From Post-Communist to Uncivil Society in Macedonia

Marković, Nenad

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“…Those who are familiar with interest groups often view their activities negatively. Interest groups are seen as doing the bidding of political parties and having done little to close the wide distance between the main ethnic communities (Markovic, ).…”

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Interest groups in Macedonia: Growing pains in a strong party state

Cekik

Hristova

2018

Journal of Public Affairs

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This article examines the development of the interest group system in Macedonia since independence and the extent to which it has been able to exert any influence in the political arena. We show how security issues, slow economic development, and democratic deficits have impeded the development of an extensive interest group system able to compete freely in national politics. This has resulted in Macedonia having a bifurcated interest group system with influential power elites but low participation by citizens in formal interest groups. Despite this, there have been some diversification of the group system, restructuring of exiting associations, professionalization, and increased ability, especially that of citizens and social movements, to influence national politics. | THE FUNDAMENTAL CHARACTERISTICS OF MACEDONIA'S INTEREST GROUP SYSTEMAs a political system with a long history of authoritarian rule and a short experience with democracy, Macedonia's interest group system

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Interest groups in Macedonia: Growing pains in a strong party state

Cekik

Hristova

2018

Journal of Public Affairs

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“…Prvo Arhitektonsko Vostanie] on 28 March 2009. More on the local activism in regards to "Skopje 2014" in Nedelkovska (2012), Marković (2013), Poposki and Todorova (2016), Véron (2016), Dimitrova (2017), Trajanovski (2018), and Mojanchevska (2018). community.…”

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“Skopje 2014” Reappraised: Debating a Memory Project in North Macedonia

Trajanovski

2020

Europeanisation and Memory Politics in the Western Balkans

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The "Skopje 2014 project", an umbrella term covering the 137 memorial objects erected in North Macedonia's capital city of Skopje in the course of the last decade, has provoked a massive debate within the domestic public. While envisioned to mirror the country's Euro-Atlantic integrational agenda, the "project" was predominantly recognised as a fragmentation manifesto in inter-and intra-ethnic terms. This chapter examines the Macedonian public debate over the "project", mapping three particular phases of the discursive development : (1) before, (2) after the 2016-2017 governmental change and (3) in the wake of the recent Greco-Macedonian and Bulgarian-Macedonian bilateral agreements. The chapter reviews the corpus of written materials on "Skopje 2014", tracing the scopes of the public debates, the major discursive agents, as well as the critical loci of contestations and politicisation.

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How Elected Governments Make Democracies Backslide: The Case of North Macedonia

Sotiropoulos

2023

New Perspectives on South-East Europe

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From Post-Communist to Uncivil Society in Macedonia

Cited by 3 publications

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Interest groups in Macedonia: Growing pains in a strong party state

Interest groups in Macedonia: Growing pains in a strong party state

“Skopje 2014” Reappraised: Debating a Memory Project in North Macedonia

How Elected Governments Make Democracies Backslide: The Case of North Macedonia

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