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Building democracy in the Yugoslav successor states, accomplishments, setbacks, and challenges since 1990, edited by Sabrina P. Ramet, Christine M. Hassenstab, and Ola Listhaug

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Building democracy in the Yugoslav successor states

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edited by Sabrina P. Ramet, Christine M. Hassenstab, and Ola Listhaug

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accomplishments, setbacks, and challenges since 1990

Building democracy in societies that have known only authoritarian rule for half a century is complicated. Taking the post-Yugoslav region as its case study, this volume shows how success with democratisation depends on various factors, including establishing the rule of law, the consolidation of free media, and society's acceptance of ethnic, religious and sexual minorities. Surveying the seven successor states, the authors argue that Slovenia is in a class by itself as the most successful, with Croatia and Serbia not far behind. The other states - Bosnia-Herzegovina, Macedonia, Montenegro, and Kosovo - are all struggling with problems of corruption, poverty, and unemployment. The authors treat the issue of values as a policy problem in its own right, debating the extent to which values have been transformed by changes in education and the media, how churches and women's organisations have entered into the policy debate, and whether governments have embraced a programme designed to effect changes in values.--, Provided by publisher

The challenge of democratization : an introduction / Sabrina P. Ramet -- Post-Yugoslav patterns of democratization / Florian Bieber -- The importance of tolerance : intolerance and its consequences in the Yugoslav successor states / Zachary T. Irwin -- Institutional trust in the Yugoslav successor states : a comparative approach / Karin Dyrstad and Ola Listhaug -- Political culture in the Yugoslav successor states / Andrej Kirbis and Sergej Flere -- The impact of the ICTY on democratization in the Yugoslav successor states / Jovana Mihajlovic Trbovc and Vladimir Petrovic -- Building democracy in Serbia : one step forward, three steps back / Jelena Subotic -- Building democracy in Croatia since 1990 / Dunja Melcic -- A durable oligarchy : Bosnia and Herzegovina's false postwar democratic transition / Kurt Bassuener -- Liberal democracy in Slovenia : from seventh heaven to the lobby of hell in only two decades / Alenka Krasovec and Sabrina P. Ramet -- Macedonia's post-Yugoslav reality : corruption, wiretapping, and stolen elections / Sabrina P. Ramet -- Building democracy in the western balkans : the case of Kosovo / Vladimir Dordevic -- The trajectory and parameters of democratic transition in Montenegro / Kenneth Morrison -- Building democracy in vojvodina / Angela Ilic -- Where does Europe end? : a conclusion / Christine M. Hassenstab