Representative claims and expected gains. Minority council elections and intra-ethnic competition in Serbia

Zuber, Christina Isabel; Muś, Jan

doi:10.1080/21599165.2012.757737

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“…23 Although minority rights are extensively guaranteed by the Constitution and various legislative acts, the Constitutional Court of Serbia has only rarely demonstrated the capacities and willingness to interpret and protect minority rights in an expansive manner. 24…”

Section:  the Minority Representation In The Nationalmentioning

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Parliamentary representation of national minorities in Serbia and Hungary: Mechanism for effective participation of minorities, or tool for political manipulation?

Korhecz¹

2022

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In multiethnic states, in which numerically large national, ethnic or linguistic minorities exist with a strong distinct identity, the principle of democracy requires that these groups have representatives in parliaments. However, in many multiethnic states the national-ethnic majority makes efforts to exclude or minimize the representation of minority national-ethnic groups in legislative bodies. Serbia and Hungary are nation states with relatively high percentage of citizens belonging to national-ethnic minorities, and with developed systems of the protection of minority rights. Both states enacted electoral laws facilitating the representation of national minorities in highest elected state bodies. This article describes, critically analyzes and compares the electoral rules and their practical implementation in both states, in order to answer the question whether these rules make it efficiently possible for national minorities to acquire proper representation in parliament. In order to answer this question, the results and experiences of the latest parliamentary elections - organized in 2022 in both states - will be elaborated as well.

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Section:  the Minority Representation In The Nationalmentioning

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Parliamentary representation of national minorities in Serbia and Hungary: Mechanism for effective participation of minorities, or tool for political manipulation?

Korhecz¹

2022

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“…The competencies of the National Minority Councils of Serbia and of the envisioned councils of nationalcultural autonomy in Romania are mostly of consenting or consultative nature, the possibility to initiate legislation being almost completely absent . Nevertheless, the Serbian councils obtained some important competencies with regard to the management of institutions in the domains of education, culture, and mass media, including the right to establish institutions and to appoint members to the leadership or boards of these ethnic institutions (Zuber-Mus 2013) . Even though some of these were removed by a Constitutional Court ruling (Beretka-Székely 2016), the Hungarian National Council (Magyar Nemzeti Tanács -MNT) was able to establish a strong control over the minority institutional network, including mass media in the vernacular language .…”

Section: The Issue Of Hungarian Self-government In Romania and Serbiamentioning

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Designing Legitimate Institutions for Non-Territorial Autonomies. Insights from the Debates within the Hungarian Communities of Serbia and Romania

Székely

2020

Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, European and Regional Studies

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In this paper, I examine some problematic aspects of minority self-governments, more specifically non-territorial cultural or national-cultural autonomy, through an analysis of the cases of the Hungarian minorities in Romania and Serbia. Although the Hungarian minority élites have put forward demands and plans for various forms of autonomy in both countries after 1990, only one particular form of minority self-government, namely national-cultural autonomy, proved to be acceptable for the majority, and eventually such a system was only implemented in Serbia but not in Romania. The focus in the article is more on the form than on the content of autonomy as the design of the institutions of self-government is of central importance also with regard to the power relations within the imagined political community of the minority. Despite the differences between the legal-institutional systems of minority protection of the two states, the patterns of minority élite behaviour were rather similar in the two analysed cases, the institutional form of the envisaged autonomy becoming a very divisive issue and exerting a strong impact on the internal political dynamics of the minorities.

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“…The Islamic Community of Serbia is based in Belgrade. The seat of the Islamic Community in Serbia is in Novi Pazar, which has close ties to leadership in Sarajevo (see Zuber and Mus´, 2013).…”

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Heritage interests: Americanism, Europeanism and Neo-Ottomanism

Luke

2018

Journal of Social Archaeology

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The district of Novi Pazar in southwestern Serbia offers an ideal case study to explore heritage and diplomacy. By analyzing processes of Europeanization and perceptions of Neo-Ottomanism in heritage practices, the article demonstrates how past, present, and future plans for South East Europe are embroiled in development trajectories that encompass partners from not only Europe and Turkey but also the United States, Asia, and the Middle East. The World Heritage Center at UNESCO and its partner organization, International Council on Monuments and Sites, hold firm commitments to the Christian identities of Stari Ras and Sopoćani and legacies of medieval Raška as well as the legacies of Imperial Rome. Yet, they operate in a vacuum, neglecting to consider the hyper-connectivity that is transforming not only the physical landscapes of the region and the revitalization of Sandžak and Islamic identities but also the corporate and diplomatic spheres of transnational and multidimensional interests.

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Representative claims and expected gains. Minority council elections and intra-ethnic competition in Serbia

Cited by 6 publications

References 11 publications

Parliamentary representation of national minorities in Serbia and Hungary: Mechanism for effective participation of minorities, or tool for political manipulation?

Parliamentary representation of national minorities in Serbia and Hungary: Mechanism for effective participation of minorities, or tool for political manipulation?

Designing Legitimate Institutions for Non-Territorial Autonomies. Insights from the Debates within the Hungarian Communities of Serbia and Romania

Heritage interests: Americanism, Europeanism and Neo-Ottomanism

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