countries regularly experience democratic overturn of power while others do not? This article analyzes the role of authoritarianism, adopting a novel approach concentrating on three separate dimensions (authoritarian submission, conventionalism, authoritarian aggression). Examining Montenegro, a country that has not changed its incumbent government since the breakdown of communism, the article argues that authoritarian submission, which stands for an obedient relationship to a political authority, is a relevant factor for the domination of a single party—the Democratic Party of Socialists (DPS). I test my assumptions using two surveys: the Montenegrin National Elections Study (2016) and a self-designed student survey. Notwithstanding the Montenegrin and Serb ethnic cleavage and economic preferences that remain significant for voting patterns, findings from both analyses confirm that submissive tendencies are important for voting behavior both for the national sample and for the educated young. This emphasizes the importance of psychological factors and the need to break submissive mindsets for successful democratic transformation in post-communist countries.

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Unraveling the Black Mountain: Authoritarian Submission and Party Preference in Montenegro

Davidović

2020

Nationalities Papers

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“…At the same time, the work of CITSEE has demonstrated to scholars of the former Yugoslavia, and of Balkan studies more generally, the importance of the citizenship dimension -that is, the formal question of who is included and who is not included both at the moment of state formation and on an ongoing basis as well as the reasons behind the grant or denial of citizenship status. This forms an important baseline for polity and demos building not only around issues such as voting, elections and political parties, but also for the purposes of immigration and refugee issues (Džankić, 2014;Krasniqi, 2012;Sardelić, 2015;Djordjević, 2015). It also has state security dimensions.…”

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The Governance of Citizenship Practices in the Post-Yugoslav States: The Impact of Europeanisation

Kacarska

Pantić

Shaw

2015

European Politics and Society

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Montenegro in Search of National and State Identity

Meleshkina¹,

Pomiguev²

2021

Bulletin of Perm University. Political Science

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The article analyzes the political development of Montenegro from the state- and nation-building perspective. This process takes place in the context of multi-ethnicity and disagreements about national and religious identity. The concept of center-peripheral polarity by S. Rokkan is used as the main analytical tool. It reveals the influence of relations between centers and the peripheries on state and nation-building. The authors examine the historical aspects of the national identity formation in Montenegro. The article focuses on the factors that complicate the process of state- and nation-building, including the institutional ones. The authors consider problems of different levels that hinder the implementation of a unified national policy in relation to all «non-Montenegrin» groups: the cleavages between Montenegrins and Serbs, between Montenegrins and other ethnic minorities, between the Montenegrin state and the Serbian Orthodox Church. The article analyzes the current stage of nation- and state-building, the peculiarities of the influence of external actors on this process. The results of the 2020 parliamentary elections, when the opposition came to power largely due to the active position of the Serbian Orthodox Church are also discussed. The authors come to a conclusion about the effectiveness of institutions that must provide political decision-making and consensus-building between different ethnic groups.

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Citizenship between the ‘image of the nation’ and ‘the image of politics’: the case of Montenegro

Cited by 4 publications

References 25 publications

Unraveling the Black Mountain: Authoritarian Submission and Party Preference in Montenegro

Unraveling the Black Mountain: Authoritarian Submission and Party Preference in Montenegro

The Governance of Citizenship Practices in the Post-Yugoslav States: The Impact of Europeanisation

Montenegro in Search of National and State Identity

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