Introduction: (De)democratisation in Slovenia and Montenegro: Comparing the Quality of Democracy

Autor: Komar, Olivera, Novak, Meta
Rok vydání: 2020
Předmět:
Politikwissenschaft
Political science
democratic backsliding
European Social Survey (ESS) Round 9 Data file edition 1.1
ZA4800: European Values Study 2008: Integrated Dataset (EVS 2008)
ZA7500: European Values Study 2018: Integrated Dataset (EVS 2018)
politische Willensbildung
politische Soziologie
politische Kultur
Political Process
Elections
Political Sociology
Political Culture
Demokratisierung
Demokratie
Qualität
postsozialistisches Land
Slowenien
Montenegro
Vergleich
vergleichende Forschung
European Social Survey
Eurobarometer
EVS
Parteiensystem
Interessengruppe
Verteidigungspolitik
Europäisierung
Sozialpolitik
democratization
democracy
quality
post-socialist country
Slovenia
comparison
comparative research
party system
pressure group
defense policy
Europeanization
social policy
10500
Zdroj: Politics in Central Europe, 16, 3, 569-592, Central European Policies compared with other regions
Druh dokumentu: Zeitschriftenartikel<br />journal article
ISSN: 1801-3422
DOI: 10.2478/pce-2020-0026
Popis: This paper creates a framework for the comparison of two similar and yet different democratisation cases - Slovenia and Montenegro. The two countries have obvious similarities: their geography and small population, as well as their common socialist Yugoslav heritage and common aspirations to join international organisations, most importantly the European Union. However, while Slovenia went through the democratisation process rather smoothly, Montenegro took the longer road, struggling for more than a decade to regain its independence and complete its transition. We take into account different internal and external factors in these two cases such as the year of independence and of joining NATO, the political and electoral system, ethnic homogeneity, the viability of civil society, EU integration status, economic development and the presence of war in each territory in order to identify and describe those factors that contributed to the success of democratisation in different areas: the party system, the interest groups system, the defence system, Europeanisation and social policy. We find that the democratisation process in these countries produced different results in terms of quality. Various objective measures of the quality of democracy score Slovenia higher compared to Montenegro, while public opinion data shows, in general, greater satisfaction with the political system and greater trust in political institutions in Montenegro than in Slovenia.
Databáze: SSOAR – Social Science Open Access Repository
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