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МОГУЋНОСТИ МОДЕРНЕ ЛЕГИТИМАЦИЈСКЕ ФОРМУЛЕ У СРБИЈИ
PROSPECTS FOR A MODERN LEGITIMATION FORMULA IN SERBIA

Author(s): Srećko Mihailović
Subject(s): Politics and law, Evaluation research
Published by: Српско социолошко друштво
Keywords: legitimation; etno-legitimation; economic legitimation; political legitimation; delegitimation;

Summary/Abstract: The author addresses the following questions: what are the current legitimation formulas in Serbia, who are their social carriers and what are the prospects for practicing a modem legitimation formula. Ethno-legitimation, as a specific neoreligious legitimation formula, has been produced by almost complete Serbian political elite, supported by a great number of citizens. Economic legitimation formula appears more as a crying demand of ever larger number of citizens than as an option with a real political representative. Political legitimation formula almost never appears in its integral form, by no means at the level of an organized political behavior, and rarely at individual level; it often appears as a negative formulation (as delegitimation, not a demand for legitimation), most often as a set of segmented demands (and types of behavior) by various social groups and aggregates; some of these demands are taken to the organizational level of politics, some appear in the civil society sphere, while others exist at the level of private actions.

  • Issue Year: 32/1998
  • Issue No: 3-4
  • Page Range: 275-293
  • Page Count: 19
  • Language: Serbian