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How Political Parties in Hybrid Regimes Help the Incumbent Maintain a Democratic Facade
(Sage Publications Inc, Thousand Oaks, 2020)
Why would a large incumbent party, that can by itself muster more than 45 per cent of electoral support, add seven insignificant political parties to its electoral list, thus providing them with a free ticket into the ...
Introduction: Contentious Politics and International Statebuilding in Southeast Europe
(Sage Publications Inc, Thousand Oaks, 2021)
This article belongs to a forthcoming special cluster, "Contention Politics and International Statebuilding in Southeast Europe" guest-edited by Nemanja Dzuverovic, Julia Rone and Tom Junes.
Abjection, materiality and ontological security: A study of the unfinished Church of Christ the Saviour in Pristina
(Sage Publications Ltd, London, 2020)
Ontological security scholarship in International Relations (IR) has predominantly focused on the importance of social environments for the healthy sense of self. However, material environments can also provide an important ...
Neoliberal co-optation, power relations and informality in the Balkan International Relations profession
(Sage Publications Ltd, London, 2020)
The article attempts to assess the importance of informal networks in achieving internationally recognised academic standards set in four Balkan countries by the reform of higher education institutions and the International ...
Qualifying the common pool problem in government spending: the role of positional externalities
(Springer, New York, 2020)
Under what circumstances do coalition partners tend to overspend? The so-far dominant explanation relies on the common pool resource theory-the more cabinet members there are, the higher the spending. While theoretically ...
Electoral Incentives and ‘Shape-Shifting’ Representation: Representative Claims of Ethnic Minority MPs in Kosovo and Serbia
(Routledge, 2020)
This article explores how members of parliament (MPs) from minority backgrounds in Serbia and Kosovo use institutional incentives to perform as elected minority representatives. In contrast to the previous research that ...
The political economy behind the gradual demise of democratic institutions in Serbia
(Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, 2020)
This paper aims to accomplish two goals. First, to present recent empirical evidence supporting the claim that Serbia is on the path towards embracing a more radical version of electoral authoritarianism. This is accomplished ...
Media Discourse and the Quality of Democracy in Serbia after Milošević
(Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, 2020)
The article examines the quality of democracy in Serbia via the quantitative analysis of media discourse. It reveals robust competition, participation and accountability in the first decade after regime change, followed ...
"Belgrade to Belgradians, Not Foreign Capitalists": International Statebuilding, Contentious Politics, and New Forms of Political Representation in Serbia
(Sage Publications Inc, Thousand Oaks, 2021)
This article belongs to a forthcoming special cluster, "Contention Politics and International Statebuilding in Southeast Europe" guest-edited by Nemanja Dzuverovic, Julia Rone and Tom Junes. One of the main criticisms ...
How many truths are there? Reconciliation and agonistic dialogue in the former Yugoslavia
(Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, 2020)
In this paper, we offer a possible interpretation of reconciliation in the former Yugoslav area. In a conflicting past and not-reconciled region, it is presumed that the truth should be the main pillar of reconciliation. ...