Electoral Accountability and Substantive Representation of National Minorities: The Case of Serbia
Abstract
This article examines under what conditions descriptive representatives of national minorities can also act as substantive representatives. It provides an empirical analysis of the behaviour of the representatives with ethnic minority backgrounds in the eighth National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia. Specifically, the article builds upon a content analysis of all interventions in the plenary parliamentary debates of the thirty-one minority MPs in the period between June 2008 and March 2012. The analysis suggests that having a minority ethnic background or political party registered as a political party of national minority are not sufficient conditions for substantive minority representation. The findings show that minority representatives elected on minority electoral lists engage more in substantive representation of minorities than descriptive representatives elected to parliament either as members of mainstream parties or through pre-electoral arrangements of minority parties w...ith mainstream political parties.
Keywords:
minority representation / ethnic parties / substantive representation / SerbiaSource:
East European Politics and Societies, 2016, 30, 4, 703-724Publisher:
- Sage Publications Inc, Thousand Oaks
DOI: 10.1177/0888325416650252
ISSN: 0888-3254
WoS: 000386914100002
Scopus: 2-s2.0-84992313200
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FPNTY - JOUR AU - Lončar, Jelena PY - 2016 UR - http://rfpn.fpn.bg.ac.rs/handle/123456789/581 AB - This article examines under what conditions descriptive representatives of national minorities can also act as substantive representatives. It provides an empirical analysis of the behaviour of the representatives with ethnic minority backgrounds in the eighth National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia. Specifically, the article builds upon a content analysis of all interventions in the plenary parliamentary debates of the thirty-one minority MPs in the period between June 2008 and March 2012. The analysis suggests that having a minority ethnic background or political party registered as a political party of national minority are not sufficient conditions for substantive minority representation. The findings show that minority representatives elected on minority electoral lists engage more in substantive representation of minorities than descriptive representatives elected to parliament either as members of mainstream parties or through pre-electoral arrangements of minority parties with mainstream political parties. PB - Sage Publications Inc, Thousand Oaks T2 - East European Politics and Societies T1 - Electoral Accountability and Substantive Representation of National Minorities: The Case of Serbia EP - 724 IS - 4 SP - 703 VL - 30 DO - 10.1177/0888325416650252 ER -
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Lončar, J.. (2016). Electoral Accountability and Substantive Representation of National Minorities: The Case of Serbia. in East European Politics and Societies Sage Publications Inc, Thousand Oaks., 30(4), 703-724. https://doi.org/10.1177/0888325416650252
Lončar J. Electoral Accountability and Substantive Representation of National Minorities: The Case of Serbia. in East European Politics and Societies. 2016;30(4):703-724. doi:10.1177/0888325416650252 .
Lončar, Jelena, "Electoral Accountability and Substantive Representation of National Minorities: The Case of Serbia" in East European Politics and Societies, 30, no. 4 (2016):703-724, https://doi.org/10.1177/0888325416650252 . .