{"id":17058,"date":"2019-02-22T13:16:37","date_gmt":"2019-02-22T12:16:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/idese.community\/?p=17058"},"modified":"2025-02-24T20:44:13","modified_gmt":"2025-02-24T18:44:13","slug":"political-culture-in-southeast-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idese.community\/index.php\/political-culture-in-southeast-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"Political Culture in Southeast Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row css_animation=&#8221;&#8221; row_type=&#8221;row&#8221; use_row_as_full_screen_section=&#8221;no&#8221; type=&#8221;full_width&#8221; angled_section=&#8221;no&#8221; text_align=&#8221;left&#8221; background_image_as_pattern=&#8221;without_pattern&#8221;][vc_column][vc_column_text]<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-17061 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/idese.community\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/11-300x222.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"222\" srcset=\"https:\/\/idese.community\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/11-300x222.jpg 300w, https:\/\/idese.community\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/11-768x569.jpg 768w, https:\/\/idese.community\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/11-700x518.jpg 700w, https:\/\/idese.community\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/11.jpg 909w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>The failure of the countries in Southeast Europe in the last three decades to initiate deep political and societal change that would lead them towards the goal of liberal democracy cannot be explained only by the reference to wars and internal conflicts or by external factors related to their peripheral position in Europe. We argue that political culture has to be taken into consideration to help explain the phenomenon of defective or phony democracy in the Western Balkans.[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=&#8221;12px&#8221;][vc_column_text]A more forceful expression of emancipatory values by youth, along with greater action capabilities provided by economic growth, could create a more democratic political culture and leaders that are more accountable within a generation. However, it is necessary to have knowledge and understand what we want to influence, because simply supporting \u203ademocracy\u2039 can go hand in hand with support for authoritarian values.[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=&#8221;12px&#8221;][vc_column_text]It has to be accepted and fully realized that political conditions and practices are not part of the inherited cultural repertoire, but are shaped by highly complex and intertwined structural and socio-economic processes. Then we will be able to respond with adequate (political and structural) propositions and solutions that might \u00bbexpand popular capacities\u00ab (in the words of Stuart Hall) and bring about the desired change in Southeast Europe.[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=&#8221;12px&#8221;][vc_column_text]Whole study in English can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/library.fes.de\/pdf-files\/bueros\/sarajevo\/15414.pdf\">here<\/a>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css_animation=&#8221;&#8221; row_type=&#8221;row&#8221; use_row_as_full_screen_section=&#8221;no&#8221; type=&#8221;full_width&#8221; angled_section=&#8221;no&#8221; text_align=&#8221;left&#8221; background_image_as_pattern=&#8221;without_pattern&#8221;][vc_column][vc_empty_space][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The failure of the countries in Southeast Europe in the last three decades to initiate deep political and societal change that would lead them towards the goal<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":17060,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17058","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\/17058","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=17058"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/idese.community\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17213,"href":"https:\/\/idese.community\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17058\/revisions\/17213"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idese.community\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/idese.community\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idese.community\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idese.community\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}