Competitive authoritarianism and popular protest: Evidence from Serbia under Milosevic
Abstract
This article explores the relationship between competitive authoritarianism and popular protest. Building upon comparative regime analysis and social movement research, it argues that this hybrid regime type facilitates popular protest by providing opposition forces with considerable institutional resources to organize themselves and confront regime elites, along with grievances that provide strong incentives for popular challenges. In turn, popular protest may trigger regime crisis and extract important concessions from regime incumbents. In the long run, popular politics strongly shapes the interests, identities and capacities of regime elites and opposition forces, as well as the regime's formal and/or informal institutions, and may lead to government change and/or regime change. Evidence is provided from Serbia under Miloevi, which experienced massive opposition protest campaigns in 1991, 1992, 1996-1997, 1999 and 2000, which resulted in regime change.
Keywords:
Competitive authoritarianism / popular protest / mobilization / regime change / post-communismSource:
International Political Science Review, 2016, 37, 1, 36-50Publisher:
- Sage Publications Ltd, London
Funding / projects:
- Serbia’s political identity in the regional and global context (RS-179076)
- Open Society Foundation's Academic Fellowship Program
DOI: 10.1177/0192512114535450
ISSN: 0192-5121
WoS: 000367724700003
Scopus: 2-s2.0-84952674001
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FPNTY - JOUR AU - Vladisavljević, Nebojša PY - 2016 UR - http://rfpn.fpn.bg.ac.rs/handle/123456789/552 AB - This article explores the relationship between competitive authoritarianism and popular protest. Building upon comparative regime analysis and social movement research, it argues that this hybrid regime type facilitates popular protest by providing opposition forces with considerable institutional resources to organize themselves and confront regime elites, along with grievances that provide strong incentives for popular challenges. In turn, popular protest may trigger regime crisis and extract important concessions from regime incumbents. In the long run, popular politics strongly shapes the interests, identities and capacities of regime elites and opposition forces, as well as the regime's formal and/or informal institutions, and may lead to government change and/or regime change. Evidence is provided from Serbia under Miloevi, which experienced massive opposition protest campaigns in 1991, 1992, 1996-1997, 1999 and 2000, which resulted in regime change. PB - Sage Publications Ltd, London T2 - International Political Science Review T1 - Competitive authoritarianism and popular protest: Evidence from Serbia under Milosevic EP - 50 IS - 1 SP - 36 VL - 37 DO - 10.1177/0192512114535450 ER -
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Vladisavljević, N.. (2016). Competitive authoritarianism and popular protest: Evidence from Serbia under Milosevic. in International Political Science Review Sage Publications Ltd, London., 37(1), 36-50. https://doi.org/10.1177/0192512114535450
Vladisavljević N. Competitive authoritarianism and popular protest: Evidence from Serbia under Milosevic. in International Political Science Review. 2016;37(1):36-50. doi:10.1177/0192512114535450 .
Vladisavljević, Nebojša, "Competitive authoritarianism and popular protest: Evidence from Serbia under Milosevic" in International Political Science Review, 37, no. 1 (2016):36-50, https://doi.org/10.1177/0192512114535450 . .