The role of political parties in Serbian democratic consolidation process

Abstract

This paper examines what role political parties are playing in the democracy consolidation process and their contribution to the stage of completing and deepening democracy in Serbia. Analyzing the degree of party and party system institutionalization, inter-party democratic relations and partocratic tendencies in Serbian society, the author points to political parties as one of the main culprits for a slow increase of Serbian political institutions democratic capacities.

U članku se razmatra kakvu ulogu u procesu konsolidacije demokratije imaju političke partije i kakav je njihov doprinos u fazama ispunjenja i produbljivanja demokratije u Srbiji. Analizirajući stepen institucionalizovanosti partija i partijskog sistema, unutarpartijske demokratske odnose i razvoj partokratskih tendencija u srpskom društvu autor ukazuje na srpske partije kao jednog od glavnih krivaca za sporo uvećanje demokratskih kapaciteta političkih institucija u Srbiji.