Srbija u vreme i posle Miloševica
Serbia During and After Milosevic

Summary/Abstract: Classification of Miloševic’s regime as authoritarian, and Ðindic’s government as democratic represents a prevailing oversimplification that misses out the nature and development of democracy in Serbia. The author argues that Miloševic’s regime was a unconsolidated form of democracy because the opposition and elections mattered a great deal in it. Still, it never became a consolidated democracy but rather evolved as a combination of authoritarian and democratic elements. In the second part of the article, the author discusses the first post-Miloševic government headed by Ðindic, concluding that it had also failed in strengthening of institutions, but that this failure, in difference, was due to a misunderstanding of the meaning of economic reforms. This, however, still does not justify the use of authoritarian means.

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