{"id":17032,"date":"2018-08-16T10:44:46","date_gmt":"2018-08-16T09:44:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/idese.community\/?p=17032"},"modified":"2025-02-24T20:44:25","modified_gmt":"2025-02-24T18:44:25","slug":"overcoming-the-democratisation-deficit-in-the-western-balkans-a-road-to-nowhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idese.community\/index.php\/overcoming-the-democratisation-deficit-in-the-western-balkans-a-road-to-nowhere\/","title":{"rendered":"Overcoming the Democratisation Deficit in the Western Balkans: A Road to (No)Where?"},"content":{"rendered":"

[vc_row css_animation=”” row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”full_width” angled_section=”no” text_align=”left” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern”][vc_column][vc_column_text]\"\"The internal weaknesses of the process of democratisation in the Western Balkans ensue from reinforcing a system where (ethno)politics and (ethno)political entrepreneurs use all available strategies to deprive citizens of any political agency, thus working towards obedient democracies while keeping real political power within closed circles. The conscious deepening of differences, maintaining negative tensions and instrumentalising \u2013 predominantly ethnic \u2013 identities for political or other particular purposes are some of the crucial features of (ethno)politics in the Western Balkans.[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”12″][vc_column_text]The promise of Europeanisation is losing its ability to mobilise citizens as it faces a two-fold challenge:<\/p>\n

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  1. No Push \u2013 while it is clear that progress in the accession process
    \nis extremely slow, even those steps which have been completed with success
    \nare left without meaningful recognition that could revive the ambition to join the EU;<\/li>\n
  2. No Pull \u2013 The support of political leaders displaying all the characteristics of illiberal
    \nand even authoritarian rule is maintained for the sake of stability in the region.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    [\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”12″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_column][\/vc_column][vc_row css_animation=”” row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”full_width” angled_section=”no” text_align=”left” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern”][vc_column][vc_column_text]Whole study in English can be found\u00a0here<\/a>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    [vc_row css_animation=”” row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”full_width” angled_section=”no” text_align=”left” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern”][vc_column][vc_column_text]The internal weaknesses of the process of democratisation in the Western Balkans ensue from reinforcing a system where (ethno)politics and (ethno)political entrepreneurs use all available strategies to deprive citizens of any political agency, thus working towards obedient democracies…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":17036,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-publications"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/idese.community\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/idese.community\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/idese.community\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idese.community\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idese.community\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17032"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/idese.community\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17215,"href":"https:\/\/idese.community\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17032\/revisions\/17215"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idese.community\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/idese.community\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idese.community\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idese.community\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}